Kayes climate

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Kayes is warmest in May, with average highs of 42 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. August is the wettest month (161 mm) and March the driest (0.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kayes averages 426 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Mali · population 194,716 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month May 42 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month March 0 mm
Wettest month August 161 mm
Least cloud March 28 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 11 °C

What to expectKayes through the year

Kayes has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 34 °C in January to 42 °C in May, a swing of 9.7 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 351 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 161 mm against 0 mm in March — 862 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.7 °C	under 1 mm	41 %
February	36.5 °C	under 1 mm	34 %
March	39.5 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
April	41.7 °C	under 1 mm	32 %
May	41.9 °C	5 mm	41 %
June	39.4 °C	23 mm	48 %
July	34.5 °C	103 mm	63 %
August	31.7 °C	161 mm	75 %
September	32.5 °C	105 mm	64 %
October	35.8 °C	26 mm	51 %
November	36.5 °C	1 mm	44 %
December	34.3 °C	1 mm	45 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	33.7 °C	19.2 °C	25.9 °C	40.3 °C	11.3 °C	31	29
February	36.5 °C	21.4 °C	28.6 °C	42.8 °C	14.5 °C	28	28
March	39.5 °C	24.0 °C	31.6 °C	44.4 °C	14.4 °C	31	31
April	41.7 °C	27.1 °C	34.5 °C	45.6 °C	21.2 °C	30	30
May	41.9 °C	29.5 °C	35.7 °C	46.1 °C	22.3 °C	31	31
June	39.4 °C	28.6 °C	33.8 °C	45.6 °C	23.8 °C	30	30
July	34.5 °C	25.9 °C	29.9 °C	43.1 °C	23.0 °C	31	30
August	31.7 °C	24.7 °C	27.9 °C	39.0 °C	22.4 °C	31	26
September	32.5 °C	24.8 °C	28.4 °C	38.8 °C	21.7 °C	30	27
October	35.8 °C	25.1 °C	30.1 °C	41.5 °C	17.5 °C	31	30
November	36.5 °C	22.1 °C	29.2 °C	40.4 °C	15.5 °C	30	30
December	34.3 °C	19.9 °C	26.7 °C	39.9 °C	14.3 °C	31	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	under 1 mm	0	11 h/day	41 %	19 %	15 km/h
February	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	34 %	15 %	15 km/h
March	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	14 %	15 km/h
April	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	32 %	16 %	15 km/h
May	5 mm	1	13 h/day	41 %	25 %	16 km/h
June	23 mm	4	13 h/day	48 %	45 %	18 km/h
July	103 mm	11	13 h/day	63 %	66 %	17 km/h
August	161 mm	15	13 h/day	75 %	77 %	15 km/h
September	105 mm	11	12 h/day	64 %	77 %	13 km/h
October	26 mm	4	12 h/day	51 %	60 %	12 km/h
November	1 mm	0	11 h/day	44 %	31 %	12 km/h
December	1 mm	0	11 h/day	45 %	22 %	14 km/h

Where Kayes ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in April	1st of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in Africa in May	1st of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	1st of 50	42 °C
The warmest places in Africa in March	2nd of 50	39 °C
The warmest places in Africa year-round	2nd of 50	37 °C
The warmest places in the world in March	2nd of 50	39 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Kayes.

QuestionsCommon questions about Kayes’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kayes?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, August, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, May is the warmest month and March the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kayes get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 42 °C. About 351 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kayes?

August, averaging 161 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is March with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 426 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Kayes rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

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
Data point: 14.448°, -11.444° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. 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.