Generally speaking, the weather is healthy, sunny warm and dry. The average temperature is 60 degree F (15degree C) at night and 85 degree F (30 degree C) by day time except during the dry season when temperature may raise to over 100 degree F (38) degree C)..

Average rainfall varies approximately from 40 inches in the southern and southwestern areas to less than 10 inches in the northern and northeastern areas.

As a sahelian country, Burkina Faso suffers once and a while from cyclic drought, desertification, soil degradation, deforestation, overgrazing. Valuing environmental caring, Burkina Faso is part to international agreements on biodiversity, climate change struggle against desertification, endangered species, marine life conservation, ozone layer protection and wetlands etc.