Ouagadougou
Burkina FasoAw
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Ouagadougou or Wagadugu is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation. It has a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais. The spelling of the name Ouagadougou is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies.
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The next week in Ouagadougou
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
39° / 27°
UV Very high
Sat
Drizzle
38° / 26°
2.0 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
39° / 28°
UV Very high
Mon
Showers
36° / 24°
8.8 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Drizzle
38° / 24°
UV High
Wed
Thunderstorm
36° / 27°
0.9 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
43° / 21°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.7h
05:41 – 18:22local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Ouagadougou
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (OUA) at 2 km.
Getting around Ouagadougou
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
FlixBus-deB Metro
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.
- City flag source →
CC0, Ville de Ouagadougou.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.