Climate and average weather in Tsévié

In Tsévié, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: early July to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tsévié typically varies from 23°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 35°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tsévié for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and early July to late August.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Jun
179 mm
Driest
Jan
26 mm
Rain / yr
1252 mm
226 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
97 m
6.4°N
Clearest
Dec
42% cloud

Tsévié is City of the prefecture of Zio in the Maritime region in Togo.

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

Tsévié 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 July to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tsévié stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in January.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3224
Feb3325
Mar3325
Apr3325
May3224
Jun3024
Jul2923
Aug2823
Sep2923
Oct3123
Nov3224
Dec3224

How hot and cold Tsévié 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, Tsévié feels like about 40°C (around March 5). About 318 days a year carry some heat stress, and 87 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36322424
Feb39332525
Mar40332525
Apr40332525
May38322424
Jun34302424
Jul32292323
Aug31282323
Sep33292323
Oct35312323
Nov38322424
Dec37322424

Average hourly temperature in Tsévié

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 February afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Tsévié 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
Jan32° / 24°267.111.74.2
Feb33° / 25°4210.811.83.3
Mar33° / 25°7516.9122.8
Apr33° / 25°10019.512.12.8
May32° / 24°16524.912.32.7
Jun30° / 24°1792612.43.1
Jul29° / 23°12722.112.33.9
Aug28° / 23°10720.512.24.1
Sep29° / 23°16925123.3
Oct31° / 23°15825.811.93.0
Nov32° / 24°7318.311.73.3
Dec32° / 24°329.311.64.2

Chance of rain

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

Tsévié gets about 1252 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.6 months, from around Apr 15 to Aug 1, peaking in June at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 179 mm over about 26 wet days; January is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 4 · 88%Dec 29 · 20%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb3811
Mar5517
Apr6420
May8025
Jun8626
Jul7222
Aug6721
Sep8325
Oct8226
Nov6118
Dec319

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tsévié collects about 1252 mm of rain across 226 wet days — roughly 104 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 179 mm, while January is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2642751001651791271071691587332
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan267
Feb4211
Mar7517
Apr10020
May16525
Jun17926
Jul12722
Aug10721
Sep16925
Oct15826
Nov7318
Dec329

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tsévié, 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 24 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around March 23. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 8 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 24 · 81%Aug 17 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb5545
Mar3862
Apr2971
May1981
Jun1288
Jul991
Aug892
Sep1387
Oct2971
Nov6040
Dec7525

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 3, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:155:54
Feb11.86:166:03
Mar12.06:066:03
Apr12.15:516:00
May12.35:436:00
Jun12.45:446:07
Jul12.35:516:11
Aug12.25:536:06
Sep12.05:485:51
Oct11.95:455:36
Nov11.75:495:31
Dec11.66:025:40

Sunny days

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

Tsévié averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Nov 2 to Mar 9. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2518 daysJul 150 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar5Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov9Mixed
Dec16Bright

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.

Tsévié is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is February, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 97% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 8% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 9 · 11%Feb 21 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan445105225
Feb11144548
Mar00003664
Apr00002971
May00003763
Jun00007723
Jul0004952
Aug0009910
Sep0001972
Oct00008020
Nov00015346
Dec11384938

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 Tsévié is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around Jun 17 to Sep 12. The windiest month is August, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 13 to Jan 30, with October the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 4 · 10 km/hOct 28 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Tsévié

In seasonPeak

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

Tsévié sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Tsévié

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Tsévié 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 times of year to visit Tsévié for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late August and again from late November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 4.5

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.8poor
May2.7poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.9fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov3.3poor
Dec4.2fair

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 Tsévié 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 29 · 7.3

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 Tsévié, 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.

Tsévié packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Tsévié sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tsévié

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 35 km away) is warmest in May at about 29°C and coldest in August near 24°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

22°24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr28Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul25Warm
Aug24Refreshing
Sep25Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov28Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Tsévié 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 Tsévié peaks around April 10 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highApr 10UV 13Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Tsévié

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 April 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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Tsévié 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 Tsévié is worst in January — around 111 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (August, 28 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 14109 µg/m³Aug 1228 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan111Unhealthy
Feb87Unhealthy
Mar49Poor
Apr48Poor
May37Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct46Poor
Nov52Poor
Dec99Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tsévié 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. Tsévié banks about 6,381 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan559
Feb535
Mar595
Apr563
May554
Jun498
Jul492
Aug483
Sep487
Oct527
Nov534
Dec556

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.

Tsévié receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Oct 23 to May 18. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 315.7 kWhAug 24.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Tsévié?

Tsévié sits at 6.4°N, 1.2°E, 97 m above sea level, in Togo. The nearest listed city is Dzodze, 32 km away.

DzodzeLoméAflaoTabligboVoganAnéhoAthiéméAkatsi

Topography around Tsévié

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tsévié has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 48 m around an average of 91 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 118 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 984 m.

The land around Tsévié is covered by shrubs (39%) and artificial surfaces (36%) within 3 km, trees (39%), shrubs (31%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and shrubs (25%), trees (24%) and water (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
48 m
16 km
118 m
80 km
984 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Dzodze 32 km · Lomé 33 km · Aflao 34 km · Tabligbo 36 km · Vogan 37 km · Aného 47 km · Athiémé 53 km · Akatsi 56 km

Togo travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,384
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
21%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
28.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 397
Religion
Christian 42%folk religion 37%Muslim 14%none 6%

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 Tsévié (6.4261°, 1.2133°, elevation 97 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).