Climate and average weather in Doma

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

Best: mid September to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Doma typically varies from 21°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 39°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Doma for warm-weather activities are from early June to mid August and mid September to late December.

Hottest
Mar
37°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
241 mm
Driest
Jan
1 mm
Rain / yr
992 mm
133 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
157 m
8.4°N
Clearest
Dec
30% cloud

Doma 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 September to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from January 16 to April 19, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Doma is March, with an average high of 37°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from June 19 to October 5, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Doma is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3521
Feb3723
Mar3726
Apr3626
May3325
Jun3124
Jul2923
Aug2923
Sep3023
Oct3123
Nov3423
Dec3521

How hot and cold Doma 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, Doma feels like about 40°C (around April 8). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 47 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352121
Feb37372323
Mar39372626
Apr40362626
May38332525
Jun35312424
Jul33292323
Aug32292323
Sep34302323
Oct35312323
Nov35342323
Dec35352121

Average hourly temperature in Doma

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 March afternoons, near 37°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Doma 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° / 21°10.211.63.0
Feb37° / 23°30.511.72.0
Mar37° / 26°122.211.91.6
Apr36° / 26°355.912.22.3
May33° / 25°9513.612.43.1
Jun31° / 24°14319.312.53.4
Jul29° / 23°18625.212.43.3
Aug29° / 23°24126.912.33.3
Sep30° / 23°19323.4123.3
Oct31° / 23°7914.411.83.9
Nov34° / 23°40.911.63.8
Dec35° / 21°10.111.53.3

Chance of rain

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

Doma gets about 992 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.6 months, from around May 6 to Oct 21, peaking in August at about 88% 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 241 mm over about 27 wet days; January is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 25 · 88%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb21
Mar82
Apr206
May4414
Jun6419
Jul8125
Aug8627
Sep7823
Oct4514
Nov51
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Doma collects about 992 mm of rain across 133 wet days — roughly 83 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 241 mm, while January is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec131235951431862411937941
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb31
Mar122
Apr356
May9514
Jun14319
Jul18625
Aug24127
Sep19323
Oct7914
Nov41
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Doma, 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 27 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 12. 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 April 13 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 26. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 · 83%Aug 26 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7327
Feb6436
Mar4852
Apr3565
May2179
Jun1684
Jul1486
Aug1090
Sep1585
Oct3169
Nov6238
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 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:496:23
Feb11.76:496:33
Mar11.96:386:35
Apr12.26:216:32
May12.46:116:34
Jun12.56:126:41
Jul12.46:196:46
Aug12.36:226:39
Sep12.06:206:22
Oct11.86:176:06
Nov11.66:246:00
Dec11.56:376:08

Sunny days

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

Doma averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Oct 30 to Apr 5. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2022 daysAug 170 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb14Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
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 Doma, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.2 months, from around March 13 to November 17. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 18 to March 12, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 75% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 28 · 90%Apr 29 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan70911910
Feb479152450
Mar1461641220
Apr12524672
May0003907
Jun0000973
Jul0001990
Aug0002980
Sep00001000
Oct0013942
Nov9111725381
Dec6113131120

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 Doma is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Feb 12 to Aug 15. The windiest month is April, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 16 to Feb 11, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 14 · 8 km/hOct 27 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Doma

In seasonPeak

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

Doma's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Doma sees seasonal dust haze (January–May), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Doma

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Doma 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 Doma for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to mid August and again from mid September to early January, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 1 · 4.1

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
Jan3.0poor
Feb2.0poor
Mar1.6poor
Apr2.3poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.8fair
Dec3.3poor

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 Doma for hot-weather activities is from mid October to early February, with a peak score in the third week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 15 · 7.4

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 Doma, 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 March (highs near 37°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 March, Doma sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Doma 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 Doma peaks around September 17 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 highSep 17UV 12Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb8Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Doma

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 September 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
Feb74.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr7.55.5
May7.55
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Doma 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 Doma is worst in January — around 113 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.4× the cleanest month (July, 26 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 20111 µg/m³Jul 1826 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan113Unhealthy
Feb104Unhealthy
Mar74Unhealthy
Apr58Unhealthy
May35Moderate
Jun29Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct44Poor
Nov54Poor
Dec90Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Doma 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. Doma banks about 6,648 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)
Jan559
Feb561
Mar671
Apr630
May590
Jun519
Jul503
Aug494
Sep493
Oct533
Nov544
Dec551

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.

Doma receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 26. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 38% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 196.3 kWhAug 73.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.5Bright
May4.6Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.1Bright
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Doma?

Doma sits at 8.4°N, 8.4°E, 157 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Lafia, 21 km away.

MakurdiIgborAbuja

Topography around Doma

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Doma has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 m around an average of 158 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 175 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 888 m.

The land around Doma is covered by cropland (35%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, cropland (79%) within 16 km, and cropland (55%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
105 m
16 km
175 m
80 km
888 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Lafia 21 km · Akwanga 58 km · Wamba 67 km · Nasarawa 73 km · Keffi 73 km · Makurdi 76 km · Igbor 108 km · Abuja 120 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 Doma (8.3931°, 8.3554°, elevation 157 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).