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When to go to N'Djamena
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When to go
What the averages say
No month in N'Djamena is both between 18°C and 32°C on average and under 150 mm of rain.
- Hot months (a mean high of 32°C or more): September to July.
- Wet months (150 mm of rain or more): August.
- Humid months (a high of 25°C or more with relative humidity of 70% or more): August and September.
- The warmest month is April (42°C) and the coolest August (31°C). The wettest is August (192 mm) and the driest January (0 mm); about 529 mm of rain falls in a year.
How these sentences are worded
Each sentence is written from the figures by fixed rules, and says no more than they do. Mild to warm: a mean daily high from 18°C up to 32°C. Hot: 32°C or more. Cool: 10°C up to 18°C. Cold: under 10°C. Dry: under 50 mm of rain in the month; wet: 150 mm or more. Humid: a high of 25°C or more with relative humidity of 70% or more. A month is described as good for going when it is mild to warm and not wet.
The year at a glance
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
- JanHot
- FebHot
- MarHot
- AprHot
- MayHot
- JunHot
- JulHot
- AugWet
- SeptHot
- OctHot
- NovHot
- DecHot
Month by month
Every month in N'Djamena
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°C | 15°C | 0 mm | 17% | 23% | 6 | 23°C | Hot |
| February | 37°C | 19°C | 0 mm | 14% | 29% | 6.4 | 24°C | Hot |
| March | 40°C | 22°C | 0 mm | 12% | 43% | 6.7 | 27°C | Hot |
| April | 42°C | 26°C | 5 mm | 18% | 54% | 6.8 | 31°C | Hot |
| May | 41°C | 28°C | 23 mm | 33% | 59% | 6.6 | 35°C | Hot |
| June | 38°C | 26°C | 60 mm | 49% | 64% | 6.2 | 37°C | Hot |
| July | 35°C | 24°C | 133 mm | 65% | 71% | 5.7 | 39°C | Hot |
| August | 31°C | 23°C | 192 mm | 77% | 78% | 5.4 | 39°C | Wet |
| September | 32°C | 23°C | 92 mm | 75% | 58% | 6 | 37°C | Hot |
| October | 36°C | 22°C | 24 mm | 55% | 41% | 6.2 | 34°C | Hot |
| November | 37°C | 19°C | 0 mm | 26% | 27% | 6.1 | 29°C | Hot |
| December | 34°C | 16°C | 0 mm | 19% | 19% | 5.8 | 25°C | Hot |
The Dubai column is Dubai's mean daily high, for comparison.
Modelled averages for an area about 50 km across, not a weather station's record: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
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