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The driest places in Africa in October: ranked by rainfall

Esna tops the list at 0.06 mm in October. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Africa.

Top three in October: Esna (0.06 mm) , Girga (0.08 mm) , Mallawī (0.1 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 9.5 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Esna Egypt 0.06 mm 35 °C 21 °C 0 mm 0 340 h –
2 Girga Egypt 0.08 mm 34 °C 19 °C 0 mm 0 341 h –
3 Mallawī Egypt 0.1 mm 32 °C 19 °C 0 mm 0 340 h –
4 Assiut Egypt 0.2 mm 33 °C 18 °C 0 mm 0 340 h –
5 Sohag Egypt 0.2 mm 33 °C 19 °C 0 mm 0 341 h –
6 Minya Egypt 0.2 mm 31 °C 19 °C 0 mm 0 339 h –
7 Kom Ombo Egypt 0.3 mm 36 °C 21 °C 0 mm 0 340 h –
8 Al Fayyum Egypt 0.3 mm 31 °C 19 °C 0 mm 0 338 h –
9 6th of October City Egypt 0.5 mm 30 °C 17 °C 1 mm 0 336 h –
10 Cairo Egypt 0.9 mm 31 °C 18 °C 1 mm 0 334 h –
11 New Cairo Egypt 0.9 mm 29 °C 17 °C 1 mm 0 333 h –
12 Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān Egypt 1.1 mm 30 °C 17 °C 1 mm 0 332 h –
13 Suez Egypt 1.1 mm 30 °C 19 °C 1 mm 0 336 h –
14 Kandahār Afghanistan 1.2 mm 27 °C 11 °C 1 mm 0 337 h –
15 Mossamedes Angola 1.4 mm 26 °C 18 °C 1 mm 0 366 h 21 °C
16 Zagazig Egypt 1.6 mm 31 °C 18 °C 2 mm 0 329 h –
17 Ismailia Egypt 1.7 mm 30 °C 18 °C 2 mm 0 325 h –
18 Herāt Afghanistan 2.1 mm 24 °C 8.1 °C 2 mm 1 333 h –
19 Hurghada Egypt 2.4 mm 30 °C 23 °C 2 mm 0 340 h 27 °C
20 Jamestown Saint Helena 2.9 mm 20 °C 19 °C 3 mm 1 340 h 20 °C
21 Khartoum Sudan 3.1 mm 38 °C 26 °C 3 mm 1 340 h –
22 Al Mansurah Egypt 3.2 mm 31 °C 18 °C 3 mm 1 332 h –
23 Kafr ash Shaykh Egypt 3.4 mm 30 °C 18 °C 3 mm 1 331 h –
24 Zinder Niger 3.5 mm 36 °C 22 °C 3 mm 1 350 h –
25 Damanhur Egypt 3.6 mm 30 °C 18 °C 4 mm 1 330 h –
26 Dodoma Tanzania 3.7 mm 31 °C 18 °C 4 mm 1 362 h –
27 Port Said Egypt 3.9 mm 27 °C 20 °C 4 mm 1 334 h 26 °C
28 El Fasher Sudan 3.9 mm 35 °C 22 °C 4 mm 1 354 h –
29 Ouargla Algeria 4.2 mm 29 °C 17 °C 4 mm 1 326 h –
30 Kassala Sudan 4.2 mm 38 °C 25 °C 4 mm 1 340 h –
31 Al Maţarīyah Egypt 4.3 mm 28 °C 20 °C 4 mm 1 334 h 26 °C
32 Damietta Egypt 4.5 mm 27 °C 20 °C 4 mm 1 333 h 26 °C
33 El Oued Algeria 4.6 mm 28 °C 17 °C 5 mm 1 321 h –
34 Tahoua Niger 4.8 mm 37 °C 23 °C 5 mm 1 337 h –
35 Mazār-e Sharīf Afghanistan 4.8 mm 23 °C 11 °C 5 mm 1 319 h –
36 Marsá Maţrūḩ Egypt 5.2 mm 26 °C 19 °C 5 mm 1 322 h 25 °C
37 Arīsh Egypt 5.3 mm 27 °C 19 °C 5 mm 1 334 h 27 °C
38 Benguela Angola 5.4 mm 27 °C 22 °C 5 mm 2 358 h 24 °C
39 Singida Tanzania 5.8 mm 29 °C 16 °C 6 mm 1 359 h –
40 Alexandria Egypt 6.0 mm 27 °C 20 °C 6 mm 1 329 h 26 °C
41 Nouakchott Mauritania 6.2 mm 35 °C 24 °C 6 mm 1 342 h 25 °C
42 Tete Mozambique 6.6 mm 36 °C 23 °C 7 mm 1 357 h –
43 Idkū Egypt 6.8 mm 28 °C 20 °C 7 mm 2 330 h 26 °C
44 Laayoune Western Sahara 7.5 mm 28 °C 18 °C 8 mm 1 328 h 21 °C
45 Maradi Niger 7.9 mm 36 °C 22 °C 8 mm 2 340 h –
46 Niamey Niger 8.2 mm 37 °C 24 °C 8 mm 2 338 h –
47 Iringa Tanzania 8.7 mm 26 °C 14 °C 9 mm 2 365 h –
48 Wad Medani Sudan 8.9 mm 38 °C 26 °C 9 mm 3 338 h –
49 Lilongwe Malawi 9.4 mm 29 °C 18 °C 9 mm 1 368 h –
50 Jalālābād Afghanistan 9.6 mm 27 °C 18 °C 10 mm 2 320 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

September: top 5

  1. Assiut 0 mm
  2. Minya 0 mm
  3. Sohag 0 mm
  4. Mallawī 0 mm
  5. Girga 0 mm

Full ranking for September

November: top 5

  1. Maradi 0 mm
  2. El Fasher 0 mm
  3. Katsina 0.01 mm
  4. Gusau 0.01 mm
  5. Tahoua 0.01 mm

Full ranking for November

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in October, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Africa with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

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: ranking order, 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.