| Station: | Dire | Continent: | Africa | ||
| River: | Niger | Major Basin : | Gulf of Guinea | ||
| Country: | Mali | Discharge into : | Atlantic Ocean | ||
| Observation Period: | 1924 - 1979 | Total Months: | 666 | ||
| Latitude (dec deg): | 16.26 N | Area (km2): | 340000 | ||
| Longitude (dec deg): | 3.38 W | Elevation (m): | 257 | ||
| Annual Discharge: (m3/s): | 1108.8 | (km3/yr): | 34.9 | ||
| Annual Runoff: (l/s/km2): | 3.3 | (mm/yr): | 102.5 |
| Mean for Observation Period | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| m3/sec | 1866.4 | 1373.5 | 830.6 | 359.8 | 119.0 | 71.7 | 260.1 | 841.9 | 1474.2 | 1850.9 | 2084.7 | 2146.6 |
| km3/mo | 5.0 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.7 |
| mm/mo | 14.7 | 9.8 | 6.5 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 6.6 | 11.2 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 16.9 |
| l/s/km2 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 4.3 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.3 |