Tamale climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Tamale?

Tamale has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 28.1 °C and it receives 870 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 24 March 1998, reaching 41.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Tamale?

The coldest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 2 December 1976, at 15.1 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Tamale?

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

Q: Has the climate of Tamale warmed?

Yes: Tamale warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Tamale?

The wettest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 14 August 2007, with 154 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Tamale?

The windiest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 24 January 1992, with winds reaching 30.0 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Tamale?

The warmest month in Tamale is March (31.6 °C on average); the coldest is August (25.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Tamale?

Tamale receives on average 870 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 130 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Tamale?

Tamale gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Tamale (Ghana) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 28.1 °C and it receives 870 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 March (31.6 °C on average) and the coldest is August (25.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in August.

Tamale averages 0 frost days, 294 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 130 rainy days per year.

Tamale has warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.17 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 41.9 °C (on 24 March 1998) and the coldest 15.1 °C (on 2 December 1976).

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

TamaleNorthern

coords: 9.40°, -0.84°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthMarchColdest monthAugustWettest monthAugustDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

28.1°C

Average daily high

33.3°C

Average daily low

23.5°C

Annual rainfall

870mm

Sunshine / day

10.5h

Mean relative humidity

61%

Average peak wind

14.1km/h

Seasonal range

6.1°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

294 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

130 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

36.8 °C

Average feels-like low

25.5 °C

Average peak gust

29.7 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

341 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.1 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.4 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.55 · 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

41.9 °C

24 March 1998

Coldest day

15.1 °C

2 December 1976

Wettest day

154 mm

14 August 2007

Windiest day

30.0 km/h

24 January 1992

Strongest gust

56.5 km/h

24 January 1992

Hottest feels-like

48.4 °C

13 March 2024

Coldest feels-like

10.8 °C

9 January 1957

Sunniest day

12.0 h

18 July 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	40.5 °C12 March 2025	19.3 °C20 January 2025	28.9 °C	777 mm	315
2024	41.2 °C11 March 2024	18.3 °C29 December 2024	29.1 °C	818 mm	325
2023	39.9 °C8 March 2023	18.2 °C3 January 2023	28.9 °C	795 mm	317
2022	39.5 °C10 March 2022	17.2 °C17 November 2022	28.3 °C	968 mm	292
2021	40.5 °C3 March 2021	19.2 °C17 January 2021	29.2 °C	672 mm	329
2020	40.8 °C12 March 2020	16.8 °C3 January 2020	28.9 °C	930 mm	307
2019	41.0 °C15 March 2019	19.1 °C12 December 2019	29.1 °C	973 mm	326
2018	40.3 °C3 March 2018	17.4 °C20 January 2018	28.7 °C	1,053 mm	322
2017	40.5 °C16 March 2017	19.3 °C12 January 2017	29.1 °C	806 mm	315
2016	40.9 °C5 March 2016	20.0 °C25 December 2016	29.1 °C	921 mm	315
2015	40.1 °C16 March 2015	18.1 °C19 December 2015	28.9 °C	759 mm	325
2014	39.6 °C27 March 2014	18.7 °C27 December 2014	28.9 °C	837 mm	323
2013	41.4 °C6 March 2013	19.0 °C19 December 2013	28.8 °C	665 mm	315
2012	39.9 °C25 March 2012	17.7 °C18 January 2012	28.7 °C	760 mm	318
2011	40.7 °C17 April 2011	17.4 °C3 December 2011	28.6 °C	730 mm	322
2010	40.7 °C24 February 2010	16.6 °C12 December 2010	28.8 °C	1,002 mm	317
2009	39.3 °C7 March 2009	17.4 °C3 December 2009	28.7 °C	806 mm	317
2008	40.0 °C6 March 2008	16.5 °C8 January 2008	28.4 °C	913 mm	309
2007	39.7 °C10 February 2007	17.7 °C5 January 2007	28.4 °C	957 mm	304
2006	40.2 °C27 February 2006	16.8 °C29 November 2006	28.6 °C	689 mm	300
2005	40.8 °C10 March 2005	18.0 °C16 December 2005	28.5 °C	715 mm	296
2004	39.9 °C26 March 2004	18.6 °C7 January 2004	28.4 °C	644 mm	293
2003	41.6 °C18 March 2003	16.9 °C10 December 2003	28.4 °C	945 mm	285
2002	40.4 °C22 February 2002	15.5 °C28 December 2002	28.6 °C	817 mm	291
2001	41.1 °C3 March 2001	18.1 °C4 January 2001	28.7 °C	617 mm	310
2000	39.0 °C6 March 2000	17.8 °C25 December 2000	28.2 °C	707 mm	306
1999	40.6 °C17 March 1999	16.5 °C15 December 1999	27.8 °C	1,164 mm	271
1998	41.9 °C24 March 1998	18.2 °C18 December 1998	28.9 °C	916 mm	301
1997	40.5 °C11 March 1997	18.5 °C27 December 1997	28.3 °C	847 mm	304
1996	39.9 °C21 March 1996	16.3 °C2 January 1996	28.1 °C	869 mm	293
1995	39.9 °C31 March 1995	15.6 °C21 November 1995	27.9 °C	1,039 mm	291
1994	41.0 °C23 March 1994	16.8 °C17 January 1994	28.1 °C	943 mm	300
1993	40.3 °C5 March 1993	17.5 °C7 January 1993	28.3 °C	874 mm	294
1992	40.4 °C18 March 1992	17.4 °C9 December 1992	27.8 °C	861 mm	280
1991	40.2 °C22 February 1991	18.1 °C24 December 1991	27.8 °C	977 mm	271
1990	40.1 °C30 March 1990	18.3 °C28 December 1990	28.4 °C	743 mm	301
1989	40.2 °C19 May 1989	17.5 °C2 January 1989	27.9 °C	1,114 mm	288
1988	41.3 °C28 February 1988	18.2 °C24 December 1988	28.5 °C	1,138 mm	304
1987	40.7 °C26 April 1987	18.7 °C23 December 1987	28.9 °C	824 mm	330
1986	39.7 °C12 March 1986	16.4 °C15 November 1986	27.9 °C	1,030 mm	294
1985	40.4 °C11 March 1985	18.0 °C16 December 1985	28.2 °C	950 mm	289
1984	39.8 °C7 April 1984	18.7 °C23 December 1984	28.5 °C	861 mm	329
1983	41.6 °C24 March 1983	19.1 °C7 January 1983	29.1 °C	657 mm	317
1982	39.5 °C28 March 1982	18.1 °C10 January 1982	28.2 °C	819 mm	320
1981	41.2 °C14 April 1981	18.6 °C23 November 1981	28.4 °C	850 mm	300
1980	41.3 °C23 March 1980	16.8 °C12 November 1980	28.3 °C	1,019 mm	311
1979	38.6 °C15 April 1979	17.2 °C5 January 1979	27.7 °C	1,001 mm	288
1978	40.9 °C2 April 1978	18.1 °C14 November 1978	27.9 °C	980 mm	295
1977	41.1 °C18 April 1977	17.2 °C3 November 1977	28.0 °C	863 mm	301
1976	40.6 °C10 April 1976	15.1 °C2 December 1976	27.3 °C	925 mm	263
1975	40.2 °C20 March 1975	17.2 °C24 December 1975	27.6 °C	808 mm	272
1974	39.3 °C24 March 1974	16.6 °C6 December 1974	27.7 °C	783 mm	286
1973	41.5 °C13 March 1973	17.3 °C22 November 1973	28.2 °C	847 mm	306
1972	39.2 °C28 March 1972	16.6 °C10 November 1972	27.7 °C	907 mm	293
1971	39.1 °C7 March 1971	18.2 °C25 January 1971	27.5 °C	1,090 mm	282
1970	39.7 °C27 March 1970	16.7 °C21 January 1970	28.0 °C	914 mm	295
1969	41.0 °C16 March 1969	16.8 °C25 November 1969	27.6 °C	974 mm	275
1968	38.9 °C25 February 1968	17.3 °C19 January 1968	27.4 °C	1,254 mm	279
1967	39.8 °C15 March 1967	17.5 °C13 January 1967	27.4 °C	1,042 mm	277
1966	40.3 °C28 March 1966	17.4 °C4 January 1966	27.8 °C	837 mm	295
1965	39.9 °C7 March 1965	17.3 °C5 December 1965	27.7 °C	858 mm	279
1964	40.3 °C10 March 1964	17.8 °C12 January 1964	28.0 °C	783 mm	297
1963	39.8 °C18 February 1963	15.8 °C9 December 1963	27.7 °C	1,033 mm	278
1962	40.3 °C4 March 1962	16.8 °C8 January 1962	27.4 °C	851 mm	278
1961	39.2 °C23 March 1961	17.2 °C12 December 1961	27.7 °C	652 mm	293
1960	40.2 °C13 March 1960	17.6 °C28 December 1960	27.7 °C	1,018 mm	282
1959	40.1 °C14 April 1959	17.9 °C29 January 1959	27.8 °C	913 mm	280
1958	39.5 °C13 March 1958	17.4 °C4 January 1958	28.3 °C	697 mm	303
1957	38.4 °C17 March 1957	15.3 °C9 January 1957	26.6 °C	1,260 mm	210
1956	39.0 °C8 March 1956	16.1 °C7 January 1956	27.3 °C	829 mm	265
1955	39.8 °C13 April 1955	16.2 °C27 December 1955	27.2 °C	1,149 mm	238
1954	39.8 °C3 March 1954	17.6 °C7 December 1954	27.7 °C	700 mm	276
1953	40.3 °C19 March 1953	18.9 °C27 November 1953	28.0 °C	727 mm	264
1952	39.9 °C27 March 1952	17.6 °C2 December 1952	27.6 °C	771 mm	272
1951	40.0 °C14 March 1951	17.8 °C12 December 1951	27.4 °C	947 mm	281
1950	40.0 °C16 March 1950	16.7 °C14 November 1950	27.1 °C	850 mm	255
1949	39.4 °C19 February 1949	17.3 °C22 December 1949	27.9 °C	839 mm	298
1948	39.5 °C27 March 1948	18.3 °C26 November 1948	27.5 °C	808 mm	294
1947	40.2 °C22 February 1947	18.0 °C19 December 1947	27.8 °C	929 mm	256
1946	39.4 °C2 April 1946	17.5 °C1 January 1946	28.0 °C	534 mm	310
1945	39.8 °C10 April 1945	17.1 °C6 November 1945	27.3 °C	804 mm	273
1944	39.8 °C13 April 1944	16.4 °C24 November 1944	27.7 °C	1,132 mm	270
1943	40.3 °C1 March 1943	18.1 °C25 December 1943	27.4 °C	815 mm	240
1942	40.0 °C30 March 1942	17.0 °C12 January 1942	28.3 °C	702 mm	289
1941	40.6 °C29 March 1941	17.8 °C2 December 1941	28.6 °C	624 mm	324
1940	38.4 °C19 February 1940	16.4 °C29 January 1940	28.3 °C	606 mm	325

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

34.0 °C

+0.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

315 d/yr

+21

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

777 mm

-93 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	35.3 °C	+0.6 °C	0 mm	-2 mm
Feb	37.2 °C	+0.5 °C	1 mm	-6 mm
Mar	38.1 °C	+0.6 °C	4 mm	-27 mm
Apr	37.1 °C	+0.8 °C	21 mm	-36 mm
May	34.3 °C	-0.3 °C	38 mm	-35 mm
Jun	33.1 °C	+1.0 °C	44 mm	-39 mm
Jul	30.2 °C	+0.4 °C	218 mm	+73 mm
Aug	29.2 °C	+0.3 °C	183 mm	-18 mm
Sep	30.1 °C	+0.6 °C	220 mm	+32 mm
Oct	32.7 °C	+1.2 °C	47 mm	-26 mm
Nov	35.4 °C	+1.3 °C	1 mm	-8 mm
Dec	35.4 °C	+1.1 °C	0 mm	-3 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

40.5 °C

12 Mar 2025

Coldest day

19.3 °C

20 Jan 2025

Wettest day

102.4 mm

13 Sep 2025

Windiest day

25.9 km/h

11 Apr 2025

Strongest gust

41.4 km/h

30 Jun 2025

Hottest feels-like

46.2 °C

4 Apr 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.4 °C

27 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

18 Jul 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Tamale?

Tamale has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 28.1 °C and it receives 870 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Tamale?

The hottest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 24 March 1998, reaching 41.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Tamale?

The coldest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 2 December 1976, at 15.1 °C.

Does it snow in Tamale?

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

Has the climate of Tamale warmed?

Yes: Tamale warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Tamale?

The wettest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 14 August 2007, with 154 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Tamale?

The windiest day measured in Tamale between 1940 and 2025 was 24 January 1992, with winds reaching 30.0 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Tamale?

The warmest month in Tamale is March (31.6 °C on average); the coldest is August (25.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Tamale?

Tamale receives on average 870 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 130 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Tamale?

Tamale gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Tamale?

Yes: Tamale has on average 341 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Tamale?

In Tamale, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 48.4 °C on 13 March 2024, and the lowest was 10.8 °C on 9 January 1957.

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