Kololi weather by month
The best time to visit Kololi is January, April and May — 94/100 in April, 33°C and 0 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, October to June (90/100 on average).
The worst month is August at 63/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See August →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Gambia →
Best season: October to June (90/100 on average) · worst August (63/100)
- Days
- 33°C
- Nights
- 20°C
- Wet days
- 0
- Sun
- 11.7 h
- Humidity
- 64%
- Daylight
- 12 h

Kololi, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Kololi is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Kololi through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Kololi in April
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusyEuropean charter season, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Kololi
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Kololi forum threads consistently rate January as prime dry-season beach weather - genuinely hot by day, with rain a rare event this time of year, and posters calling it among the warmest short-haul beach options available from Europe in winter. Evenings do turn noticeably cooler though, with temperatures dropping enough that a light cardigan or jumper was the standard packing tip. One consistent factor across threads: the Harmattan, a dry, dusty wind blowing down from the Sahara between late November and mid-March, adds a hazy, gritty quality to the air alongside the otherwise reliable sunshine.
Forum posters describe March days as hot, sometimes very hot, with wall-to-wall sunshine typical and only the rare overcast morning. Evenings and especially mornings can carry an occasional chill wind, and posters note real year-to-year variability at night specifically - one March trip might stay warm after dark while another turns unexpectedly cold, so packing a wrap or cardigan for the evening is standard advice even though daytime heat is the norm. March falls within Gambia's long tourist season (which runs roughly November through April), and posters describe it as a reliably sunny, dry month overall - the main adjustment needed is for that morning-balcony chill before the day properly heats up.
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