Climate averages 1991–2020

Thiès weather
in January.

A hot, very dry month: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 17.3°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 2.0 mm fewer than one day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Thiès · average highYear overview

January is a hot month in Thiès: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 17.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 2.0 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes January a very dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 21 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Thiès Nones (4 km away). In January its highs average 30.2°C, 1.1°C cooler than Thiès, with 2.0 mm of rain.

Among the 16 cities listed in Senegal, Thiès ranks 9th of 16 for the warmest January highs and joint 5th of 16 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 16 cities is 30.9°C; Thiès is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 32.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 2.0 mm to 1.4 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Thiès climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Thiès, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 31.3°C17.3°C17.3°C2.00.211.411 h
February 32.2°C18.0°C18.0°C1.40.211.712 h
March 33.3°C18.4°C18.4°C0.20.112.012 h
April 33.0°C18.7°C18.7°C00.012.512 h
May 33.1°C19.8°C19.8°C0.10.012.813 h
June 32.8°C21.8°C21.8°C2.40.813.013 h
July 31.9°C23.6°C23.6°C486.912.913 h
August 30.6°C24.1°C24.1°C14615.412.613 h
September 30.8°C24.0°C24.0°C12013.912.212 h
October 33.0°C23.7°C23.7°C354.811.812 h
November 34.2°C21.3°C21.3°C0.70.211.511 h
December 32.3°C18.7°C18.7°C1.40.411.311 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Thiès

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Thiès) is explained once on the Thiès year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Thiès Nones lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.