Climate and average weather in Ibi

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

Best: early June to late November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ibi typically varies from 22°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 40°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 Ibi for warm-weather activities are from early June to late November and early December to mid January.

Hottest
Mar
38°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Aug
183 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
704 mm
103 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
109 m
8.2°N
Clearest
Dec
30% cloud

Ibi 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 June to late November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ibi, 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 February 1 to April 23, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Ibi is March, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from June 26 to October 13, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Ibi is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3522
Feb3724
Mar3826
Apr3727
May3426
Jun3225
Jul3124
Aug3024
Sep3024
Oct3224
Nov3423
Dec3522

How hot and cold Ibi 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, Ibi feels like about 41°C (around April 11). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 67 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352222
Feb37372424
Mar39382626
Apr41372727
May39342626
Jun36322525
Jul34312424
Aug33302424
Sep34302424
Oct36322424
Nov36342323
Dec35352222

Average hourly temperature in Ibi

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Ibi 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° / 22°00.111.63.2
Feb37° / 24°20.311.71.9
Mar38° / 26°71.211.91.1
Apr37° / 27°294.612.21.7
May34° / 26°7010.612.42.7
Jun32° / 25°7211.712.53.6
Jul31° / 24°10618.412.43.6
Aug30° / 24°18322.912.33.4
Sep30° / 24°15120.1123.4
Oct32° / 24°7811.711.83.8
Nov34° / 23°60.911.63.4
Dec35° / 22°00.111.53.4

Chance of rain

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

Ibi gets about 704 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 5.7 months, from around May 2 to Oct 23, peaking in August at about 77% 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 183 mm over about 23 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 27 · 77%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar41
Apr165
May3411
Jun3912
Jul5918
Aug7323
Sep6720
Oct3612
Nov51
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ibi collects about 704 mm of rain across 103 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 183 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0272970721061831517860
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb20
Mar71
Apr295
May7011
Jun7212
Jul10618
Aug18323
Sep15120
Oct7812
Nov61
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ibi, 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 28 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 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 13 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 27. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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 · 82%Aug 5 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb6337
Mar4951
Apr3664
May2575
Jun1684
Jul1288
Aug991
Sep1189
Oct2872
Nov5941
Dec7822

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 5, 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)
Jan11.66:436:17
Feb11.76:446:28
Mar11.96:326:29
Apr12.26:166:27
May12.46:066:28
Jun12.56:076:35
Jul12.46:146:40
Aug12.36:176:33
Sep12.06:146:17
Oct11.86:126:01
Nov11.66:185:55
Dec11.56:316:03

Sunny days

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

Ibi 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 5.1 months, from around Nov 1 to Apr 3. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2222 daysJul 260 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb13Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
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 Ibi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.9 months, from around March 20 to November 13. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 14 to March 19, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 83% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 29 · 96%May 3 · 0%humidoppressivemuggydrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8445600
Feb635101940
Mar2461140190
Apr33427631
May0004932
Jun0002981
Jul0003970
Aug0002980
Sep0000991
Oct0012942
Nov2110919401
Dec7856830

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 Ibi is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 8.0 months, from around Dec 12 to Aug 10. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 11 to Dec 11, with November the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 5 · 12 km/hNov 3 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Ibi

In seasonPeak

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

Ibi's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ibi sees seasonal dust haze (December–May), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Ibi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Ibi 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 Ibi for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late January, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 18 · 3.9

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
Jan3.2poor
Feb1.9poor
Mar1.1poor
Apr1.7poor
May2.7poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.4poor

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 Ibi for hot-weather activities is from mid October to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 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 Ibi, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Ibi sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ibi 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 Ibi peaks around September 18 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 highSep 18UV 12Dec 20UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ibi

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
Feb75
Mar86
Apr7.55.5
May7.55.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug85.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ibi 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 Ibi is worst in January — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.6× the cleanest month (July, 21 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 2397 µg/m³Jul 1722 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan98Unhealthy
Feb96Unhealthy
Mar74Unhealthy
Apr54Poor
May29Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct35Moderate
Nov45Poor
Dec75Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ibi 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. Ibi banks about 6,907 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)
Jan572
Feb572
Mar689
Apr657
May624
Jun552
Jul535
Aug517
Sep509
Oct551
Nov561
Dec569

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.

Ibi receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 30 to May 4. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 266.5 kWhAug 164.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Ibi?

Ibi sits at 8.2°N, 9.7°E, 109 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Wukari, 35 km away.

TakumKatsina-AlaGbokoPankshinLafiaBeliMakurdi

Topography around Ibi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ibi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m around an average of 92 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 89 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 296 m.

The land around Ibi is covered by cropland (50%) within 3 km, shrubs (42%) and cropland (29%) within 16 km, and cropland (53%) and shrubs (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
34 m
16 km
89 m
80 km
296 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Wukari 35 km · Takum 105 km · Katsina-Ala 123 km · Gboko 126 km · Pankshin 132 km · Lafia 140 km · Beli 140 km · Makurdi 144 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 Ibi (8.1812°, 9.7443°, elevation 109 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).