Climate and average weather in Deba

In Deba, the summers are sweltering, dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Deba typically varies from 17°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 41°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
39°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
165 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
422 mm
67 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
311 m
10.2°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Deba is town in Gombe, Nigeria.

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

Deba 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 Deba, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from March 1 to May 20, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Deba is April, with an average high of 39°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.3 months, from July 15 to September 21, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Deba is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan3317
Feb3519
Mar3923
Apr3926
May3727
Jun3525
Jul3224
Aug3023
Sep3123
Oct3423
Nov3520
Dec3317

How hot and cold Deba 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, Deba feels like about 41°C (around May 11). About 348 days a year carry some heat stress, and 81 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331617
Feb35351919
Mar38392323
Apr40392626
May41372727
Jun38352525
Jul35322424
Aug34302323
Sep35312323
Oct37342323
Nov35352020
Dec33331717

Average hourly temperature in Deba

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 August, near 23°C.

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

Deba 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
Jan33° / 17°0011.54.8
Feb35° / 19°0011.73.0
Mar39° / 23°00.111.90.9
Apr39° / 26°61.612.20.5
May37° / 27°27612.51.5
Jun35° / 25°397.612.62.7
Jul32° / 24°9314.912.53.4
Aug30° / 23°16519.512.33.6
Sep31° / 23°7112.212.13.9
Oct34° / 23°225.111.83.1
Nov35° / 20°0011.53.0
Dec33° / 17°0011.44.7

Chance of rain

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

Deba gets about 422 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 5.0 months, from around May 16 to Oct 13, peaking in August at about 64% 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 165 mm over about 20 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 11 · 64%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr62
May186
Jun268
Jul4815
Aug6120
Sep4112
Oct165
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Deba collects about 422 mm of rain across 67 wet days — roughly 35 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 165 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 78% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0627399316571220
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr62
May276
Jun398
Jul9315
Aug16520
Sep7112
Oct225
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Deba, 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 11 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 11. 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 June 16 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around October 10. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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 22 · 83%Aug 14 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb7030
Mar6139
Apr5248
May5149
Jun5149
Jul2872
Aug1387
Sep3268
Oct5644
Nov7030
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 June 1, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:406:08
Feb11.76:396:19
Mar11.96:266:22
Apr12.26:086:21
May12.55:576:25
Jun12.65:576:32
Jul12.56:046:36
Aug12.36:086:29
Sep12.16:076:10
Oct11.86:065:53
Nov11.56:145:45
Dec11.46:285:53

Sunny days

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

Deba averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 11. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2222 daysAug 211 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul3Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov16Bright
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 Deba, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around April 12 to October 29. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 30 to April 11, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 2 · 100%Jun 3 · 0%oppressivedryhumidcomfortablemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9721000
Mar8267400
Apr3261735100
May22650400
Jun00045550
Jul00025750
Aug0007930
Sep0003961
Oct97822550
Nov74107720
Dec9910000

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Apr 1 to Aug 5. The windiest month is June, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 6 to Dec 1, with October the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 12 · 10 km/hOct 20 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Deba

In seasonPeak

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

Deba sees seasonal dust haze (December–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Deba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 5.4

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar1.0poor
Apr0.6poor
May1.5poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.1poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec4.6fair

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 Deba 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 31 · 8.4

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 Deba, 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 August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Deba sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Deba 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 Deba peaks around August 22 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 highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highAug 22UV 12Dec 17UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Deba

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 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
Apr85.5
May7.55
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.56
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Deba 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 Deba is worst in February — around 102 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.3× the cleanest month (July, 24 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 21102 µg/m³Jul 2124 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan93Unhealthy
Feb102Unhealthy
Mar101Unhealthy
Apr72Unhealthy
May41Poor
Jun32Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug26Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct52Poor
Nov61Unhealthy
Dec84Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Deba 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. Deba banks about 6,712 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan450
Feb481
Mar640
Apr681
May685
Jun602
Jul555
Aug516
Sep520
Oct588
Nov531
Dec463

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.

Deba receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Jan 4 to Jun 9. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 277.2 kWhAug 134.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.5Intense
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Deba?

Deba sits at 10.2°N, 11.4°E, 311 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Garko, 25 km away.

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Topography around Deba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Deba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 56 m around an average of 313 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 306 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 933 m.

The land around Deba is covered by cropland (65%) and grassland (29%) within 3 km, cropland (72%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and cropland (63%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
56 m
16 km
306 m
80 km
933 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Garko 25 km · Gombe 26 km · Kumo 27 km · Biliri 42 km · Pindiga 54 km · Dukku 96 km · Nafada 98 km · Biu 99 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 Deba (10.2119°, 11.3871°, elevation 311 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).