Climate and average weather in Akwanga

In Akwanga, the summers are sweltering, dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: early October to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Akwanga typically varies from 18°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 38°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Akwanga for warm-weather activities is from early October to late January.

Hottest
Mar
36°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
402 mm
Driest
Jan
1 mm
Rain / yr
1517 mm
160 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
454 m
8.9°N
Clearest
Dec
30% cloud

Akwanga 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 early October to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from January 18 to April 17, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Akwanga is March, with an average high of 36°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from June 17 to October 1, with daily high temperatures below 29°C. The coldest month of the year in Akwanga is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3419
Feb3521
Mar3624
Apr3425
May3124
Jun2922
Jul2822
Aug2722
Sep2821
Oct3022
Nov3320
Dec3418

How hot and cold Akwanga 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, Akwanga feels like about 37°C (around April 11). About 265 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34341919
Feb35352121
Mar36362424
Apr37342525
May35312424
Jun32292222
Jul30282222
Aug30272122
Sep31282121
Oct33302222
Nov33332020
Dec34341818

Average hourly temperature in Akwanga

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 March afternoons, near 36°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Akwanga 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° / 19°10.411.53.9
Feb35° / 21°40.711.72.8
Mar36° / 24°142.711.92.3
Apr34° / 25°508.212.22.9
May31° / 24°14718.212.43.4
Jun29° / 22°21524.212.53.5
Jul28° / 22°31129.312.53.4
Aug27° / 22°40229.812.33.4
Sep28° / 21°25325.712.13.5
Oct30° / 22°11118.511.84.0
Nov33° / 20°61.811.64.5
Dec34° / 18°10.111.54.3

Chance of rain

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

Akwanga gets about 1517 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around May 4 to Oct 24, peaking in July at about 97% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 15.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 402 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 23 · 97%Dec 15 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb31
Mar103
Apr288
May5818
Jun8024
Jul9429
Aug9630
Sep8526
Oct5819
Nov82
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Akwanga collects about 1517 mm of rain across 160 wet days — roughly 126 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 402 mm, while January is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 64% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec14145014721531140225311161
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb41
Mar143
Apr508
May14718
Jun21524
Jul31129
Aug40230
Sep25326
Oct11119
Nov62
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Akwanga, 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 24 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 12. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 13 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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 20 · 83%Aug 25 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb6733
Mar5149
Apr3466
May1882
Jun1288
Jul793
Aug595
Sep1090
Oct2971
Nov6337
Dec8020

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 25, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:506:22
Feb11.76:506:32
Mar11.96:386:34
Apr12.26:216:32
May12.46:106:35
Jun12.56:116:42
Jul12.56:186:46
Aug12.36:226:39
Sep12.16:196:22
Oct11.86:176:05
Nov11.66:245:59
Dec11.56:386:07

Sunny days

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

Akwanga averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2021 daysJul 180 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov14Mixed
Dec21Bright

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 Akwanga, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around March 27 to November 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 11 to March 26, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 88% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 27 · 97%May 4 · 0%humidmuggyoppressivedrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8197300
Feb6310151210
Mar27112129110
Apr53829550
May0005931
Jun0004960
Jul00016840
Aug00024760
Sep00012880
Oct01313830
Nov21191822210
Dec78117400

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 Akwanga is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 10 · 6 km/hOct 18 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Akwanga

In seasonPeak

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

Akwanga's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Akwanga sees seasonal dust haze (January–May), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Akwanga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Akwanga is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 time of year to visit Akwanga for general outdoor tourist activities is from early October to late January, with a peak score in the second week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 9 · 4.6

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.9poor
May3.4poor
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.5fair
Oct4.0fair
Nov4.5fair
Dec4.3fair

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 Akwanga for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 8.0

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 Akwanga, 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 March (highs near 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Akwanga sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Akwanga 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 Akwanga peaks around September 17 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highSep 17UV 12Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb8Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Akwanga

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 September 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)
Jan74.5
Feb74.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr85.5
May7.55
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Akwanga 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 Akwanga is worst in February — around 99 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.1× the cleanest month (July, 24 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1298 µg/m³Jul 2125 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan90Unhealthy
Feb99Unhealthy
Mar78Unhealthy
Apr60Unhealthy
May36Poor
Jun29Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug26Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct47Poor
Nov55Poor
Dec76Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Akwanga 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. Akwanga banks about 6,049 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan505
Feb514
Mar621
Apr583
May539
Jun471
Jul455
Aug446
Sep447
Oct486
Nov489
Dec494

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.

Akwanga receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 24 to Apr 28. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 16.5 kWhAug 63.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr5.7Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug3.6Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov6.0Bright
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Akwanga?

Akwanga sits at 8.9°N, 8.4°E, 454 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Wamba, 22 km away.

KafanchanKagoroNasarawaAbuja

Topography around Akwanga

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Akwanga has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 110 m around an average of 448 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 725 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,457 m.

The land around Akwanga is covered by cropland (49%) and artificial surfaces (29%) within 3 km, shrubs (34%), cropland (24%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (50%) and shrubs (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
110 m
16 km
725 m
80 km
1,457 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Wamba 22 km · Lafia 48 km · Doma 58 km · Keffi 59 km · Kafanchan 76 km · Kagoro 78 km · Nasarawa 87 km · Abuja 101 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 Akwanga (8.9108°, 8.4065°, elevation 454 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).