Climate and average weather in Babanūsah

In Babanūsah, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Babanūsah typically varies from 19°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 42°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Babanūsah for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and mid December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
127 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
442 mm
80 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
456 m
11.3°N
Clearest
Dec
22% cloud

Babanūsah is town in western Sudan.

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

Babanūsah weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Babanūsah, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from March 5 to May 25, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Babanūsah is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.3 months, from July 13 to September 19, with daily high temperatures below 33°C. The coldest month of the year in Babanūsah is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in March.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3319
Feb3521
Mar3824
Apr4026
May3827
Jun3526
Jul3224
Aug3123
Sep3223
Oct3524
Nov3623
Dec3320

How hot and cold Babanūsah really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Babanūsah feels like about 40°C (around April 15). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 66 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331919
Feb35352121
Mar38382424
Apr40402626
May39382727
Jun38352526
Jul36322424
Aug35312323
Sep36322323
Oct36352424
Nov36362323
Dec33332020

Average hourly temperature in Babanūsah

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Babanūsah weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 19°0011.44.8
Feb35° / 21°0011.63.1
Mar38° / 24°10.311.91.2
Apr40° / 26°71.912.20.3
May38° / 27°317.812.50.9
Jun35° / 26°5812.912.72.1
Jul32° / 24°10617.712.63.2
Aug31° / 23°12718.812.43.6
Sep32° / 23°8113.612.13.5
Oct35° / 24°317.411.72.7
Nov36° / 23°00.111.52.9
Dec33° / 20°0011.34.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Babanūsah gets about 442 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.1 months, from around May 16 to Oct 17, peaking in August at about 62% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 127 mm over about 19 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 7 · 62%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr72
May248
Jun4413
Jul5718
Aug6019
Sep4614
Oct237
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Babanūsah collects about 442 mm of rain across 80 wet days — roughly 37 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 127 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 71% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17315810612781310
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr72
May318
Jun5813
Jul10618
Aug12719
Sep8114
Oct317
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Babanūsah, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 17 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 19. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 20 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 16. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 16 · 87%Aug 12 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb7921
Mar7921
Apr7426
May6832
Jun5842
Jul4753
Aug3961
Sep5446
Oct6931
Nov8416
Dec8614

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 11, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.47:367:00
Feb11.67:357:12
Mar11.97:217:16
Apr12.27:017:17
May12.56:497:21
Jun12.76:497:29
Jul12.66:567:33
Aug12.47:027:24
Sep12.17:017:05
Oct11.77:026:46
Nov11.57:106:38
Dec11.37:256:45

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Babanūsah averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.9 months, from around Oct 19 to May 17. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1824 daysAug 53 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr18Bright
May15Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul6Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov22Bright
Dec24Brilliant

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Babanūsah, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around May 4 to October 26. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to May 3, and November is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 94% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 25 · 100%Jun 22 · 0%oppressivedryhumidcomfortablemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar952110
Apr7191281
May2210263110
Jun11105632
Jul0013762
Aug0001189
Sep0011584
Oct225133031
Nov913421
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Babanūsah is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 8 to Apr 10. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 11 to Nov 7, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 8 · 15 km/hSep 19 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Babanūsah

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Babanūsah sees seasonal dust haze (March–June), heaviest in April.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Babanūsah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Babanūsah throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late January, Babanūsah is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Babanūsah for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 5.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.8fair
Feb3.1poor
Mar1.2poor
Apr0.3poor
May0.9poor
Jun2.1poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.5poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec4.5fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Babanūsah for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 8.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Babanūsah, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Babanūsah sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Babanūsah by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Babanūsah peaks around March 10 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 10UV 13Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Babanūsah

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan7.55.5
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Babanūsah by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Babanūsah is worst in March — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.1× the cleanest month (September, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateGoodModerateMar 1746 µg/m³Sep 911 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan32Moderate
Feb37Poor
Mar47Poor
Apr37Poor
May22Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug12Good
Sep11Good
Oct16Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Babanūsah is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Babanūsah banks about 6,946 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan490
Feb507
Mar652
Apr678
May695
Jun612
Jul560
Aug528
Sep535
Oct600
Nov574
Dec514

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Babanūsah receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 17 to May 30. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 17.3 kWhAug 55.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.2Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May6.5Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Babanūsah?

Babanūsah sits at 11.3°N, 27.8°E, 456 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Al Mijlad, 34 km away.

GhubayshAn NuhūdEl DaeinAbū ZabadAbyeiKadugli

Topography around Babanūsah

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Babanūsah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m around an average of 450 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 30 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 179 m.

The land around Babanūsah is covered by grassland (84%) within 3 km, grassland (92%) within 16 km, and grassland (92%) within 80 km.

3 km
12 m
16 km
30 m
80 km
179 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Al Mijlad 34 km · Al Fūlah 75 km · Ghubaysh 103 km · An Nuhūd 167 km · El Daein 183 km · Abū Zabad 194 km · Abyei 205 km · Kadugli 212 km

Sudan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / D / F / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 215% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,165
2025
Happiness
4.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2017
Homicide rate
5.1
per 100k, 2008
Road deaths
26.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 421

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 Babanūsah (11.3333°, 27.8°, elevation 456 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).