Malanville climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Malanville?

Malanville has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 28.6 °C and it receives 657 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Malanville?

The hottest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 19 April 2010, reaching 44.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Malanville?

The coldest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 27 December 1955, at 11.1 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Malanville?

Almost never: Malanville sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Malanville warmed?

Yes: Malanville warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Malanville?

The wettest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 21 August 1967, with 155 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Malanville?

The windiest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 22 May 1940, with winds reaching 28.0 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Malanville?

The warmest month in Malanville is April (33.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (25.6 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Malanville?

Malanville receives on average 657 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 91 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Malanville?

Malanville gets on average 10.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,942 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Malanville (Benin) has a hot semi-arid climate (BSh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 28.6 °C and it receives 657 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is April (33.5 °C on average) and the coldest is January (25.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in August.

Malanville averages 0 frost days, 324 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 91 rainy days per year.

Malanville has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.25 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 44.4 °C (on 19 April 2010) and the coldest 11.1 °C (on 27 December 1955).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

MalanvilleAlibori Department

coords: 11.87°, 3.38°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BShHot semi-aridWarmest monthAprilColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthAugustDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

28.6°C

Average daily high

34.7°C

Average daily low

23.0°C

Annual rainfall

657mm

Sunshine / day

10.8h

Mean relative humidity

48%

Average peak wind

13.8km/h

Seasonal range

7.9°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

324 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

91 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

36.9 °C

Average feels-like low

23.7 °C

Average peak gust

30.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

290 d/yr

Solar radiation

21.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.61 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

44.4 °C

19 April 2010

Coldest day

11.1 °C

27 December 1955

Wettest day

155 mm

21 August 1967

Windiest day

28.0 km/h

22 May 1940

Strongest gust

62.3 km/h

10 June 2013

Hottest feels-like

48.8 °C

24 April 2024

Coldest feels-like

6.9 °C

27 December 1955

Sunniest day

12.3 h

1 June 1942

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	43.8 °C25 April 2025	16.7 °C13 January 2025	29.7 °C	663 mm	343
2024	44.2 °C28 March 2024	16.4 °C21 December 2024	29.5 °C	723 mm	339
2023	42.8 °C10 May 2023	16.1 °C14 January 2023	29.9 °C	475 mm	346
2022	44.0 °C7 April 2022	15.4 °C15 December 2022	29.1 °C	830 mm	331
2021	43.5 °C8 April 2021	17.9 °C18 January 2021	30.0 °C	566 mm	343
2020	43.4 °C3 April 2020	15.3 °C3 January 2020	29.5 °C	599 mm	333
2019	43.1 °C11 April 2019	16.7 °C11 December 2019	29.4 °C	632 mm	348
2018	42.7 °C8 May 2018	15.8 °C6 January 2018	29.3 °C	680 mm	334
2017	43.3 °C12 April 2017	16.1 °C11 January 2017	29.4 °C	493 mm	345
2016	43.1 °C3 May 2016	16.3 °C2 February 2016	29.5 °C	675 mm	334
2015	42.3 °C7 May 2015	14.6 °C13 January 2015	29.4 °C	603 mm	323
2014	42.0 °C5 April 2014	15.1 °C27 December 2014	29.2 °C	703 mm	342
2013	42.7 °C8 March 2013	15.7 °C18 December 2013	29.5 °C	642 mm	327
2012	43.2 °C21 April 2012	14.0 °C17 January 2012	29.2 °C	839 mm	327
2011	43.6 °C17 April 2011	15.9 °C19 January 2011	29.5 °C	425 mm	343
2010	44.4 °C19 April 2010	15.3 °C12 December 2010	29.7 °C	623 mm	338
2009	41.3 °C21 March 2009	15.5 °C27 December 2009	29.5 °C	619 mm	331
2008	42.8 °C21 April 2008	14.7 °C8 January 2008	28.7 °C	693 mm	316
2007	42.8 °C29 March 2007	16.2 °C1 January 2007	29.2 °C	553 mm	315
2006	42.8 °C4 May 2006	14.0 °C26 December 2006	29.4 °C	486 mm	331
2005	42.9 °C14 April 2005	16.2 °C14 January 2005	29.6 °C	591 mm	331
2004	42.2 °C29 March 2004	16.9 °C30 January 2004	29.4 °C	449 mm	342
2003	42.3 °C9 April 2003	15.4 °C7 January 2003	29.2 °C	581 mm	326
2002	42.0 °C26 April 2002	14.4 °C27 December 2002	29.0 °C	693 mm	328
2001	42.3 °C10 April 2001	16.1 °C1 February 2001	28.9 °C	592 mm	332
2000	42.4 °C17 April 2000	16.2 °C20 December 2000	28.7 °C	530 mm	326
1999	42.7 °C19 April 1999	15.4 °C30 December 1999	29.2 °C	658 mm	314
1998	44.0 °C16 April 1998	15.2 °C20 December 1998	29.4 °C	677 mm	339
1997	42.1 °C16 April 1997	16.3 °C24 December 1997	29.2 °C	479 mm	350
1996	42.7 °C3 May 1996	15.1 °C27 December 1996	29.2 °C	604 mm	338
1995	43.3 °C2 April 1995	14.6 °C6 January 1995	29.2 °C	578 mm	343
1994	42.6 °C31 March 1994	14.1 °C27 December 1994	28.5 °C	767 mm	312
1993	43.1 °C22 April 1993	15.1 °C27 January 1993	29.2 °C	491 mm	331
1992	42.0 °C16 April 1992	14.9 °C15 January 1992	28.4 °C	711 mm	310
1991	42.9 °C23 April 1991	15.8 °C24 December 1991	28.8 °C	758 mm	319
1990	43.2 °C22 April 1990	16.5 °C9 February 1990	29.3 °C	477 mm	346
1989	42.1 °C20 April 1989	13.0 °C3 January 1989	28.2 °C	589 mm	317
1988	43.7 °C6 April 1988	14.8 °C24 December 1988	28.8 °C	816 mm	305
1987	43.3 °C10 May 1987	16.7 °C12 December 1987	29.5 °C	457 mm	353
1986	42.8 °C14 April 1986	14.6 °C1 January 1986	28.7 °C	602 mm	320
1985	41.8 °C12 March 1985	15.2 °C17 December 1985	28.8 °C	599 mm	315
1984	42.9 °C19 March 1984	16.0 °C9 February 1984	29.1 °C	427 mm	349
1983	43.8 °C9 April 1983	15.5 °C7 January 1983	29.0 °C	427 mm	324
1982	42.7 °C26 March 1982	13.4 °C11 January 1982	28.6 °C	561 mm	335
1981	42.9 °C17 April 1981	14.9 °C5 December 1981	28.4 °C	669 mm	337
1980	43.8 °C23 April 1980	13.8 °C27 December 1980	28.9 °C	736 mm	337
1979	42.2 °C20 April 1979	13.3 °C19 December 1979	28.3 °C	672 mm	325
1978	41.7 °C30 March 1978	15.2 °C11 January 1978	28.0 °C	763 mm	321
1977	43.2 °C12 April 1977	13.6 °C27 December 1977	28.0 °C	619 mm	326
1976	41.9 °C26 April 1976	14.4 °C13 December 1976	27.7 °C	758 mm	312
1975	41.8 °C27 March 1975	13.4 °C21 January 1975	27.8 °C	762 mm	292
1974	41.6 °C21 April 1974	14.9 °C1 January 1974	28.0 °C	657 mm	284
1973	43.8 °C27 April 1973	14.8 °C30 December 1973	29.1 °C	542 mm	337
1972	42.1 °C11 March 1972	14.6 °C12 January 1972	28.6 °C	646 mm	347
1971	42.9 °C6 May 1971	13.1 °C14 January 1971	28.2 °C	662 mm	317
1970	43.1 °C23 April 1970	13.8 °C4 December 1970	28.3 °C	626 mm	326
1969	43.3 °C6 April 1969	12.7 °C27 November 1969	28.1 °C	906 mm	321
1968	42.2 °C8 April 1968	13.0 °C20 January 1968	27.8 °C	828 mm	335
1967	42.1 °C5 April 1967	14.3 °C13 January 1967	28.2 °C	855 mm	305
1966	42.7 °C25 March 1966	13.5 °C12 February 1966	28.4 °C	667 mm	340
1965	42.6 °C14 May 1965	14.5 °C12 December 1965	28.4 °C	623 mm	335
1964	42.6 °C1 April 1964	15.8 °C11 January 1964	28.5 °C	612 mm	317
1963	42.2 °C1 April 1963	14.4 °C11 December 1963	29.1 °C	475 mm	349
1962	42.4 °C26 April 1962	13.4 °C6 January 1962	28.3 °C	717 mm	318
1961	43.5 °C27 April 1961	14.0 °C17 December 1961	28.1 °C	512 mm	327
1960	42.6 °C20 April 1960	14.7 °C28 December 1960	28.6 °C	643 mm	320
1959	42.6 °C23 April 1959	13.7 °C30 December 1959	28.5 °C	799 mm	321
1958	41.3 °C14 March 1958	14.3 °C25 December 1958	28.6 °C	648 mm	315
1957	40.4 °C14 April 1957	12.1 °C12 January 1957	26.7 °C	948 mm	269
1956	42.0 °C30 April 1956	11.5 °C25 January 1956	27.7 °C	966 mm	282
1955	41.5 °C20 May 1955	11.1 °C27 December 1955	27.3 °C	766 mm	280
1954	41.8 °C20 May 1954	14.6 °C24 January 1954	27.9 °C	754 mm	309
1953	42.6 °C29 April 1953	14.3 °C11 February 1953	27.7 °C	702 mm	302
1952	41.4 °C29 April 1952	12.0 °C3 February 1952	27.2 °C	761 mm	297
1951	41.8 °C14 March 1951	12.4 °C31 December 1951	27.0 °C	888 mm	325
1950	41.6 °C10 April 1950	15.1 °C22 December 1950	27.2 °C	1,012 mm	286
1949	42.0 °C4 May 1949	15.4 °C2 January 1949	29.0 °C	463 mm	331
1948	40.2 °C30 March 1948	14.1 °C31 December 1948	26.9 °C	753 mm	301
1947	41.3 °C21 April 1947	13.6 °C22 January 1947	26.9 °C	1,078 mm	274
1946	41.4 °C14 May 1946	12.2 °C17 December 1946	27.4 °C	670 mm	313
1945	40.7 °C29 April 1945	12.4 °C23 December 1945	26.7 °C	735 mm	288
1944	42.2 °C27 May 1944	13.3 °C16 December 1944	27.4 °C	1,103 mm	290
1943	41.4 °C12 May 1943	15.3 °C24 December 1943	27.7 °C	589 mm	298
1942	41.8 °C21 April 1942	13.6 °C27 January 1942	28.4 °C	500 mm	326
1941	42.2 °C1 April 1941	15.0 °C2 January 1941	29.3 °C	404 mm	354
1940	41.8 °C21 April 1940	14.8 °C8 January 1940	28.8 °C	375 mm	363

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

35.7 °C

+1.0 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

343 d/yr

+19

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

663 mm

+6 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	34.1 °C	+0.9 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Feb	36.8 °C	+0.7 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Mar	41.3 °C	+2.3 °C	0 mm	-3 mm
Apr	41.5 °C	+1.5 °C	0 mm	-13 mm
May	39.3 °C	+1.1 °C	7 mm	-34 mm
Jun	36.3 °C	+1.3 °C	22 mm	-49 mm
Jul	31.4 °C	0.0 °C	191 mm	+35 mm
Aug	30.1 °C	+0.3 °C	277 mm	+48 mm
Sep	31.5 °C	+0.6 °C	150 mm	+32 mm
Oct	34.8 °C	+0.5 °C	16 mm	-8 mm
Nov	36.6 °C	+1.2 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Dec	35.3 °C	+1.8 °C	0 mm	-0 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

43.8 °C

25 Apr 2025

Coldest day

16.7 °C

13 Jan 2025

Wettest day

73.8 mm

3 Sep 2025

Windiest day

23.0 km/h

14 May 2025

Strongest gust

46.8 km/h

14 May 2025

Hottest feels-like

47.2 °C

22 Apr 2025

Coldest feels-like

14.1 °C

13 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.2 h

26 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Malanville?

Malanville has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 28.6 °C and it receives 657 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Malanville?

The hottest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 19 April 2010, reaching 44.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Malanville?

The coldest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 27 December 1955, at 11.1 °C.

Does it snow in Malanville?

Almost never: Malanville sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Malanville warmed?

Yes: Malanville warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Malanville?

The wettest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 21 August 1967, with 155 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Malanville?

The windiest day measured in Malanville between 1940 and 2025 was 22 May 1940, with winds reaching 28.0 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Malanville?

The warmest month in Malanville is April (33.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (25.6 °C).

How much does it rain in Malanville?

Malanville receives on average 657 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 91 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Malanville?

Malanville gets on average 10.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,942 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Malanville?

Yes: Malanville has on average 290 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Malanville?

In Malanville, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 48.8 °C on 24 April 2024, and the lowest was 6.9 °C on 27 December 1955.

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