Climate and average weather in Kabba

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

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kabba typically varies from 21°C to 35°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 Kabba for warm-weather activities are from mid July to late August and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Sep
228 mm
Driest
Dec
3 mm
Rain / yr
1341 mm
175 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
436 m
7.8°N
Clearest
Dec
33% cloud

Kabba is place in Kogi State, Nigeria.

Density
151/km²
people per km²

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

Kabba 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 mid October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kabba 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 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
Feb3522
Mar3423
Apr3323
May3123
Jun3022
Jul2821
Aug2821
Sep2921
Oct3022
Nov3222
Dec3321

How hot and cold Kabba 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, Kabba feels like about 38°C (around March 31). About 278 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
Feb35352222
Mar38342323
Apr37332323
May35312323
Jun33302222
Jul31282121
Aug30282121
Sep32292121
Oct33302222
Nov35322222
Dec33332121

Average hourly temperature in Kabba

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 21°C.

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

Kabba 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°61.411.64.1
Feb35° / 22°14311.73.2
Mar34° / 23°448.511.92.8
Apr33° / 23°8613.612.23.1
May31° / 23°15020.312.43.2
Jun30° / 22°20624.412.43.3
Jul28° / 21°21126.712.43.6
Aug28° / 21°22624.812.34.0
Sep29° / 21°22825.7123.4
Oct30° / 22°14621.111.83.7
Nov32° / 22°214.411.64.5
Dec33° / 21°30.811.64.4

Chance of rain

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

Kabba gets about 1341 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 6.3 months, from around Apr 20 to Oct 27, peaking in September at about 89% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 23.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 228 mm over about 26 wet days; December is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 3 · 89%Dec 23 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb113
Mar289
Apr4514
May6520
Jun8124
Jul8527
Aug8125
Sep8526
Oct6621
Nov174
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kabba collects about 1341 mm of rain across 175 wet days — roughly 112 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 228 mm, while December is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6144486150206211226228146213
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan61
Feb143
Mar449
Apr8614
May15020
Jun20624
Jul21127
Aug22625
Sep22826
Oct14621
Nov214
Dec31

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kabba, 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 27 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around March 15. 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 9 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around October 26. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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 · 83%Aug 27 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb5842
Mar3763
Apr3070
May2080
Jun1387
Jul793
Aug496
Sep1189
Oct2674
Nov5743
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 14, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, 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)
Jan11.66:576:33
Feb11.76:586:43
Mar11.96:476:44
Apr12.26:316:41
May12.46:216:43
Jun12.46:226:50
Jul12.46:296:54
Aug12.36:326:48
Sep12.06:296:31
Oct11.86:266:15
Nov11.66:326:10
Dec11.66:456:18

Sunny days

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

Kabba averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Oct 31 to Mar 9. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2121 daysJul 150 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb11Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov12Mixed
Dec20Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 5 to November 25. 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 26 to March 4, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 52% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 5 · 62%Apr 6 · 0%humidcomfortableoppressivemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan421016266
Feb235133722
Mar4153061
Apr000991
May000397
Jun000991
Jul0003664
Aug0004852
Sep0002278
Oct0001189
Nov2384245
Dec291118366

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

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Feb 8 to Aug 25. The windiest month is April, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 26 to Feb 7, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 5 · 10 km/hOct 5 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr10calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Kabba

In seasonPeak

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

Kabba's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Kabba 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 Kabba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 15 · 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
Jan4.1fair
Feb3.2poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr3.1poor
May3.2poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.4fair
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 Kabba 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 · 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 Kabba, 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, Kabba sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kabba 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 Kabba peaks around September 18 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near February 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 highSep 18UV 12Feb 10UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb8Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kabba

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

Air quality in Kabba 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 Kabba 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

Kabba 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. Kabba banks about 6,035 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
Feb514
Mar584
Apr540
May524
Jun470
Jul458
Aug450
Sep452
Oct490
Nov506
Dec522

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.

Kabba receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 27 to May 15. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 146.0 kWhAug 153.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep4.4Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Kabba?

Kabba sits at 7.8°N, 6.1°E, 436 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Ogaminana, 30 km away.

Egbe

Topography around Kabba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kabba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 136 m around an average of 429 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 460 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 745 m.

The land around Kabba is covered by artificial surfaces (30%) and trees (29%) within 3 km, trees (53%) and shrubs (30%) within 16 km, and trees (60%) and shrubs (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
136 m
16 km
460 m
80 km
745 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ogaminana 30 km · Okene 35 km · Ode 40 km · Ikare 49 km · Isanlu-Itedoijowa 56 km · Ajaokuta 70 km · Lokoja 73 km · Egbe 76 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 Kabba (7.8272°, 6.075°, elevation 436 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).