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Burkina Faso

2 cities in the atlas · 2 airports with scheduled flights

Official travel advice warns against all travel to Burkina Faso at present, so we do not offer trips there. This page gives its climate and geography only.

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Ruins of Loropéni · Photo: Rik Schuiling / TropCrop-TCS · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Ouagadougou
Currency: XOF; West African Franc
Local time: Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +226
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E

Facts

Burkina Faso in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Ouagadougou
Currency: West African Franc XOFToday's indicative rate: XOF 100 ≈ USD 0.171Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: FrenchSpoken: French and Mossi
Time zones: Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +226
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112ambulance17police18fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 24,074,580 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 274,200 km²
Internet domain: .bf
Land borders: Benin Côte d’Ivoire Ghana Mali Niger Togo

When to go

Climate across Burkina Faso

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Ouagadougou	32°	36°	39°	40°	38°	35°	32°	31°	31°	34°	34°	32°
Bobo-Dioulasso	34°	37°	38°	38°	35°	33°	30°	29°	29°	31°	33°	33°

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Burkina Faso is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Burkina Faso

All 2 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Burkina Faso

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Photographs

Burkina Faso in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Ouagadougou
Photo: The black photographer · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

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Travel advice

Official travel advice warns against all travel to Burkina Faso at present, so we do not offer trips there. This page gives its climate and geography only.

Read the official travel advice (UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Burkina Faso

2 cities in the atlas · 2 airports with scheduled flights

Official travel advice warns against all travel to Burkina Faso at present, so we do not offer trips there. This page gives its climate and geography only.

Read the official travel advice (UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Ask our visa desk