It is 78.8°F at Ouagadougou Arpt, 03:00 local on Friday. Ouagadougou is the 4th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 47th hottest of the 184 capitals reporting right now.
Ouagadougou Arpt · DFFD12.4°N 1.5°W · 309 m16 readings in 24 h · METARRecords since 1973📍 Open in Google Maps
Latest reading
78.8°F
26.0°C · 03:00 local
16 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Today so far
80.6°F / 78.8°F
27.0°C / 26.0°C
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 97.2°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
All-time record high
121.3°F
49.6°C · recorded in °C
27 May 2011. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025
All-time record low
47.1°F
8.4°C · recorded in °C
22 November 1986. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
1Ouagadougou is the 4th warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2April is the hottest month here, averaging 104.4°F, which is before midsummer rather than in it. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 121.3°F, on 27 May 2011, and it has stood for 14 years. Source: GHCN-Daily
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1973 at Ouagadougou Arpt, and the archive holds 27,089 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 16 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 309 m above sea level, the 7th highest of 12 stations we hold in Burkina Faso.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Ouagadougou by annual mean.
April is the warmest month at Ouagadougou Arpt, averaging a daily high of 104.4°F. That is an average of every April day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Ouagadougou?+−
August is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 88.7°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 47.7°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Ouagadougou?+−
121.3°F, on 27 May 2011, in the record held for Ouagadougou Arpt. 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 Ouagadougou?+−
47.1°F, on 22 November 1986, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Ouagadougou Arpt. 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.
15.5°F between April and August, the 114th widest swing among the 230 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 34 Aprils, 1976 to 2025, this station's April average has risen about 0.5° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 31 OctoberRecord for the date: 102.4°F, in 2011. Today reached 80.6°F, 21.8°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 2nd of 9,581 reporting stations, across the 50 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
5It has reached the world's hottest 100 stations on 35 of those 50 days. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
66 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1August is the coolest month, averaging 88.7°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 15.5°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 114th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 28.8°F, on 7 November 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Burkina Faso its best placing is 1st of 12 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Ouagadougou right now?+−
78.8°F at Ouagadougou Arpt, measured at 03:00 local on Friday, 13 November 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Ouagadougou?+−
The archive held here for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso starts in 1973, which is 52 years of record, and 27,089 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Ouagadougou's temperature?+−
Ouagadougou Arpt (DFFD), 309 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from METAR reports from the aerodrome and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Ouagadougou's record?+−
The record runs from 1973 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 19 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 40. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Ouagadougou getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 34 Aprils between 1976 and 2025, the average April high at Ouagadougou Arpt has risen about 0.5°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Ouagadougou compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 4th warmest of the 230 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 114th by the width of its annual swing. Khartoum, Niamey, N'Djamena sit closest to it on that ranking.
Why is Ouagadougou hotter in April than in July?+−
April averages a high of 104.4°F here and July 91.0°F, so the hottest part of the year arrives 3 months before midsummer and the afternoons are 13.3°F cooler by the time the sun is highest. The month cards above show the rise and the fall. These are temperature readings, so they show that shape rather than what causes it: nothing on this page measures cloud, rain or wind.
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