Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Burkina Faso.

ClimaNote covers 10 cities in Burkina Faso, starting with Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 32.9°C in Bobo-Dioulasso to 35.3°C in Ouahigouya, and yearly rainfall from 415 mm in Kaya to 859 mm in Banfora. The hottest city-month is April in Ouahigouya, with an average high of 40.2°C, and the coolest is August in Bobo-Dioulasso, at 28.0°C. By single month, the most rain falls in August in Bobo-Dioulasso, with 246 mm.

April is the warmest month in 7 cities and March in 2 (in 1 other city two or more months tie); August is the coolest in every city. August is the wettest month in every city; December is the driest in 9 cities (in 1 other city two or more months tie). Of these cities, all have a month with under 1 mm of rain; none has a month with an average high below 2.0°C or a month with more than 300 mm of rain.