Dakartemperature
It is 87.8°F at Dakar/Yoff-Senghor Intl, 14:00 local on Thursday. Dakar is the 111th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 24th hottest of the 209 capitals reporting right now.
20 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 86.7°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
9 November 2006. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1944 to 2025
28 February 1980. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1944 to 2025
Where Dakar stands
Dakar by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- Jan77.9°FHigh 99.3°F · 31 Jan 1997Low 51.8°F · 14 Jan 1973
- Feb76.6°FHigh 99.5°F · 7 Feb 2016Low 50.0°F · 28 Feb 1980
- Mar76.3°FHigh 100.2°F · 4 Mar 1997Low 50.2°F · 1 Mar 1998
- Apr77.0°FHigh 95.7°F · 2 Apr 2017Low 53.1°F · 18 Apr 1994
- May78.4°FHigh 97.3°F · 30 May 2019Low 59.7°F · 7 May 1988
- Jun84.0°FHigh 100.4°F · 13 Jun 1974Low 62.6°F · 5 Jun 1975
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Nearby, hottest and coldest
Within 180 km · 6 stations reporting22 Octobers at Dakar/Yoff-Senghor Intl
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Dakar by annual mean.
How Dakar’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Dakar?
October is the warmest month at Dakar/Yoff-Senghor Intl, averaging a daily high of 87.6°F. That is an average of every October day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Dakar?
March is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 76.3°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 43.3°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Dakar?
105.8°F, on 9 November 2006, in the record held for Dakar/Yoff-Senghor Intl. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Dakar?
50.0°F, on 28 February 1980, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
What is the weather in Dakar right now?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Dakar/Yoff-Senghor Intl. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.