Ouagadougou weather in December

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In December, Ouagadougou has daytime highs averaging 33 °C, nights around 18 °C, with 0 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

33.4°C Average high
18.2°C Average low
0days Wet days
0mm Rainfall
11h Daylight

Daily temperatures through December

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 34.9 °C and lows bottom out at 16.8 °C.

How December develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 December	34.1 °C	18.8 °C
11–20 December	33.5 °C	18.5 °C
21–31 December	32.7 °C	17.3 °C

Average highs fall from 34.1 °C early in December to 32.7 °C by the end of it.

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in December. Wettest date over the 30 years: December 1, at 0 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical December	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days above 30 °C	29 of 31	94 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0 of 31	0 %

Conditions in December

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	26 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	38 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	14 °C
Relative humidity	22 %
Wind speed	13 km/h
Cloud cover	27 %

Where Ouagadougou ranks in December

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in December	1stof 50	0 mm
The driest places in the world in December	1stof 50	0 mm
The warmest places in Africa in December	27thof 50	33 °C
The warmest places in the world in December	31stof 50	33 °C

December compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.8 °C	under 1 mm	27 %
February	35.7 °C	1 mm	27 %
October	34.4 °C	33 mm	44 %
November	35.5 °C	1 mm	33 %
December	33.4 °C	0 mm	27 %

See all twelve months for Ouagadougou

December is the 8th warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 1st for least cloud cover.
Days last about 11 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 15 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest December day on record since 1991 reached 38 °C, 4.1 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in December

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Ouagadougou	33 °C	0
Koudougou	33 °C	0

QuestionsDecember in Ouagadougou, answered

How warm is Ouagadougou in December?

Daily highs average 33 °C and nights fall to about 18 °C, a spread of 15 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes December the 11th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Ouagadougou in December?

December averages 0 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 27 % of the sky.

How long are the days in December?

Ouagadougou averages 11 hours between sunrise and sunset in December. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.