Fogo

Why visit

Visit Fogo for the volcano. Pico do Fogo and Cha das Caldeiras make the island one of the clearest landscape trips in Cabo Verde, with villages, lava fields, and altitude changing the day. It makes sense when the Cabo Verde trip has room for an island hop and a slower mountain rhythm.

When to avoid

Do not add Fogo casually to a short Cabo Verde trip. Flights, ferry timing, weather, and hiking plans need space. If the volcano or caldera stay is not the point, another island may be easier to fit.

Plan Fogo

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Fogo

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

Drizzle

18° / 12°

1.4 mm

UV Moderate

Wed

Drizzle

17° / 13°

1.7 mm

UV High

Thu

Thunderstorm

16° / 12°

20.3 mm

UV Very high

Fri

Drizzle

18° / 13°

4.8 mm

UV High

Sat

Drizzle

19° / 13°

2.4 mm

UV High

Sun

Drizzle

17° / 12°

2.4 mm

UV High

Mon

Partly cloudy

15° / 11°

UV Very high

Climate

Wet season (Aug-Dec)

About 74% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 27°C, lows around 25°C.

Dry season (Jan-Jul)

About 14mm of rain a month, against 55mm in the wet season.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

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Weather

27° / 26°

Typical high / low

2 mm rainfall this month

Daylight

12.6h

06:23 – 19:01local

Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest RAI · 93 km

Getting around Fogo

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

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Operators and modes are aggregated from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications come from each feed’s route type codes.

References4

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

City background. Structured city fields are cross-checked against the related references.
Weather and climate. Seven-day forecast and long-term monthly climate for the city coordinates. Related: NASA POWER, Open-Meteo license.
Getting around. Transit operators from agency GTFS feeds and nearby commercial-airport reference data. Related: OurAirports.
Public holidays