Climate and average weather in Daura

In Daura, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and clear.

Best: mid December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Daura typically varies from 14°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 41°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Daura for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
39°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
Aug
175 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
407 mm
63 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
475 m
13.0°N
Clearest
Dec
27% cloud

Daura is city in Katsina State, Nigeria.

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

Daura 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 mid December to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Daura, 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 March 16 to June 13, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Daura is April, with an average high of 39°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 1.5 months, from December 12 to January 26, with daily high temperatures below 30°C. The coldest month of the year in Daura is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in February.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2914
Feb3217
Mar3621
Apr3924
May3826
Jun3625
Jul3224
Aug3023
Sep3223
Oct3521
Nov3318
Dec3014

How hot and cold Daura 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, Daura feels like about 39°C (around June 5). About 288 days a year carry some heat stress, and 27 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291414
Feb32321717
Mar36362021
Apr39392424
May39382626
Jun38362525
Jul35322424
Aug34302323
Sep36322323
Oct35352121
Nov33331818
Dec30301414

Average hourly temperature in Daura

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 April afternoons, near 39°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 14°C.

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

Daura 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
Jan29° / 14°0011.37.2
Feb32° / 17°0011.65.1
Mar36° / 21°00.111.92.4
Apr39° / 24°20.712.30.8
May38° / 26°133.412.61.0
Jun36° / 25°358.412.82.2
Jul32° / 24°10717.912.73.2
Aug30° / 23°17520.812.43.5
Sep32° / 23°679.912.13.8
Oct35° / 21°71.711.73.1
Nov33° / 18°0011.44.4
Dec30° / 14°0011.26.8

Chance of rain

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

Daura gets about 407 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.1 months, from around May 27 to Sep 27, peaking in August at about 69% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 175 mm over about 21 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 13 · 69%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr21
May113
Jun298
Jul5718
Aug6621
Sep3310
Oct62
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Daura collects about 407 mm of rain across 63 wet days — roughly 34 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 175 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 86% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec021335107175677
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr21
May133
Jun358
Jul10718
Aug17521
Sep6710
Oct72
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Daura, 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 September 23 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around April 18. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 30 and lasts for 2.8 months, ending around September 22. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 26 · 84%Aug 14 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8218
Feb8119
Mar7327
Apr6832
May6733
Jun7426
Jul4852
Aug3268
Sep5743
Oct7327
Nov7525
Dec8119

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 June 11, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:576:15
Feb11.66:546:28
Mar11.96:396:34
Apr12.36:186:36
May12.66:056:41
Jun12.86:046:50
Jul12.76:116:53
Aug12.46:186:44
Sep12.16:196:23
Oct11.76:216:03
Nov11.46:305:54
Dec11.26:466:00

Sunny days

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

Daura averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.7 months, from around Sep 28 to Apr 19. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 81% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2722 daysAug 84 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan22Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr16Bright
May16Bright
Jun17Bright
Jul8Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep11Mixed
Oct18Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around May 4 to October 16. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 17 to May 3, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 13 · 100%Jul 2 · 0%humidoppressivedrymuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb991000
Mar972100
Apr72121240
May241628284
Jun22136617
Jul0014258
Aug0001189
Sep1122076
Oct458112313
Nov981100
Dec1000000

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 Daura is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 7 to Apr 9. The windiest month is January, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 23 to Nov 6, with September the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 13 km/hSep 14 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov11calm
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Daura

In seasonPeak

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

Daura sees dust haze year-round, heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Daura

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 3 · 7.9

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
Jan7.2good
Feb5.0fair
Mar2.4poor
Apr0.8poor
May1.0poor
Jun2.2poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.2poor
Nov4.4fair
Dec6.8good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 9.2

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 Daura, 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 April (highs near 39°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Daura sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Daura 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 Daura peaks around August 15 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 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 highAug 15UV 12Dec 17UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Daura

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov74.5
Dec63.5

Air quality in Daura 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 Daura is worst in February — around 120 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.5× the cleanest month (August, 34 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorPoorUnhealthyFeb 18119 µg/m³Aug 1234 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan113Unhealthy
Feb120Unhealthy
Mar117Unhealthy
Apr100Unhealthy
May72Unhealthy
Jun55Unhealthy
Jul37Poor
Aug34Moderate
Sep50Poor
Oct80Unhealthy
Nov88Unhealthy
Dec106Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Daura 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. Daura banks about 6,260 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan354
Feb404
Mar570
Apr640
May683
Jun616
Jul554
Aug512
Sep529
Oct564
Nov461
Dec373

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.

Daura receives about 6.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.5 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 8 to Jul 3. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.6 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 67.4 kWhAug 125.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar7.2Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.3Intense
Oct6.4Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Daura?

Daura sits at 13.0°N, 8.3°E, 475 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Matamey, 46 km away.

KatsinaAguiéTessaouaZinderMirriah

Topography around Daura

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Daura has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 39 m around an average of 472 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 88 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 227 m.

The land around Daura is covered by cropland (42%), artificial surfaces (32%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (68%) and grassland (25%) within 16 km, and cropland (70%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
39 m
16 km
88 m
80 km
227 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Matamey 46 km · Magaria 64 km · Gazaoua 70 km · Katsina 78 km · Aguié 79 km · Tessaoua 88 km · Zinder 112 km · Mirriah 117 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 Daura (13.033°, 8.3235°, elevation 475 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).