Guédiawaye
City in Senegal: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Dakar - Guediawaye: Vincenzo Fotoguru Iaconianni, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Guédiawaye is a city in Senegal, in Dakar. About 329,659 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Senegal in our atlas.
It lies at 14.77° N, 17.40° W, about 20 m (66 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Dakar time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Guédiawaye. Green dots: other major cities of Senegal. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Guédiawaye has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 19°C (66°F). Around 513 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
What to eat in SenegalNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Pikine · 2 km
- Dakar · 10 km
- Rufisque · 15 km
- Thiès · 51 km
- Mbour · 61 km
- Kaolack · 159 km
- Touba · 164 km
- Saint-Louis · 169 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2595778 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1557691 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Dakar - Guediawaye: Vincenzo Fotoguru Iaconianni, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)