Climate and average weather in Ilobu

In Ilobu, 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 Ilobu typically varies from 21°C to 35°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 Ilobu for warm-weather activities are from mid July to early September and late October to late December.

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
204 mm
Driest
Dec
6 mm
Rain / yr
1255 mm
193 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
339 m
7.8°N
Clearest
Dec
38% cloud

Ilobu is The headquarters of Irepodun Local Government, Osun State.

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

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

Temperatures in Ilobu 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 23°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°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)
Jan3422
Feb3523
Mar3424
Apr3224
May3123
Jun2922
Jul2822
Aug2822
Sep2922
Oct3022
Nov3222
Dec3321

How hot and cold Ilobu 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, Ilobu feels like about 38°C (around March 19). About 275 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34342122
Feb36352323
Mar38342424
Apr37322424
May35312323
Jun32292222
Jul31282222
Aug30282222
Sep32292222
Oct33302222
Nov35322222
Dec34332121

Average hourly temperature in Ilobu

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 August, near 22°C.

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

Ilobu 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
Jan34° / 22°112.311.63.8
Feb35° / 23°235.111.73.0
Mar34° / 24°6212.811.92.9
Apr32° / 24°8316.212.23.2
May31° / 23°14021.812.43.2
Jun29° / 22°18125.312.43.3
Jul28° / 22°18126.512.43.7
Aug28° / 22°17724.612.34.0
Sep29° / 22°20425.8123.4
Oct30° / 22°15424.111.83.4
Nov32° / 22°357.411.64.3
Dec33° / 21°61.511.64.4

Chance of rain

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

Ilobu gets about 1255 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 6.6 months, from around Apr 15 to Oct 31, peaking in July at about 87% 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 204 mm over about 26 wet days; December is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 10 · 87%Dec 25 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb195
Mar4113
Apr5416
May7022
Jun8425
Jul8527
Aug8025
Sep8626
Oct7524
Nov277
Dec62

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ilobu collects about 1255 mm of rain across 193 wet days — roughly 105 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 204 mm, while December is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11236283140181181177204154356
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan112
Feb235
Mar6213
Apr8316
May14022
Jun18125
Jul18127
Aug17725
Sep20426
Oct15424
Nov357
Dec62

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ilobu, 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 1 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around March 14. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 15 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around October 31. 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 · 82%Aug 18 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb5347
Mar3070
Apr2278
May1387
Jun991
Jul595
Aug397
Sep694
Oct1486
Nov5248
Dec7624

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 14, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan11.67:046:39
Feb11.77:046:49
Mar11.96:536:50
Apr12.26:376:47
May12.46:286:49
Jun12.46:296:56
Jul12.46:357:00
Aug12.36:386:54
Sep12.06:356:38
Oct11.86:326:22
Nov11.66:386:16
Dec11.66:526:25

Sunny days

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

Ilobu 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 4.0 months, from around Nov 6 to Mar 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2420 daysJun 250 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov8Mixed
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 Ilobu, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.9 months, from around March 5 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 4, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 38% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 44%Apr 5 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan3251026250
Feb164621530
Mar2126845
Apr00008911
May0000909
Jun0002971
Jul00011890
Aug00024760
Sep0005950
Oct0002980
Nov11314811
Dec2051129360

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 Ilobu is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 5 · 8 km/hOct 31 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Ilobu

In seasonPeak

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

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

Ilobu 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 Ilobu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 25 · 4.5

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.2poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.7fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.3fair
Dec4.4fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 7.8

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 Ilobu, 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 August (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ilobu sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ilobu 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 Ilobu peaks around March 24 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 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 highMar 24UV 12Dec 21UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ilobu

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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
Sep7.56
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Ilobu 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 Ilobu is worst in January — around 170 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 3.8× the cleanest month (July, 45 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 17168 µg/m³Jul 2345 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan170Very unhealthy
Feb158Very unhealthy
Mar86Unhealthy
Apr72Unhealthy
May58Unhealthy
Jun52Poor
Jul45Poor
Aug46Poor
Sep58Unhealthy
Oct78Unhealthy
Nov100Unhealthy
Dec157Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ilobu 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. Ilobu banks about 6,080 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)
Jan545
Feb525
Mar579
Apr533
May521
Jun472
Jul462
Aug454
Sep455
Oct493
Nov508
Dec534

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.

Ilobu receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 2 to May 8. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 95.7 kWhAug 133.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May4.6Bright
Jun4.0Bright
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug3.6Moderate
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct4.3Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Ilobu?

Ilobu sits at 7.8°N, 4.5°E, 339 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Osogbo, 11 km away.

Topography around Ilobu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ilobu has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 74 m around an average of 320 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 277 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 650 m.

The land around Ilobu is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) and trees (39%) within 3 km, trees (62%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) within 80 km.

3 km
74 m
16 km
277 m
80 km
650 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Osogbo 11 km · Ede 13 km · Inisa 17 km · Ejigbo 20 km · Ikirun 22 km · Otan Ayegbaju 35 km · Ilesa 37 km · Oyan 39 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 Ilobu (7.8388°, 4.4867°, elevation 339 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).