Zakouma National Park

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A massive conservation success story where booming elephant herds now proudly patrol vast central African floodplains.

Warmest month is March at 41°C on average. Coolest is August at 31°C. Driest reading falls in January with 0 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January36°±3°0
February38°±3°0
March41°±2°0
April41°±2°2
May40°±3°6
June35°±4°14
July32°±4°23
August31°±3°25
September32°±3°20
October35°±3°5
November37°±2°0
December36°±2°0

What to do

  • Watch massive flocks of red-billed queleas darken the sky over the wetlands
  • Track the highly protected, booming elephant numbers on an open-jeep safari
  • Spot vividly colored northern carmine bee-eaters nesting in the riverbanks

How we know this

Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.