Kankan weather in August

In August, Kankan has daytime highs averaging 28 °C, nights around 21 °C, with 26 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

  1. Jan 26°
  2. Feb 28°
  3. Mar 30°
  4. Apr 30°
  5. May 28°
  6. Jun 26°
  7. Jul 25°
  8. Aug 24°
  9. Sep 24°
  10. Oct 25°
  11. Nov 26°
  12. Dec 25°

Daily temperatures through August

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Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 28.7 °C and lows bottom out at 21.2 °C.

How August 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.

DaysAvg highAvg lowChance of rain
1–10 August28.1 °C21.4 °C82 %
11–20 August27.8 °C21.3 °C84 %
21–31 August28.1 °C21.3 °C88 %
0%50%100%151015202530
Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in August. Wettest date over the 30 years: August 27, at 100 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure Typical August Share of the month
Days above 25 °C 29 of 31 94 %
Days above 30 °C 1.9 of 31 6 %
Days below 0 °C 0 of 31 0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain 26 of 31 85 %

Conditions in August

MeasureAverage
Mean temperature 24 °C
Record high (1991–2020) 32 °C
Record low (1991–2020) 19 °C
Relative humidity 86 %
Wind speed 12 km/h
Cloud cover 84 %

August compared with the months around it

Month Avg high Rainfall Cloud
June 30.7 °C 187 mm 71 %
July 28.7 °C 239 mm 79 %
August 28.0 °C 280 mm 84 %
September 29.0 °C 274 mm 77 %
October 30.3 °C 165 mm 67 %

See all twelve months for Kankan

Nearby destinations in August

Destination Avg high Wet days
Kankan 28 °C 26
Bamako 29 °C 24
Nzérékoré 26 °C 27
Kenema 27 °C 29

QuestionsAugust in Kankan, answered

How warm is Kankan in August?

Daily highs average 28 °C and nights fall to about 21 °C, a spread of 6.7 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes August the 12th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Kankan in August?

August averages 280 mm of rain, spread over about 26 of the 31 days — 85 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 84 % of the sky.

How long are the days in August?

Kankan averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in August. 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

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

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.

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