Climate and average weather in Dutsen Wai

In Dutsen Wai, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dutsen Wai typically varies from 15°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 38°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Dutsen Wai for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and late November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
36°
Coldest
Aug
20°
Wettest
Aug
258 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
952 mm
131 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
694 m
10.9°N
Clearest
Dec
28% cloud

Dutsen Wai is human settlement in Nigeria.

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

Dutsen Wai 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 late November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.3 months, from February 28 to May 8, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Dutsen Wai is April, with an average high of 36°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from June 28 to September 20, with daily high temperatures below 29°C. The coldest month of the year in Dutsen Wai is August, with an average low of 20°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3015
Feb3218
Mar3521
Apr3623
May3323
Jun3022
Jul2821
Aug2720
Sep2920
Oct3019
Nov3117
Dec3015

How hot and cold Dutsen Wai 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, Dutsen Wai feels like about 36°C (around April 2). About 138 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29301515
Feb32321718
Mar35352121
Apr36362323
May35332323
Jun32302222
Jul30282121
Aug29272020
Sep31292020
Oct32301919
Nov31311717
Dec30301515

Average hourly temperature in Dutsen Wai

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 20°C.

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

Dutsen Wai 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° / 15°0011.46.8
Feb32° / 18°10.111.64.9
Mar35° / 21°20.411.93.0
Apr36° / 23°224.912.22.3
May33° / 23°9015.512.53.0
Jun30° / 22°13520.612.63.7
Jul28° / 21°17224.912.63.9
Aug27° / 20°25827.312.43.7
Sep29° / 20°20025.512.13.5
Oct30° / 19°7111.511.84.6
Nov31° / 17°00.111.55.7
Dec30° / 15°10.111.46.9

Chance of rain

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

Dutsen Wai gets about 952 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 5.5 months, from around May 1 to Oct 15, 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 258 mm over about 27 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 13 · 88%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr175
May4916
Jun6921
Jul8025
Aug8827
Sep8426
Oct3712
Nov20
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dutsen Wai collects about 952 mm of rain across 131 wet days — roughly 79 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 258 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 66% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1222901351722582007101
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar20
Apr225
May9016
Jun13521
Jul17225
Aug25827
Sep20026
Oct7112
Nov00
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dutsen Wai, 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 20 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 19. 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 20 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 19. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 5 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7624
Feb7228
Mar6337
Apr5149
May4357
Jun3565
Jul1387
Aug892
Sep2476
Oct4654
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 May 25, 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)
Jan11.46:546:19
Feb11.66:536:31
Mar11.96:396:35
Apr12.26:206:35
May12.56:096:38
Jun12.66:096:46
Jul12.66:156:50
Aug12.46:206:42
Sep12.16:206:23
Oct11.86:206:05
Nov11.56:285:57
Dec11.46:426:04

Sunny days

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

Dutsen Wai averages about 10 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 5.8 months, from around Oct 22 to Apr 16. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2322 daysAug 20 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov17Bright
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 Dutsen Wai, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around April 17 to October 27. 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 28 to April 16, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 100%Jun 7 · 0%oppressivehumidcomfortabledrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb971100
Mar847730
Apr381017304
May4485431
Jun0006138
Jul0008218
Aug0008713
Sep0006337
Oct119124029
Nov8010641
Dec991000

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 Dutsen Wai is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Nov 15 to May 10. The windiest month is January, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 19 to Nov 14, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 5 · 12 km/hSep 17 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Dutsen Wai

In seasonPeak

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

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

Dutsen Wai sees seasonal dust haze (February–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Dutsen Wai

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early December, Dutsen Wai is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Dutsen Wai for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 7.5

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
Jan6.8good
Feb4.9fair
Mar3.0poor
Apr2.3poor
May3.0poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct4.6fair
Nov5.7good
Dec6.9good

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 Dutsen Wai for hot-weather activities is from late October to early March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 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 Dutsen Wai, 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 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Dutsen Wai sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dutsen Wai 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 Dutsen Wai peaks around August 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 7 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highVery highExtremeVery highAug 19UV 12Dec 21UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7Very high
Feb7High
Mar10Extreme
Apr9Very high
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Dutsen Wai

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)
Jan63
Feb6.53
Mar7.55
Apr7.55
May7.54.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec62.5

Air quality in Dutsen Wai 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 Dutsen Wai is worst in February — around 115 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (July, 27 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 15113 µg/m³Jul 2327 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan106Unhealthy
Feb115Unhealthy
Mar106Unhealthy
Apr78Unhealthy
May48Poor
Jun37Poor
Jul27Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep43Poor
Oct69Unhealthy
Nov77Unhealthy
Dec97Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dutsen Wai 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. Dutsen Wai banks about 5,542 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)
Jan381
Feb418
Mar557
Apr585
May563
Jun474
Jul442
Aug428
Sep433
Oct460
Nov419
Dec383

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.

Dutsen Wai receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around Oct 14 to May 31. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 277.1 kWhAug 84.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr6.8Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Dutsen Wai?

Dutsen Wai sits at 10.9°N, 8.2°E, 694 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Soba, 21 km away.

RanoKadunaKachiaGwarzo

Topography around Dutsen Wai

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dutsen Wai has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 148 m around an average of 698 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 211 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 759 m.

The land around Dutsen Wai is covered by cropland (81%) within 3 km, cropland (90%) within 16 km, and cropland (74%) within 80 km.

3 km
148 m
16 km
211 m
80 km
759 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Soba 21 km · Anchau 25 km · Zaria 60 km · Lere 66 km · Rano 89 km · Kaduna 91 km · Kachia 112 km · Gwarzo 122 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 Dutsen Wai (10.8501°, 8.199°, elevation 694 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).