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Weather extremes

How extreme does Diffa's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Diffa has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Diffa station 7 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Diffa has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
121°F May 27, 2002

That is about 13°F hotter than a normal May afternoon in Diffa (typical high near 108°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 121°F May 27, 2002
2 118°F Mar 21, 2000
3 118°F May 25, 2001
❄️ Coldest night
36°F Feb 14, 2001

About 25°F colder than a normal February night in Diffa (typical low near 62°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 36°F Feb 14, 2001
2 39°F Dec 11, 2003
3 44°F Jan 14, 2014
🌧️ Most rain in one day
17.57 in Oct 15, 2019

More rain in a single day than Diffa usually gets in the whole month of October (typical October total about 1.2 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 17.57 in Oct 15, 2019
2 12.62 in Sep 12, 2004
3 11.06 in Aug 1, 1994

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.

10°30°50°70°90°110°130°150° all-time high 121°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Diffa's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — May's 121°F is about 13°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

In a normal year, Diffa's warmest days reach the high 100s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 50s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 121°F and as low as 36°F. A single day has delivered over 18 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Diffa, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →