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Cities / Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou

Burkina FasoAw
© OpenStreetMap, CARTO
Ouagadougou coordinate map

Ouagadougou at a glance

Local time   · Africa/Ouagadougou
Today
Showers31° / 23°

3.4 mm rain forecast

Travel basics
Tap water
Use bottled or filtered
Electricity
220V/50Hz · Type C / E
Drives on
Right
Currency
XOF CFA
Language
French
US passport
Required

Entry rules change. Verify current requirements before booking.

City context
Population
2.5M
Elevation
305 m
Climate
Aw
Founded
1050
Burkina Faso

Why visit

Visit Ouagadougou for museums, galleries, and collections, religious and civic architecture, markets, streets, food, and public squares. For Ouagadougou, focus on what you can actually see and do: museums, streets, religious buildings, markets, performance spaces, food, and nearby landscapes. A good itinerary should stay selective. In Ouagadougou, start with one strong anchor, then add a nearby walk, cafe, market, church, museum, bookshop, or evening event where the city supports it. The result is a day in Ouagadougou that can be followed, remembered, and adjusted. If Ouagadougou has useful day trips or nearby landscape, use them to widen the context rather than to overload the schedule.

When to avoid

Do not expect Ouagadougou to behave like one enclosed cultural district. For Ouagadougou, avoid widening the route after the day is underway. When plans change in Ouagadougou, choose something close rather than spending the day in transit. Use Ouagadougou with enough margin for the distance between lodging, transport, and cultural stops.

Details and sources →

Plan Ouagadougou

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

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
Showers
31° / 23°
3.4 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
32° / 24°
UV High
Thu
Thunderstorm
33° / 25°
3.9 mm
UV High
Fri
Drizzle
31° / 24°
1.0 mm
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
32° / 23°
4.1 mm
UV High
Sun
Drizzle
28° / 23°
3.6 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
30° / 23°
UV High

Climate

Wet season (Jun-Sep)

About 83% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 32°C, lows around 23°C.

Dry season (Oct-May)

About 18mm of rain a month, against 169mm in the wet season.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

JFMAMJJASOND
Weather
31° / 22°
Typical high / low
8 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.5h
05:54 – 18:27local
Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest OUA · 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-de

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

About Ouagadougou

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.

Area
219 km²
Mayor
Armand Béouindé
Airport codes
OUA
Burkina Faso basics →Country context, advisories, and entry links for the practicalities shown above.
References5▾▴

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

  1. City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: Wikidata, .
JFMAMJJASOND42°12°
highlowrainfallcomfortable months

Monthly highs, lows, rainfall — long-term averages, NASA POWER.

Open-Elevation
, IANA Time Zone Database
, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • 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. Upcoming public-holiday dates used in the annual planning scrubber.
  • City flag source. CC0, Ville de Ouagadougou.
  • Maps, image licenses, and the full dataset registry are listed in site credits.