This data set includes all data that was used for the publication "Evaporation from cultivated and semi-wild Sudanian Savanna in west Africa" in Hydrology Earth and System Sciences, 21, 4149–4167, 2017. It is built on the same data from 2 PhD theses at EPFL (6011 and 6040), and other publications. It consists of data from two eddy covariance stations and a network of small meteorological stations in Tambarga, Burkina Faso. Most data is from the period between 2009 and 2010 but some continues through 2015.