Nouakchott
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About
Nouakchott is the capital and largest city of Mauritania. Located in the southwestern part of the country, it is one of the largest cities in the Sahara. The city also serves as the administrative and economic center of Mauritania.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nouakchott, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Nouakchott
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
32° / 21°
UV Very high
Sat
Partly cloudy
34° / 21°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
34° / 21°
UV Very high
Mon
Clear
35° / 22°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
37° / 24°
UV Very high
Wed
Overcast
36° / 23°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
36° / 17°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.0h
06:30 – 19:29local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Nouakchott
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport (NKC) at 25 km.
Getting around Nouakchott
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
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- 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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.