Climate and average weather in Burutu

In Burutu, 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 July.

Best: early January to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Burutu typically varies from 24°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 23°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 Burutu for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and mid December to late December.

Hottest
Feb
30°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Jul
383 mm
Driest
Jan
57 mm
Rain / yr
2823 mm
308 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
5.4°N
Clearest
Dec
53% cloud

Burutu is Local government areas in Delta State,in Nigeria..

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

Burutu 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 early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Burutu stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 30°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
Feb3026
Mar3026
Apr3026
May3025
Jun2824
Jul2724
Aug2724
Sep2724
Oct2824
Nov2925
Dec3025

How hot and cold Burutu 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, Burutu feels like about 38°C (around March 3). About 238 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35302525
Feb37302626
Mar38302626
Apr37302626
May36302525
Jun32282424
Jul28272424
Aug27272424
Sep30272424
Oct32282424
Nov35292525
Dec35302525

Average hourly temperature in Burutu

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Burutu 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°5714.311.74.6
Feb30° / 26°8818.611.83.6
Mar30° / 26°17626.6122.9
Apr30° / 26°23827.412.12.8
May30° / 25°31429.712.22.8
Jun28° / 24°38129.512.33.1
Jul27° / 24°38328.812.33.5
Aug27° / 24°27627.312.23.7
Sep27° / 24°32129.4123.3
Oct28° / 24°33830.611.93.0
Nov29° / 25°18527.811.83.0
Dec30° / 25°6718.111.74.2

Chance of rain

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

Burutu gets about 2823 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 8.5 months, from around Mar 13 to Nov 26, peaking in September at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 6.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 383 mm over about 29 wet days; January is the driest, with 57 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 26 · 99%Jan 6 · 40%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4714
Feb6719
Mar8527
Apr9127
May9630
Jun9830
Jul9229
Aug8927
Sep9729
Oct9931
Nov9228
Dec5918

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Burutu collects about 2823 mm of rain across 308 wet days — roughly 235 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 383 mm, while January is the driest at just 57 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec578817623831438138327632133818567
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan5714
Feb8819
Mar17627
Apr23827
May31430
Jun38130
Jul38329
Aug27627
Sep32129
Oct33831
Nov18528
Dec6718

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Burutu, 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 8 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around March 11. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 12 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around November 7. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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 · 67%Sep 24 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb3565
Mar1783
Apr1090
May694
Jun595
Jul496
Aug694
Sep298
Oct595
Nov2773
Dec5941

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, Burutu 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)
Jan11.76:566:39
Feb11.86:586:47
Mar12.06:496:47
Apr12.16:356:42
May12.26:276:41
Jun12.36:296:47
Jul12.36:356:52
Aug12.26:376:47
Sep12.06:316:33
Oct11.96:276:19
Nov11.86:316:16
Dec11.76:436:25

Sunny days

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

Burutu averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Nov 21 to Mar 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 2513 daysJun 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb5Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec10Mixed

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.

Burutu 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 January, 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 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1274942
Feb0012771
Mar000892
Apr000496
May0001882
Jun0007525
Jul001971
Aug001990
Sep000982
Oct0007921
Nov0004555
Dec0034750

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 Burutu is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around Jun 27 to Sep 22. The windiest month is August, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 23 to Jan 16, with October the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 6 · 12 km/hOct 30 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Burutu

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Burutu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Burutu 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 Burutu for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 4.9

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar2.9poor
Apr2.7poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov3.0poor
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 Burutu for hot-weather activities is from mid December to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 6.6

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 Burutu, 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.

Burutu packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Burutu sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Burutu

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 15 km away) is warmest in March at about 30°C and coldest in August near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar30Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct28Warm
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Burutu 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 Burutu peaks around March 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 23UV 13Dec 22UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Burutu

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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74

Air quality in Burutu 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 Burutu is worst in January — around 86 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 6.7× the cleanest month (September, 13 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateJan 1784 µg/m³Sep 1213 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan86Unhealthy
Feb71Unhealthy
Mar38Poor
Apr31Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec68Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Burutu 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. Burutu banks about 6,130 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)
Jan536
Feb501
Mar561
Apr536
May536
Jun486
Jul478
Aug473
Sep468
Oct504
Nov513
Dec538

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.

Burutu receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 5.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Nov 4 to May 9. The brightest month is January, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the January peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightJan 95.2 kWhJul 43.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar4.9Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.6Moderate
Jul3.5Moderate
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct4.0Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Burutu?

Burutu sits at 5.4°N, 5.5°E, 7 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Warri, 32 km away.

YenagoaKwaleBenin CityAgborOgwashi-Uku

Topography around Burutu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Burutu has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 26 m around an average of 4 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 27 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 60 m.

The land around Burutu is covered by mangroves (69%) and water (23%) within 3 km, mangroves (71%) and water (20%) within 16 km, and trees (41%), water (29%) and mangroves (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
26 m
16 km
27 m
80 km
60 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Warri 32 km · Ughelli 57 km · Sapele 63 km · Yenagoa 97 km · Kwale 110 km · Benin City 110 km · Agbor 126 km · Ogwashi-Uku 145 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 Burutu (5.3533°, 5.5083°, elevation 7 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).