Ségou climate

Name: Ségou
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Ségou is warmest in April, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. August is the wettest month (188 mm) and December the driest (0.01 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ségou averages 507 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Mali · population 205,787 · 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 April 40 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month December 0 mm
Wettest month August 188 mm
Least cloud February 28 % cloud
Hottest on record May 44 °C
Coldest on record January 11 °C

What to expectSégou through the year

Ségou has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 32 °C in January to 40 °C in April, a swing of 9.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 326 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 188 mm against 0 mm in December — 18,830 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.5 °C	1 mm	34 %
February	34.7 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
March	37.8 °C	1 mm	34 %
April	39.6 °C	5 mm	45 %
May	39.3 °C	16 mm	53 %
June	36.8 °C	37 mm	49 %
July	32.4 °C	124 mm	60 %
August	30.2 °C	188 mm	71 %
September	31.4 °C	113 mm	58 %
October	34.6 °C	21 mm	47 %
November	34.8 °C	under 1 mm	38 %
December	32.2 °C	under 1 mm	35 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.5 °C	17.5 °C	24.0 °C	37.7 °C	11.1 °C	31	23
February	34.7 °C	19.9 °C	26.8 °C	41.1 °C	12.1 °C	28	27
March	37.8 °C	23.1 °C	30.3 °C	42.0 °C	13.6 °C	31	31
April	39.6 °C	26.2 °C	32.9 °C	43.7 °C	20.2 °C	30	30
May	39.3 °C	27.5 °C	33.1 °C	44.2 °C	20.8 °C	31	31
June	36.8 °C	26.5 °C	31.2 °C	42.9 °C	22.4 °C	30	30
July	32.4 °C	24.2 °C	27.9 °C	39.7 °C	21.6 °C	31	26
August	30.2 °C	23.2 °C	26.3 °C	34.8 °C	20.9 °C	31	18
September	31.4 °C	23.5 °C	27.0 °C	38.9 °C	20.9 °C	30	24
October	34.6 °C	23.7 °C	28.8 °C	39.4 °C	17.9 °C	31	30
November	34.8 °C	20.9 °C	27.6 °C	38.1 °C	15.1 °C	30	30
December	32.2 °C	18.3 °C	24.7 °C	37.2 °C	12.6 °C	31	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	1 mm	0	11 h/day	34 %	21 %	15 km/h
February	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	17 %	15 km/h
March	1 mm	0	12 h/day	34 %	17 %	15 km/h
April	5 mm	1	12 h/day	45 %	27 %	15 km/h
May	16 mm	4	13 h/day	53 %	41 %	16 km/h
June	37 mm	8	13 h/day	49 %	55 %	16 km/h
July	124 mm	16	13 h/day	60 %	72 %	15 km/h
August	188 mm	19	13 h/day	71 %	81 %	14 km/h
September	113 mm	13	12 h/day	58 %	79 %	12 km/h
October	21 mm	4	12 h/day	47 %	59 %	12 km/h
November	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	38 %	31 %	13 km/h
December	under 1 mm	0	11 h/day	35 %	24 %	14 km/h

How Ségou compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Ségou	40 °C	18 °C	507 mm	364
Koutiala · Mali	39 °C	18 °C	682 mm	364
Bamako · Mali	39 °C	18 °C	773 mm	364
Sikasso · Mali	38 °C	18 °C	915 mm	363
Mopti · Mali	41 °C	17 °C	337 mm	364
Bobo-Dioulasso · Burkina Faso	38 °C	18 °C	816 mm	363

Where Ségou ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in April	14thof 50	40 °C
The warmest places in Africa in May	15thof 50	39 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	16thof 50	40 °C
The warmest places in Africa year-round	17thof 50	35 °C
The warmest places in Africa in November	20thof 50	35 °C
The warmest places in the world year-round	20thof 50	35 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ségou’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ségou?

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, April is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Ségou get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 326 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ségou?

August, averaging 188 mm over 19 days with rain. The driest month is December with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 507 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 Ségou 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
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.