Climate and average weather in Alimosho

In Alimosho, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: early January to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Alimosho typically varies from 24°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 32°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 Alimosho for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and late July to late August.

Hottest
Feb
31°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Jun
270 mm
Driest
Jan
31 mm
Rain / yr
1506 mm
236 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
43 m
6.6°N
Clearest
Dec
42% cloud

Alimosho 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 January to mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Alimosho stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 31°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb3126
Mar3126
Apr3026
May3025
Jun2825
Jul2724
Aug2724
Sep2724
Oct2924
Nov3025
Dec3025

How hot and cold Alimosho 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, Alimosho feels like about 38°C (around February 27). About 244 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34302525
Feb37312626
Mar38312626
Apr38302626
May36302525
Jun32282525
Jul28272424
Aug27272424
Sep30272424
Oct32292424
Nov36302525
Dec35302525

Average hourly temperature in Alimosho

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Alimosho 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
Jan30° / 25°318.711.75.2
Feb31° / 26°4311.511.84.4
Mar31° / 26°8118.6123.7
Apr30° / 26°11720.412.13.5
May30° / 25°19625.912.33.2
Jun28° / 25°27027.612.43.4
Jul27° / 24°19224.212.34.2
Aug27° / 24°12419.112.24.9
Sep27° / 24°17524.5124.0
Oct29° / 24°17026.511.93.5
Nov30° / 25°7618.611.74.1
Dec30° / 25°3210.111.65.2

Chance of rain

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

Alimosho gets about 1506 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 3.5 months, from around Apr 13 to Jul 28, peaking in June at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 270 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 31 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 10 · 93%Dec 29 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb4212
Mar6019
Apr6720
May8426
Jun9228
Jul7724
Aug6319
Sep8125
Oct8427
Nov6219
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Alimosho collects about 1506 mm of rain across 236 wet days — roughly 126 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 270 mm, while January is the driest at just 31 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3143811171962701921241751707632
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan319
Feb4312
Mar8119
Apr11720
May19626
Jun27028
Jul19224
Aug12419
Sep17525
Oct17027
Nov7619
Dec3210

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Alimosho, 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 28 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around March 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 74% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 17 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around October 27. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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 21 · 80%Jul 14 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb5149
Mar3466
Apr2674
May1783
Jun1288
Jul991
Aug1387
Sep1288
Oct2476
Nov5446
Dec7426

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 31, 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)
Jan11.77:066:46
Feb11.87:086:55
Mar12.06:586:55
Apr12.16:436:51
May12.36:346:52
Jun12.46:366:58
Jul12.36:427:03
Aug12.26:446:57
Sep12.06:406:42
Oct11.96:366:27
Nov11.76:416:23
Dec11.66:546:32

Sunny days

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

Alimosho 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 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Nov 6 to Mar 12. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2318 daysJul 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar5Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec16Bright

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.

Alimosho is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is February, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 98% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan14583449
Feb01132175
Mar0001892
Apr0000694
May00001684
Jun00006931
Jul0000982
Aug0001990
Sep0000982
Oct00007228
Nov00003069
Dec01353457

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Alimosho is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around Jun 23 to Sep 20. The windiest month is August, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 21 to Feb 1, with November the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 4 · 15 km/hNov 1 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul14light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep12light breeze
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Alimosho

In seasonPeak

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

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

Alimosho 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 Alimosho

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Alimosho 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 times of year to visit Alimosho for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late August and again from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 5.6

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr3.5fair
May3.2poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul4.2fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.1fair
Dec5.2fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 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 Alimosho, 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.

Alimosho packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Alimosho sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Alimosho

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 27 km away) is warmest in May at about 29°C and coldest in August near 25°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Tropical
Jul26Warm
Aug25Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct28Warm
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Alimosho 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 Alimosho peaks around March 24 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near February 9 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highMar 24UV 12Feb 9UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb7Very high
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Alimosho

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 March 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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb6.54
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Alimosho 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 Alimosho is worst in January — around 139 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.7× the cleanest month (August, 37 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 14137 µg/m³Aug 1238 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan139Unhealthy
Feb117Unhealthy
Mar69Unhealthy
Apr64Unhealthy
May55Poor
Jun48Poor
Jul40Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep47Poor
Oct65Unhealthy
Nov76Unhealthy
Dec127Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Alimosho 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. Alimosho banks about 6,185 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)
Jan539
Feb509
Mar570
Apr544
May541
Jun490
Jul480
Aug469
Sep469
Oct510
Nov522
Dec543

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.

Alimosho receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 3.9 and 5.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightFeb 95.4 kWhJun 303.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May4.6Bright
Jun4.0Bright
Jul4.0Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Alimosho?

Alimosho sits at 6.6°N, 3.3°E, 43 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Akowonjo, 1.0 km away.

Topography around Alimosho

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Alimosho has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 38 m around an average of 35 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 84 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m.

The land around Alimosho is covered by artificial surfaces (86%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (71%) within 16 km, and trees (45%) and water (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
38 m
16 km
84 m
80 km
220 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Akowonjo 1.0 km · Agege 4.0 km · Ikeja 5.0 km · Oshodi 7.0 km · Mushin 10 km · Shomolu 11 km · Ota 12 km · Surulere 13 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 Alimosho (6.6066°, 3.3024°, elevation 43 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).