Climate and average weather in Ikare

In Ikare, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: late October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ikare typically varies from 21°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 37°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ikare for warm-weather activities are from late July to late August and late October to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Sep
221 mm
Driest
Dec
5 mm
Rain / yr
1394 mm
198 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
423 m
7.5°N
Clearest
Dec
36% cloud

Ikare is Town in Ondo State, Nigeria..

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

Ikare 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 October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ikare stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 21°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3321
Feb3422
Mar3423
Apr3223
May3123
Jun2922
Jul2822
Aug2821
Sep2922
Oct3022
Nov3222
Dec3321

How hot and cold Ikare 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, Ikare feels like about 38°C (around March 28). About 276 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332121
Feb36342222
Mar38342323
Apr37322323
May35312323
Jun33292222
Jul31282222
Aug30282121
Sep32292222
Oct33302222
Nov35322222
Dec33332121

Average hourly temperature in Ikare

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 21°C.

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

Ikare 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° / 21°92.211.64.0
Feb34° / 22°20511.83.2
Mar34° / 23°6212.611.92.8
Apr32° / 23°10216.612.23.0
May31° / 23°16122.912.33.1
Jun29° / 22°20225.912.43.2
Jul28° / 22°20327.612.43.5
Aug28° / 21°21125.612.23.8
Sep29° / 22°22126.9123.2
Oct30° / 22°16523.811.83.4
Nov32° / 22°347.211.74.2
Dec33° / 21°51.511.64.5

Chance of rain

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

Ikare gets about 1394 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 6.5 months, from around Apr 16 to Oct 30, peaking in July at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 25.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 221 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 11 · 91%Dec 25 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb195
Mar4113
Apr5517
May7323
Jun8626
Jul8928
Aug8426
Sep8927
Oct7424
Nov267
Dec52

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ikare collects about 1394 mm of rain across 198 wet days — roughly 116 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 221 mm, while December is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec92062102161202203211221165345
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan92
Feb205
Mar6213
Apr10217
May16123
Jun20226
Jul20328
Aug21126
Sep22127
Oct16524
Nov347
Dec52

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ikare, 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 31 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around March 13. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 14 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around October 30. The cloudiest month is August, 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 21 · 82%Aug 26 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb5248
Mar3169
Apr2278
May1684
Jun1090
Jul496
Aug397
Sep793
Oct1882
Nov5248
Dec7723

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 18, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:586:34
Feb11.86:596:44
Mar11.96:486:45
Apr12.26:326:42
May12.36:236:43
Jun12.46:246:50
Jul12.46:316:55
Aug12.26:346:49
Sep12.06:306:33
Oct11.86:276:17
Nov11.76:336:12
Dec11.66:466:20

Sunny days

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

Ikare averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Nov 2 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2320 daysJul 80 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov10Mixed
Dec18Bright

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 Ikare, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.8 months, from around March 6 to November 29. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 30 to March 5, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 41% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 48%Apr 4 · 0%humidoppressivecomfortablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan3291431140
Feb174929410
Mar31213801
Apr0003961
May0001981
Jun0005950
Jul00029710
Aug00043570
Sep00016840
Oct0006940
Nov11429650
Dec2081538190

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 Ikare is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Feb 2 to May 27. The windiest month is April, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 3 · 9 km/hOct 18 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Ikare

In seasonPeak

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

Ikare's monsoon runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ikare sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Ikare

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Ikare 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 times of year to visit Ikare for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late August and again from late October to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 4.6

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb3.2poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr3.0poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.2fair
Dec4.5fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 8.0

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 Ikare, 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 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ikare sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ikare 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 Ikare peaks around September 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near February 9 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 19UV 12Feb 9UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb8Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ikare

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
Feb6.54
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ikare 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 Ikare is worst in January — around 148 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.6× the cleanest month (July, 32 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 18146 µg/m³Jul 2133 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan148Unhealthy
Feb136Unhealthy
Mar72Unhealthy
Apr58Unhealthy
May40Poor
Jun36Poor
Jul32Moderate
Aug34Moderate
Sep40Poor
Oct58Unhealthy
Nov77Unhealthy
Dec128Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ikare 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. Ikare banks about 6,017 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)
Jan525
Feb511
Mar576
Apr533
May521
Jun470
Jul459
Aug452
Sep453
Oct492
Nov507
Dec519

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.

Ikare receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 1 to May 9. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 95.8 kWhAug 153.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun4.3Bright
Jul4.0Moderate
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Ikare?

Ikare sits at 7.5°N, 5.8°E, 423 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Ode, 30 km away.

Topography around Ikare

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ikare has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 273 m around an average of 442 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 524 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 751 m.

The land around Ikare is covered by trees (54%) and artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, trees (76%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) within 80 km.

3 km
273 m
16 km
524 m
80 km
751 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Ode 30 km · Emure-Ekiti 34 km · Ise-Ekiti 37 km · Owo 41 km · Kabba 49 km · Ogaminana 52 km · Okene 53 km · Ikere-Ekiti 58 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 Ikare (7.5259°, 5.7534°, elevation 423 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).