Touba climate

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Touba is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 17 °C. August is the wettest month (145 mm) and April the driest (0.05 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Touba averages 369 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Senegal · population 1,120,824 · 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 38 °C
Coldest month January 17 °C
Driest month April 0 mm
Wettest month August 145 mm
Least cloud March 28 % cloud
Hottest on record April 45 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectTouba through the year

Touba has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 32 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 4.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 340 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 145 mm against 0 mm in April — 2,893 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	3 mm	43 %
February	33.7 °C	1 mm	38 %
March	36.1 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
April	37.6 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
May	37.7 °C	under 1 mm	29 %
June	36.2 °C	8 mm	39 %
July	33.8 °C	65 mm	59 %
August	31.8 °C	145 mm	74 %
September	31.8 °C	116 mm	66 %
October	34.8 °C	28 mm	45 %
November	35.3 °C	1 mm	49 %
December	32.6 °C	2 mm	49 %

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	17.2 °C	23.8 °C	38.7 °C	11.5 °C	31	23
February	33.7 °C	18.5 °C	25.4 °C	39.8 °C	13.0 °C	28	25
March	36.1 °C	19.5 °C	27.1 °C	42.5 °C	13.7 °C	31	31
April	37.6 °C	20.0 °C	28.0 °C	44.9 °C	14.7 °C	30	30
May	37.7 °C	20.8 °C	28.4 °C	44.2 °C	16.1 °C	31	31
June	36.2 °C	22.1 °C	28.4 °C	44.4 °C	17.2 °C	30	30
July	33.8 °C	23.5 °C	28.1 °C	43.3 °C	19.4 °C	31	30
August	31.8 °C	23.8 °C	27.3 °C	39.8 °C	21.6 °C	31	27
September	31.8 °C	23.7 °C	27.3 °C	38.8 °C	20.1 °C	30	26
October	34.8 °C	23.1 °C	28.4 °C	40.8 °C	17.4 °C	31	30
November	35.3 °C	20.9 °C	27.7 °C	40.5 °C	14.6 °C	30	30
December	32.6 °C	18.6 °C	25.0 °C	38.6 °C	12.4 °C	31	27

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	3 mm	0	11 h/day	43 %	26 %	18 km/h
February	1 mm	0	12 h/day	38 %	26 %	19 km/h
March	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	30 %	18 km/h
April	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	37 %	19 km/h
May	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	29 %	45 %	18 km/h
June	8 mm	1	13 h/day	39 %	60 %	18 km/h
July	65 mm	8	13 h/day	59 %	69 %	17 km/h
August	145 mm	15	13 h/day	74 %	79 %	15 km/h
September	116 mm	13	12 h/day	66 %	81 %	13 km/h
October	28 mm	4	12 h/day	45 %	65 %	13 km/h
November	1 mm	0	11 h/day	49 %	37 %	15 km/h
December	2 mm	0	11 h/day	49 %	29 %	17 km/h

How Touba 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
Touba	38 °C	17 °C	369 mm	365
Diourbel · Senegal	37 °C	18 °C	388 mm	365
Kaolack · Senegal	37 °C	18 °C	502 mm	365
Thiès · Senegal	34 °C	17 °C	355 mm	364
Thiès Nones · Senegal	33 °C	18 °C	355 mm	362
Mbour · Senegal	33 °C	18 °C	351 mm	364
Saint-Louis · Senegal	32 °C	18 °C	172 mm	338

Where Touba ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in April	13th of 50	0.05 mm
The driest places in the world in April	13th of 50	0.05 mm
The warmest places in Africa in November	15th of 50	35 °C
The warmest places in the world in November	17th of 50	35 °C
The driest places in Africa in May	20th of 50	0.3 mm
The warmest places in Africa in October	20th of 50	35 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Touba’s climate

When is the best time to visit Touba?

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

How hot does Touba get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 340 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Touba?

August, averaging 145 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is April with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 369 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 Touba 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: 14.862°, -15.875° (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.