Climate and average weather in Ikirun

In Ikirun, the summers are 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 Ikirun typically varies from 21°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 18°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 Ikirun 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
264 mm
Driest
Dec
6 mm
Rain / yr
1498 mm
200 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
379 m
7.9°N
Clearest
Dec
37% cloud

Ikirun is town in Osun State, Nigeria.

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

Ikirun 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 Ikirun, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Ikirun 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 27°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)
Jan3321
Feb3422
Mar3323
Apr3223
May3022
Jun2922
Jul2721
Aug2721
Sep2821
Oct3021
Nov3222
Dec3321

How hot and cold Ikirun 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, Ikirun feels like about 37°C (around March 24). About 248 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)
Jan33332021
Feb35342222
Mar37332323
Apr36322323
May34302222
Jun32292222
Jul29272121
Aug28272121
Sep31282121
Oct33302121
Nov34322122
Dec33332021

Average hourly temperature in Ikirun

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

Ikirun 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°112.111.64.3
Feb34° / 22°234.611.73.3
Mar33° / 23°6613.111.92.9
Apr32° / 23°10417.812.23.1
May30° / 22°1652312.43.3
Jun29° / 22°20225.912.53.4
Jul27° / 21°20027.312.43.7
Aug27° / 21°19725.312.34.0
Sep28° / 21°26427.3123.4
Oct30° / 21°22025.211.83.3
Nov32° / 22°406.711.64.4
Dec33° / 21°61.511.54.7

Chance of rain

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

Ikirun gets about 1498 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 6.8 months, from around Apr 6 to Oct 30, peaking in September at about 92% 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 264 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 21 · 92%Dec 25 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb185
Mar4213
Apr5918
May7423
Jun8626
Jul8727
Aug8325
Sep9127
Oct7925
Nov257
Dec52

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ikirun collects about 1498 mm of rain across 200 wet days — roughly 125 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 264 mm, while December is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec112366104165202200197264220406
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan112
Feb235
Mar6613
Apr10418
May16523
Jun20226
Jul20027
Aug19725
Sep26427
Oct22025
Nov407
Dec62

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ikirun, 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 30 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around March 16. 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 17 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around October 29. 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 22 · 83%Jul 29 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb5545
Mar3268
Apr2377
May1486
Jun991
Jul496
Aug397
Sep496
Oct1585
Nov5545
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 June 11, 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)
Jan11.67:036:38
Feb11.77:046:48
Mar11.96:536:49
Apr12.26:366:47
May12.46:276:48
Jun12.56:286:55
Jul12.46:347:00
Aug12.36:386:53
Sep12.06:346:37
Oct11.86:326:21
Nov11.66:386:16
Dec11.56:516:24

Sunny days

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

Ikirun 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 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2220 daysJun 180 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
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 Ikirun, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 7 to November 26. 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 27 to March 6, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 48% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 5 · 57%Apr 6 · 0%humidoppressivecomfortablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan3991329110
Feb215931330
Mar41317750
Apr0003961
May0001971
Jun0008920
Jul00034660
Aug00051490
Sep00021790
Oct00010900
Nov23534560
Dec2691336160

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 Ikirun is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Feb 19 to Sep 2. The windiest month is April, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 3 to Feb 18, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 11 · 10 km/hOct 15 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Ikirun

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

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

Best time to visit Ikirun

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Ikirun 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 Ikirun for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late August and again from late October to early February, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 19 · 4.7

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.1poor
May3.3poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.4fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Ikirun 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 25 · 8.1

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 Ikirun, 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 27°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ikirun 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 Ikirun 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 Ikirun peaks around September 19 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 19UV 12Dec 20UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ikirun

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
Feb74.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug85.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Ikirun 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 Ikirun is worst in February — around 140 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (July, 35 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyFeb 8140 µg/m³Jul 1935 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan139Unhealthy
Feb140Unhealthy
Mar77Unhealthy
Apr62Unhealthy
May44Poor
Jun39Poor
Jul35Moderate
Aug37Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct68Unhealthy
Nov93Unhealthy
Dec124Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ikirun 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. Ikirun banks about 5,866 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)
Jan518
Feb505
Mar564
Apr520
May505
Jun455
Jul443
Aug434
Sep437
Oct478
Nov496
Dec512

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.

Ikirun receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Oct 30 to May 14. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 125.9 kWhAug 163.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep4.0Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov5.3Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Ikirun?

Ikirun sits at 7.9°N, 4.7°E, 379 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Otan Ayegbaju, 14 km away.

Topography around Ikirun

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ikirun has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 201 m around an average of 390 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 325 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 618 m.

The land around Ikirun is covered by artificial surfaces (54%) and trees (32%) within 3 km, trees (76%) within 16 km, and trees (60%) within 80 km.

3 km
201 m
16 km
325 m
80 km
618 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Otan Ayegbaju 14 km · Oyan 19 km · Osogbo 20 km · Ilobu 22 km · Offa 27 km · Ila Orangun 29 km · Oke Mesi 29 km · Ijebu-Jesa 30 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 Ikirun (7.9128°, 4.6674°, elevation 379 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).