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Tropical semi-arid climate
- The Sahel has a tropical semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh). The climate is typically hot, sunny, dry and somewhat windy all year long. The Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the Sahara desert located just to the north.
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The Sahel has a hot semi-arid climate and stretches across the southernmost latitudes of North Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. Although geographically located in the tropics, the Sahel does not have a tropical climate.
This article provides an in-depth look at all aspects of the climate of the Sahel, including the pervasive dust in the Sahelian atmosphere. Emphasis is on two aspects: West African monsoon and the region’s rainfall regime.
Two climatic regimes dominate the Sahara desert: a dry northern subtropical climate and a dry southern tropical climate. The characteristics of dry subtropical climate are unusually high-temperature ranges, annual and diurnal, hot summers and cold to cool winters, and two precipitation maximums.
The climate of Africa is a range of climates such as the equatorial climate, the tropical wet and dry climate, the tropical monsoon climate, the semi-arid climate (semi-desert and steppe), the desert climate (hyper-arid and arid), the humid subtropical climate, and the subtropical highland climate. Temperate climates are rare across the ...
The Sahelian climate is tropical. Summers are hot, with maximum mean temperatures varying from 33° to 36°C (91° to 97°F). Monthly mean minimum temperatures fall in the range of 18° to 21°C (64° to 70°).
In Niger, the climate is subtropical desert in the north, tropical semi-desert in the center, and tropical semi-arid of the savanna in the south. In fact, the rains increase from north to south because of the African monsoon, which brings humidity and clouds from the Atlantic Ocean, in the June-September period.
In central Mali, the climate is tropical semi-desert. This area, stretched from west to east south of the Sahara, is called Sahel. The average temperature exceeds 20 °C (68 °C) even in January.
