Tiébo weather in May

In May, Tiébo sees average daytime highs of 37°C and overnight lows near 21°C, with 0 mm of rain across 0 wet days and about 12.7 hours of daylight. It is the 2nd-warmest and 11th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 37°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 70% of the time in May, and the air most often feels humid.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 30 min at the start of May to 12 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Tiébo's 3rd-clearest and 5th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Tiébo's year-round climate.

Daytime high
37°
2nd warmest
Overnight low
21°
7th coldest
Rainfall
0 mm
0 wet days
Daylight
12 h 42 min
6:41 AM – 7:21 PM
Cloud cover
27%
3rd clearest
Wind
13 km/h
5th windiest
Solar energy
7.35 kWh/m²
Travel score
2.1
out of 10

Tiébo is settlement in Senegal.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 37°C through the month.

A typical May day in Tiébo reaches about 37°C in the afternoon and slips back to 21°C overnight — a 16°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 34°C and 40°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs on par with April and about 1°C warmer than June.

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How May really feels in Tiébo

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in May is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Tiébo weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 2nd-warmest and 11th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan32° / 17°30.311.24.9
Feb34° / 19°10.211.53.8
Mar36° / 19°00.111.92.6
Apr37° / 20°0012.32.1
May37° / 21°0012.72.1
Jun36° / 23°61.312.82.7
Jul34° / 24°638.212.83.2
Aug32° / 25°15015.612.53.2
Sep32° / 24°12414.112.13.4
Oct35° / 23°294.211.73.0
Nov35° / 21°10.111.33.0
Dec33° / 18°20.311.14.3

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 70% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 11% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 19%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Tiébo gets around 0 mm of rain over 0 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 0% and peaks near 1% on the wettest days.

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Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels humid — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the humid band about 44% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 27% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
121393360
220383470
319383670
418363780
517353890
6163439100
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8143142121
9133043131
10122845141
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3116344910

Wind in May

Winds average 13 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 12 km/h on the calmest days to 14 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
114light breeze
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Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 30 min at the start of May to 12 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 18 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 6:47 AM to 6:38 AM, and sunset from 7:18 PM to 7:26 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.56:477:18
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Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 7.35 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 5.16 kWh/m² to a high of 7.36 kWh/m² in April across the year — May's 7.35 kWh/m² sits near the top of that range.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Tiébo

In seasonPeak

In May, Tiébo sits inside its dust season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Tiébo sees dust haze year-round, heaviest in June.

Dust
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Aug
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Oct
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Is May a good time to visit Tiébo?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

2.1
Sightseeing
11th-best month of the year
5.7
Beach & pool
9th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Tiébo.

What to pack for Tiébo in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Tiébo sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Tiébo in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 12 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Tiébo peaks around March 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 7 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 18UV 13Dec 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Air quality in Tiébo in May

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where May falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Tiébo is worst in February — around 104 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.8× the cleanest month (August, 37 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyFeb 8104 µg/m³Aug 1838 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan103Unhealthy
Feb104Unhealthy
Mar80Unhealthy
Apr60Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun74Unhealthy
Jul49Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep45Poor
Oct66Unhealthy
Nov69Unhealthy
Dec96Unhealthy
Location & terrain

Where is Tiébo?

Tiébo sits at 14.6°N, 16.2°W, 17 m above sea level, in Senegal. The nearest listed city is Diourbel, 2.0 km away.

Keur MédouneFatickMbakéGandiaye

Topography around Tiébo

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Tiébo.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tiébo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 30 m around an average of 11 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 43 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 123 m.

The land around Tiébo is covered by cropland (37%), artificial surfaces (31%) and grassland (27%) within 3 km, cropland (75%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (63%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
30 m
16 km
43 m
80 km
123 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
May weather nearby: Diourbel 2.0 km · Gossas Village 21 km · Bambey 25 km · Poukham Un 36 km · Keur Médoune 38 km · Fatick 38 km · Mbaké 39 km · Gandiaye 44 km

Senegal travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / D / E / K
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 36% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,955
2025
Happiness
4.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
27%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.3
per 100k, 2015
Road deaths
23.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 442
Religion
Muslim 97%Christian 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Tiébo (14.6333°, -16.2333°, elevation 17 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).