Kagoro weather in May

In May, Kagoro sees average daytime highs of 29°C and overnight lows near 21°C, with 189 mm of rain across 24.8 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 7th-warmest and 5th-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 30°C in the first days to 28°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 6% of the time in May, and the air most often feels muggy.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Kagoro's 8th-clearest and 7th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Kagoro's year-round climate.

Daytime high
29°
7th warmest
Overnight low
21°
10th coldest
Rainfall
189 mm
24.8 wet days
Daylight
12 h 24 min
6:10 AM – 6:36 PM
Cloud cover
79%
8th clearest
Wind
5 km/h
7th windiest
Solar energy
4.91 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.5
out of 10

Kagoro is town in Nigeria.

Founded
1905

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

Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 30°C in the first days to 28°C by the end.

A typical May day in Kagoro reaches about 29°C in the afternoon and slips back to 21°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 27°C and 31°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 4°C cooler than April and about 2°C warmer than June.

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How May really feels in Kagoro

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 6 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
6
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in May is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Kagoro weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 7th-warmest and 5th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan32° / 17°10.211.55.5
Feb33° / 20°20.611.74.2
Mar35° / 22°132.611.93.2
Apr33° / 22°7012.212.23.4
May29° / 21°18924.812.43.5
Jun27° / 20°26028.112.53.6
Jul25° / 20°32430.112.53.5
Aug25° / 20°39630.112.33.5
Sep27° / 19°32329.212.13.5
Oct29° / 19°16720.411.84.2
Nov31° / 18°61.411.65.4
Dec31° / 17°1011.45.7

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 6% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 10% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 84%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Kagoro gets around 189 mm of rain over 24.8 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 79% and peaks near 91% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels muggy — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the muggy band about 57% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 97% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
12265832
22265733
31155835
41155736
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Wind in May

Winds average 5 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 5 km/h on the calmest days to 6 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 12 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 6:14 AM to 6:08 AM, and sunset from 6:34 PM to 6:39 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.36:146:34
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512.46:126:34
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Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 4.91 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.56 kWh/m² to a high of 6.7 kWh/m² in March across the year — May's 4.91 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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314.4Bright
Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Kagoro

In seasonPeak

In May, Kagoro sits inside its monsoon and dust season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

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

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

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

Is May a good time to visit Kagoro?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

3.5
Sightseeing
7th-best month of the year
4.5
Beach & pool
8th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Kagoro.

What to pack for Kagoro in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Kagoro sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 25 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Kagoro in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 10 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kagoro peaks around September 12 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 12UV 12Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Air quality in Kagoro in May

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where May falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Kagoro 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
Location & terrain

Where is Kagoro?

Kagoro sits at 9.6°N, 8.4°E, 816 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Kafanchan, 11 km away.

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Topography around Kagoro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kagoro has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 486 m around an average of 877 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 843 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,529 m.

The land around Kagoro is covered by cropland (43%), grassland (22%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, cropland (53%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and cropland (39%), shrubs (27%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
486 m
16 km
843 m
80 km
1,529 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
May weather nearby: Kafanchan 11 km · Bukuru 56 km · Kachia 56 km · Jos 66 km · Akwanga 78 km · Wamba 78 km · Lere 89 km · Keffi 102 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 Kagoro (9.6078°, 8.3904°, elevation 816 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).