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Weather extremes
How extreme does Parakou's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Parakou has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Parakou has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 8°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Parakou (typical high near 99°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 22°F colder than a normal June night in Parakou (typical low near 72°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 76% of a typical August's rain in a single day (Parakou averages roughly 8.5 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Parakou's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 107°F is about 8°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Parakou, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.