Climate averages 1991–2020
Tivaouane weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tivaouane: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 37 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Thiès (22 km away). In August its highs average 30.6°C, about as warm as Tivaouane, with 146 mm of rain.
Among the 16 cities listed in Senegal, Tivaouane ranks 9th of 16 for the warmest August highs and 4th of 16 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 16 cities is 30.7°C; Tivaouane is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 122 mm to 108 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Tivaouane climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.9°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 2.2 | 0.2 | 11.311 h |
| February | 30.4°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 1.5 | 0.2 | 11.612 h |
| March | 30.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.3°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.512 h |
| May | 30.6°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.813 h |
| June | 31.2°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 2.4 | 0.7 | 13.013 h |
| July | 31.0°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 40 | 6.0 | 12.913 h |
| August, selected | 30.3°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 122 | 13.8 | 12.613 h |
| September | 30.6°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 108 | 12.5 | 12.212 h |
| October | 32.4°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 28 | 4.4 | 11.812 h |
| November | 33.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 11.411 h |
| December | 31.1°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 1.7 | 0.5 | 11.311 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
August in nearby cities
- Thiès in AugustSenegal · 22 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 146 mm rain
- Thiès Nones in AugustSenegal · 25 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Rufisque in AugustSenegal · 56 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 25.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Mbour in AugustSenegal · 61 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 25.0°C · 154 mm rain
- Diourbel in AugustSenegal · 70 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.0°C · 150 mm rain
- Dakar in AugustSenegal · 73 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 25.6°C · 124 mm rain
- Louga in AugustSenegal · 98 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 24.4°C · 94 mm rain
- Mbaké in AugustSenegal · 99 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.8°C · 146 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tivaouane) is explained once on the Tivaouane year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.