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About
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dakar, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Dakar
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
22° / 20°
UV Very high
Sat
Clear
23° / 20°
UV Very high
Sun
Clear
23° / 20°
UV Very high
Mon
Partly cloudy
23° / 20°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
25° / 20°
UV Very high
Wed
Overcast
25° / 21°
UV Very high
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
29° / 19°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.8h
06:41 – 19:29local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Dakar
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (DKR) at 9 km.
Getting around Dakar
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, Flagvisioner.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.