Climate and average weather in Ihiala

In Ihiala, the summers are muggy, sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early November to mid January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ihiala typically varies from 23°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 38°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ihiala for warm-weather activities are from mid July to late August and early November to mid January.

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Jul
23°
Wettest
Sep
282 mm
Driest
Dec
16 mm
Rain / yr
2017 mm
236 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
146 m
5.9°N
Clearest
Dec
49% cloud

Ihiala 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 November to mid January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ihiala stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 35°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3523
Feb3524
Mar3424
Apr3324
May3124
Jun3023
Jul2923
Aug2923
Sep2923
Oct3023
Nov3223
Dec3323

How hot and cold Ihiala 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, Ihiala feels like about 40°C (around March 7). About 338 days a year carry some heat stress, and 84 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37352323
Feb39352424
Mar40342424
Apr40332424
May38312424
Jun34302323
Jul32292323
Aug32292323
Sep33292323
Oct35302323
Nov37322323
Dec37332223

Average hourly temperature in Ihiala

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 February afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 23°C.

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

Ihiala 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° / 23°173.811.73.1
Feb35° / 24°367.311.82.5
Mar34° / 24°10917.7122.3
Apr33° / 24°18722.812.12.5
May31° / 24°23927.312.32.5
Jun30° / 23°27628.112.32.8
Jul29° / 23°25927.712.33.2
Aug29° / 23°24626.412.23.3
Sep29° / 23°28228.7122.8
Oct30° / 23°26428.411.92.7
Nov32° / 23°861411.73.6
Dec33° / 23°163.811.73.9

Chance of rain

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

Ihiala gets about 2017 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.3 months, from around Mar 30 to Nov 6, peaking in September at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 26.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 282 mm over about 29 wet days; December is the driest, with 16 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 20 · 96%Dec 26 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb287
Mar5618
Apr7523
May8827
Jun9328
Jul9028
Aug8626
Sep9529
Oct9028
Nov4814
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ihiala collects about 2017 mm of rain across 236 wet days — roughly 168 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 282 mm, while December is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17361091872392762592462822648616
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan174
Feb367
Mar10918
Apr18723
May23927
Jun27628
Jul25928
Aug24626
Sep28229
Oct26428
Nov8614
Dec164

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ihiala, 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 November 9 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around March 7. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 65% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 8 and lasts for 8.1 months, ending around November 8. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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 · 72%Sep 7 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb4060
Mar1981
Apr1387
May1090
Jun991
Jul595
Aug595
Sep397
Oct793
Nov3169
Dec6535

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. Close to the equator, Ihiala barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:516:33
Feb11.86:536:41
Mar12.06:436:41
Apr12.16:296:37
May12.36:216:37
Jun12.36:236:43
Jul12.36:296:47
Aug12.26:316:42
Sep12.06:266:28
Oct11.96:226:14
Nov11.76:266:10
Dec11.76:396:19

Sunny days

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

Ihiala averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Nov 15 to Mar 4. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2416 daysJun 280 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec13Mixed

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 Ihiala, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.2 months, from around March 1 to December 5. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 6 to February 28, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 16% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 9 · 20%Mar 22 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1071119514
Feb345126015
Mar01135343
Apr00003367
May00003169
Jun00007327
Jul0001944
Aug0000990
Sep0000955
Oct00007921
Nov00017325
Dec34717627

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.

Wind in Ihiala is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 9 · 6 km/hOct 22 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ihiala

In seasonPeak

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

Ihiala's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ihiala sees seasonal dust haze (December–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Ihiala

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 4 · 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
Feb2.5poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep2.8poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov3.5fair
Dec3.8fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 7.3

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 Ihiala, 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 February (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ihiala sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ihiala 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 Ihiala peaks around September 22 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 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 highSep 22UV 12Jan 10UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ihiala

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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul7.55
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ihiala 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 Ihiala is worst in January — around 201 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 3.5× the cleanest month (August, 58 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyVery unhealthyJan 11201 µg/m³Aug 1058 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan201Very unhealthy
Feb171Very unhealthy
Mar100Unhealthy
Apr98Unhealthy
May83Unhealthy
Jun73Unhealthy
Jul59Unhealthy
Aug58Unhealthy
Sep70Unhealthy
Oct92Unhealthy
Nov108Unhealthy
Dec197Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ihiala 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. Ihiala banks about 6,327 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan574
Feb543
Mar589
Apr545
May541
Jun493
Jul487
Aug487
Sep481
Oct513
Nov518
Dec555

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.

Ihiala receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Nov 12 to May 11. The brightest month is January, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the January peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 95.4 kWhJul 213.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.3Bright
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug3.6Moderate
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct4.0Moderate
Nov4.5Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Ihiala?

Ihiala sits at 5.9°N, 6.9°E, 146 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Ozubulu, 11 km away.

Topography around Ihiala

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ihiala has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 114 m around an average of 107 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 168 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 484 m.

The land around Ihiala is covered by trees (58%) and artificial surfaces (27%) within 3 km, trees (73%) within 16 km, and trees (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
114 m
16 km
168 m
80 km
484 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ozubulu 11 km · Oguta 17 km · Nnewi 19 km · Atani 21 km · Igbo-Ukwu 25 km · Uga 26 km · Nkwerre 29 km · Nkpor 33 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 Ihiala (5.8548°, 6.8594°, elevation 146 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).