Climate and average weather in Abeokuta

In Abeokuta, the summers are muggy, sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: late October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Abeokuta typically varies from 23°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 37°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Abeokuta for warm-weather activities are from mid July to early September and late October to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Jun
175 mm
Driest
Dec
11 mm
Rain / yr
1153 mm
204 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
64 m
7.2°N
Clearest
Dec
40% cloud

Abeokuta is city in Nigeria.

Density
836/km²
people per km²
Founded
1825

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Abeokuta weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Abeokuta, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Abeokuta stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in January.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3424
Feb3425
Mar3425
Apr3225
May3124
Jun3023
Jul2923
Aug2823
Sep2923
Oct3023
Nov3224
Dec3323

How hot and cold Abeokuta really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Abeokuta feels like about 40°C (around March 24). About 306 days a year carry some heat stress, and 59 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36342324
Feb39342525
Mar40342525
Apr39322525
May37312424
Jun34302323
Jul32292323
Aug31282323
Sep32292323
Oct34302323
Nov37322424
Dec36332323

Average hourly temperature in Abeokuta

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Abeokuta weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan34° / 24°14411.63.7
Feb34° / 25°276.911.82.9
Mar34° / 25°6014.5122.8
Apr32° / 25°921812.22.9
May31° / 24°14924.912.32.8
Jun30° / 23°1752612.43.1
Jul29° / 23°16425.312.43.5
Aug28° / 23°14723.212.23.8
Sep29° / 23°15925.5123.2
Oct30° / 23°12423.511.83.2
Nov32° / 24°329.311.74.0
Dec33° / 23°113.111.64.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Abeokuta gets about 1153 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.7 months, from around Apr 11 to Oct 30, peaking in June at about 87% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 23.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 175 mm over about 26 wet days; December is the driest, with 11 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 22 · 87%Dec 23 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb267
Mar4715
Apr6018
May8025
Jun8626
Jul8125
Aug7523
Sep8526
Oct7424
Nov339
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Abeokuta collects about 1153 mm of rain across 204 wet days — roughly 96 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 175 mm, while December is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec142760921491751641471591243211
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan144
Feb277
Mar6015
Apr9218
May14925
Jun17526
Jul16425
Aug14723
Sep15926
Oct12424
Nov329
Dec113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Abeokuta, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 30 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around March 13. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 14 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around October 29. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 22 · 81%Aug 17 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb5347
Mar3070
Apr2179
May1486
Jun991
Jul595
Aug496
Sep694
Oct1882
Nov5545
Dec7624

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 22, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.67:076:45
Feb11.87:086:54
Mar12.06:586:55
Apr12.26:426:52
May12.36:336:53
Jun12.46:346:59
Jul12.46:417:04
Aug12.26:446:58
Sep12.06:406:42
Oct11.86:366:27
Nov11.76:426:22
Dec11.66:556:30

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Abeokuta averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Nov 4 to Mar 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2419 daysJul 50 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar3Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov8Mixed
Dec17Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Abeokuta, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.2 months, from around February 26 to December 3. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 4 to February 25, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 20% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 9 · 24%Mar 21 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan146815507
Feb53595821
Mar00125146
Apr00004060
May00004753
Jun00008416
Jul0002971
Aug0006940
Sep0000990
Oct00008911
Nov00137225
Dec556126011

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Abeokuta is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 2 · 8 km/hOct 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Abeokuta

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Abeokuta's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Abeokuta sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

Rainy season
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Abeokuta

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Abeokuta throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early November, Abeokuta is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Abeokuta for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to early September and again from late October to late January, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 12 · 4.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.7fair
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr2.9poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov4.0fair
Dec4.2fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Abeokuta for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 7.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Abeokuta, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around February (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Abeokuta sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Abeokuta by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Abeokuta peaks around April 9 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near February 9 at about 7 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 9UV 13Feb 9UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7Very high
Feb7High
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Abeokuta

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.53
Feb6.53
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun86
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Abeokuta by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Abeokuta is worst in January — around 119 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.1× the cleanest month (August, 29 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 17117 µg/m³Aug 1029 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan119Unhealthy
Feb107Unhealthy
Mar58Unhealthy
Apr51Poor
May38Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep35Poor
Oct48Poor
Nov60Unhealthy
Dec104Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Abeokuta is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Abeokuta banks about 6,390 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan575
Feb549
Mar601
Apr558
May546
Jun494
Jul488
Aug480
Sep480
Oct519
Nov535
Dec565

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Abeokuta receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 4 to May 11. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 85.5 kWhAug 123.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.0Moderate
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep4.0Moderate
Oct4.3Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Abeokuta?

Abeokuta sits at 7.2°N, 3.3°E, 64 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Igbo-Ora, 32 km away.

Topography around Abeokuta

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Abeokuta.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Abeokuta has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 147 m around an average of 68 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 443 m.

The land around Abeokuta is covered by artificial surfaces (81%) within 3 km, trees (56%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) within 80 km.

3 km
147 m
16 km
205 m
80 km
443 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Igbo-Ora 32 km · Ifo 41 km · Eruwa 44 km · Iperu 45 km · Orita-Eruwa 46 km · Ijoko 47 km · Ilaro 47 km · Shagamu 48 km

Nigeria travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 13% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,224
2025
Happiness
4.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
30%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
15.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
20.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 569
Religion
Muslim 54%other Christian 35%Roman Catholic 11%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Abeokuta (7.1557°, 3.3451°, elevation 64 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).