Climate and average weather in Kachia

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

Best: late October to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kachia typically varies from 18°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 38°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kachia for warm-weather activities is from late October to early February.

Hottest
Mar
35°
Coldest
Aug
20°
Wettest
Aug
354 mm
Driest
Dec
1 mm
Rain / yr
1522 mm
167 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
718 m
9.9°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Kachia 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 early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from January 27 to April 19, with daily high temperatures above 33°C. The hottest month of the year in Kachia is March, with an average high of 35°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from June 21 to September 16, with daily high temperatures below 28°C. The coldest month of the year in Kachia is August, with an average low of 20°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3218
Feb3421
Mar3523
Apr3323
May3022
Jun2821
Jul2620
Aug2620
Sep2820
Oct3020
Nov3219
Dec3218

How hot and cold Kachia 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, Kachia feels like about 35°C (around March 16). About 150 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321818
Feb34342121
Mar35352323
Apr34332323
May33302222
Jun30282121
Jul26262020
Aug26262020
Sep29282020
Oct31302020
Nov32321919
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Kachia

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 March afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 20°C.

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

Kachia 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
Jan32° / 18°10.211.55.1
Feb34° / 21°30.611.73.9
Mar35° / 23°152.611.92.9
Apr33° / 23°691112.23.1
May30° / 22°16622.412.43.4
Jun28° / 21°20425.512.63.7
Jul26° / 20°28029.112.53.5
Aug26° / 20°35429.712.33.5
Sep28° / 20°28928.312.13.4
Oct30° / 20°13817.111.84.3
Nov32° / 19°30.811.55.1
Dec32° / 18°10.111.45.4

Chance of rain

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

Kachia gets about 1522 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 5.9 months, from around Apr 22 to Oct 19, peaking in August at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 354 mm over about 30 wet days; December is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 15 · 96%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb21
Mar93
Apr3711
May7122
Jun8526
Jul9429
Aug9630
Sep9428
Oct5417
Nov51
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kachia collects about 1522 mm of rain across 167 wet days — roughly 127 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 354 mm, while December is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 61% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13156916620428035428913831
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb31
Mar153
Apr6911
May16622
Jun20426
Jul28029
Aug35430
Sep28928
Oct13817
Nov31
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kachia, 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 21 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 15. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 16 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around October 20. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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 4 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb6931
Mar5446
Apr3763
May2080
Jun991
Jul397
Aug199
Sep892
Oct3169
Nov6535
Dec7921

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:536:22
Feb11.76:536:33
Mar11.96:406:36
Apr12.26:226:35
May12.46:116:38
Jun12.66:116:46
Jul12.56:186:50
Aug12.36:226:42
Sep12.16:216:24
Oct11.86:206:07
Nov11.56:276:00
Dec11.46:426:07

Sunny days

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

Kachia averages about 8 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 5.5 months, from around Oct 25 to Apr 10. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2121 daysJul 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar11Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov15Mixed
Dec21Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around April 9 to October 31. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 1 to April 8, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 24 · 100%May 17 · 0%oppressivecomfortabledrymuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan963100
Feb876520
Mar591415121
Apr1610134516
May0035046
Jun0007426
Jul000937
Aug000973
Sep000955
Oct55106910
Nov591513121
Dec953100

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 Kachia is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Nov 11 to Apr 19. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 20 to Nov 10, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 1 · 11 km/hSep 27 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb10calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Kachia

In seasonPeak

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

Kachia's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Kachia sees seasonal dust haze (February–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Kachia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Kachia 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 time of year to visit Kachia for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 5.6

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
Jan5.1fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.1poor
May3.4poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.5fair
Sep3.4poor
Oct4.3fair
Nov5.1fair
Dec5.4fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 8.5

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 Kachia, 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 March (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Kachia sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kachia 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 Kachia peaks around August 24 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highAug 24UV 12Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kachia

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 August 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Kachia 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 Kachia is worst in February — around 102 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (July, 25 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 15101 µg/m³Jul 2325 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan93Unhealthy
Feb102Unhealthy
Mar91Unhealthy
Apr68Unhealthy
May42Poor
Jun33Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct57Unhealthy
Nov64Unhealthy
Dec82Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kachia 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. Kachia banks about 5,615 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)
Jan470
Feb481
Mar585
Apr546
May500
Jun430
Jul408
Aug400
Sep409
Oct456
Nov464
Dec465

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.

Kachia receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Oct 19 to May 11. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 44% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 226.7 kWhAug 73.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May5.2Bright
Jun4.3Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep4.5Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov6.2Intense
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Kachia?

Kachia sits at 9.9°N, 8.0°E, 718 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Kafanchan, 49 km away.

LereKadunaBukuruJosAbujaDutsen Wai

Topography around Kachia

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kachia has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 88 m around an average of 717 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 254 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 977 m.

The land around Kachia is covered by cropland (60%) within 3 km, shrubs (44%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (37%) and shrubs (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
88 m
16 km
254 m
80 km
977 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Kafanchan 49 km · Kagoro 56 km · Lere 89 km · Kaduna 92 km · Bukuru 100 km · Jos 103 km · Abuja 104 km · Dutsen Wai 112 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 Kachia (9.8734°, 7.9541°, elevation 718 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).