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The climate of Basse Santa Su (Gambia)
Basse Santa Su is located in the eastern part of Gambia and is the capital of the Upper River Region. Basse Santa Su is an important city in this part of Gambia and plays an important regional role, also because of the big market that is held here. Basse Santa Su itself offers little entertainment besides traditional loam houses with thatched roofs, several colonial warehouses and a catholic church. Around the city and especially along the river many palm trees grow. Most cruises over the Gambia River use Basse Santa Su as their terminal. The main source of income for the city are the cotton plantations.
Basse Santa Su has a tropical savannah climate which can be divided into two seasons: a rainy season and a dry season. The rainy season is from the second part of June till the second part of October with August as the wettest month. From February till May the weather is mainly determined by the Harmattan; a warm and extremely dry wind that carries a lot of sand, sometimes limiting vision to less than 50 meters.

 

Climate information
The figures below are based on long term weather and climate records. They are an average for Basse Santa Su

average
 maximum
temperature (°C)

average
minimum

temperature (°C)
average
hours of sunshine

per
day
average days with precipitation
per month
average
mm
precipitation
per month
average
sea
temperature (°C)
January 34 15 8 1 n/a
February 36 16 9 1 n/a
March 38 21 9 1 n/a
April 40 24 10 3 n/a
May 39 25 10 7 n/a
June 36 25 8 14 n/a
July 33 23 7 17 n/a
August 32 23 7 18 n/a
September 32 23 7 16 n/a
October 34 23 8 13 n/a
November 35 18 9 6 n/a
December 34 14 8 3 n/a
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm
= 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:
 

chance of
(very) hot

weather

chance of
(very) cool
weather
chance of
long-term

precipitation
chance of
hurricanes
(cyclones)
chance of
sunny days

UV-index

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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