Climate and average weather in Amaigbo

In Amaigbo, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Amaigbo typically varies from 23°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 39°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 Amaigbo for warm-weather activities are from late July to late August and early November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
36°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Sep
246 mm
Driest
Dec
9 mm
Rain / yr
1653 mm
220 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
84 m
5.8°N
Clearest
Dec
47% cloud

Amaigbo is town in Nwangele Local Government Area Imo state, Nigeria.

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

Amaigbo 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 November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Amaigbo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 36°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3523
Feb3624
Mar3525
Apr3324
May3224
Jun3023
Jul2923
Aug2923
Sep3023
Oct3023
Nov3223
Dec3423

How hot and cold Amaigbo 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, Amaigbo feels like about 40°C (around March 6). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 64 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)
Jan37352323
Feb39362424
Mar40352525
Apr39332424
May38322424
Jun34302323
Jul32292323
Aug32292323
Sep33302323
Oct35302323
Nov36322323
Dec37342323

Average hourly temperature in Amaigbo

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Amaigbo 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
Jan35° / 23°102.211.72.7
Feb36° / 24°255.411.82.2
Mar35° / 25°7013.9122.3
Apr33° / 24°14220.712.12.5
May32° / 24°19126.312.32.5
Jun30° / 23°21927.412.32.8
Jul29° / 23°22527.712.33.1
Aug29° / 23°22726.412.23.2
Sep30° / 23°24628.5122.7
Oct30° / 23°22627.811.92.7
Nov32° / 23°631211.73.6
Dec34° / 23°9211.73.6

Chance of rain

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

Amaigbo gets about 1653 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 7.1 months, from around Apr 6 to Nov 6, peaking in September at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 25.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 246 mm over about 29 wet days; December is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 9 · 95%Dec 25 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb205
Mar4514
Apr6821
May8526
Jun9127
Jul8928
Aug8626
Sep9529
Oct8828
Nov4112
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Amaigbo collects about 1653 mm of rain across 220 wet days — roughly 138 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 246 mm, while December is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec102570142191219225227246226639
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan102
Feb255
Mar7014
Apr14221
May19126
Jun21927
Jul22528
Aug22726
Sep24629
Oct22628
Nov6312
Dec92

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Amaigbo, 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 November 9 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 11. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 12 and lasts for 8.0 months, ending around November 8. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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 23 · 73%Sep 8 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb4258
Mar1981
Apr1090
May892
Jun793
Jul496
Aug397
Sep397
Oct595
Nov3070
Dec6634

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. Close to the equator, Amaigbo barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:476:29
Feb11.86:496:38
Mar12.06:396:37
Apr12.16:256:33
May12.36:176:33
Jun12.36:196:39
Jul12.36:256:43
Aug12.26:276:38
Sep12.06:226:24
Oct11.96:186:10
Nov11.76:226:06
Dec11.76:356:15

Sunny days

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

Amaigbo averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Nov 14 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2516 daysJun 90 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec14Mixed

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 Amaigbo, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.1 months, from around March 2 to December 4. 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 5 to March 1, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 23% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 9 · 27%Mar 21 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1671226391
Feb74619604
Mar10147618
Apr00005743
May00005149
Jun00008614
Jul0001981
Aug0001990
Sep0000991
Oct00009010
Nov00138313
Dec65922562

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 28 · 8 km/hOct 15 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Amaigbo

In seasonPeak

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

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

Amaigbo sees seasonal dust haze (December–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Amaigbo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Amaigbo 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 Amaigbo for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late August and again from early November to early January, with a peak score in the last week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 28 · 3.9

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
Jan2.7poor
Feb2.2poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov3.6fair
Dec3.6fair

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 Amaigbo for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late January, with a peak score in the third week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 16 · 7.2

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 Amaigbo, 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 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Amaigbo sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Amaigbo 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 Amaigbo peaks around March 24 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 13 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 highExtremeExtremeVery highMar 24UV 13Jan 13UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Amaigbo

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)
Jan6.54
Feb74.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov7.55
Dec6.54

Air quality in Amaigbo 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 Amaigbo is worst in January — around 195 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 3.0× the cleanest month (July, 64 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyVery unhealthyJan 11194 µg/m³Jul 2464 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan195Very unhealthy
Feb167Very unhealthy
Mar102Unhealthy
Apr94Unhealthy
May80Unhealthy
Jun74Unhealthy
Jul64Unhealthy
Aug64Unhealthy
Sep75Unhealthy
Oct94Unhealthy
Nov110Unhealthy
Dec191Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Amaigbo 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. Amaigbo banks about 6,454 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)
Jan592
Feb558
Mar608
Apr559
May548
Jun497
Jul494
Aug493
Sep487
Oct518
Nov527
Dec572

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.

Amaigbo receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Nov 15 to May 2. The brightest month is January, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 115.6 kWhJul 283.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.4Bright
Jun3.9Moderate
Jul3.7Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct4.0Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Amaigbo?

Amaigbo sits at 5.8°N, 7.8°E, 84 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Afikpo, 16 km away.

Topography around Amaigbo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Amaigbo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 245 m around an average of 100 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 267 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 858 m.

The land around Amaigbo is covered by trees (88%) within 3 km, trees (70%) within 16 km, and trees (76%) within 80 km.

3 km
245 m
16 km
267 m
80 km
858 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Afikpo 16 km · Ohafia-Ifigh 20 km · Ugep 27 km · Bende 34 km · Umuahia 48 km · Awgu 51 km · Okigwe 54 km · Abakaliki 67 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 Amaigbo (5.7892°, 7.8383°, elevation 84 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).