West Darfur · Sudan
Geneina travel guide
Geneina is a city in West Darfur, Sudan, home to about 200,000 people.
- Currency
- SDGSudanese pound
- Time zone
- Africa/Khartoum
- Language
- Arabic, English
About
About Geneina
Geneina (sometimes Al-Junaynah or El Geneina; Arabic: الجنينة, lit. 'the little garden') is a city in West Darfur, part of the dar Masalit region, in Sudan. It joined British Sudan at the end of 1919 through the Gilani Agreement, signed between the Masalit Sultanate and the United Kingdom, according to which it became a territory.
Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
When to go
The best time to visit Geneina
Geneina has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. May is the warmest month, with average highs of 39 °C; August is the wettest, with about 251 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Questions
Geneina: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Geneina?
Geneina has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. May is the warmest month, with average highs of 39 °C; August is the wettest, with about 251 mm of rain.
What currency is used in Geneina?
Sudanese pound (SDG).
Nearby
Destinations near Geneina
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.