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Cap Skirring | |
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Town | |
 The beach stretching south towards the border to Guinea-Bissau | |
  Cap Skirring | |
| Coordinates:12°21′N16°43′W / 12.350°N 16.717°W /12.350; -16.717 | |
| Country |  Senegal |
| Region | Basse Casamance (Ziguinchor) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Cap Skirring, also spelledCap Skiring, is a town on theAtlantic Ocean coast of theBasse Casamance (Ziguinchor) region ofSenegal, near the border ofGuinea-Bissau. It is a popularseaside resort withEuropeans and hasan airport and agolf course. The town was first occupied by fishermen. It was discovered by the French ofZiguinchor as a recreational beach zone in the 1960s. A landing strip for small planes was built at the end of 1960 by members of the Aero Club de Ziguinchor.
| Climate data for Cap Skirring (Cap Skirring Airport) (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.8 (89.2) | 32.6 (90.7) | 31.9 (89.4) | 30.1 (86.2) | 30.0 (86.0) | 31.4 (88.5) | 30.9 (87.6) | 30.5 (86.9) | 31.2 (88.2) | 32.4 (90.3) | 32.8 (91.0) | 32.0 (89.6) | 31.5 (88.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) | 18.3 (64.9) | 19.0 (66.2) | 19.9 (67.8) | 21.9 (71.4) | 24.4 (75.9) | 24.5 (76.1) | 24.3 (75.7) | 23.8 (74.8) | 24.2 (75.6) | 22.3 (72.1) | 19.1 (66.4) | 21.6 (70.9) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.1 (0.00) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 3.2 (0.13) | 48.8 (1.92) | 308.7 (12.15) | 432.1 (17.01) | 318.3 (12.53) | 102.3 (4.03) | 2.3 (0.09) | 0.1 (0.00) | 1,216.1 (47.88) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 15.6 | 19.1 | 15.8 | 7.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 63.3 |
| Source:NOAA[1] | |||||||||||||
12°21′N16°43′W / 12.350°N 16.717°W /12.350; -16.717
