Koundara
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Koundara is a town in northwestern Guinea, near the borders of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. It is the capital of Koundara Prefecture. The town is served by Sambailo Airport. As of 2014 it had a population of 27,433 people.
Climate
Koundara has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw), with the temperature being hot year round, and with a wet and dry season. On 29 March 2017, Koundara recorded a temperature of 45.0 °C (113.0 °F), which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Guinea.
| Climate data for Koundara (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 35.3 (95.5) | 37.9 (100.2) | 39.8 (103.6) | 40.7 (105.3) | 39.3 (102.7) | 35.0 (95.0) | 32.1 (89.8) | 31.3 (88.3) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.4 (92.1) | 34.4 (93.9) | 34.5 (94.1) | 35.5 (95.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.2 (77.4) | 27.9 (82.2) | 30.5 (86.9) | 32.0 (89.6) | 31.7 (89.1) | 28.9 (84.0) | 27.0 (80.6) | 26.5 (79.7) | 26.7 (80.1) | 27.5 (81.5) | 26.7 (80.1) | 24.6 (76.3) | 27.9 (82.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.0 (59.0) | 18.0 (64.4) | 21.2 (70.2) | 23.4 (74.1) | 24.0 (75.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 21.9 (71.4) | 21.6 (70.9) | 21.4 (70.5) | 21.7 (71.1) | 19.1 (66.4) | 14.4 (57.9) | 20.4 (68.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.1 (0.00) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.5 (0.02) | 0.7 (0.03) | 34.1 (1.34) | 142.1 (5.59) | 229.4 (9.03) | 333.1 (13.11) | 293.4 (11.55) | 89.9 (3.54) | 6.2 (0.24) | 0.2 (0.01) | 1,129.7 (44.48) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 3.2 | 9.9 | 14.2 | 18.7 | 17.7 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 71.5 |
| Source: NOAA |
12°29′N 13°18′W/12.483°N 13.300°W/ 12.483; -13.300