Climate and average weather in Kisi

In Kisi, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: late October to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kisi typically varies from 20°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 17°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 Kisi for warm-weather activities is from late October to late January.

Hottest
Mar
36°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
207 mm
Driest
Dec
1 mm
Rain / yr
1045 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
371 m
9.1°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Kisi 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 January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kisi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 36°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3320
Feb3522
Mar3624
Apr3524
May3323
Jun3123
Jul2922
Aug2822
Sep3022
Oct3222
Nov3421
Dec3320

How hot and cold Kisi 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, Kisi feels like about 39°C (around April 1). About 317 days a year carry some heat stress, and 7 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332020
Feb35352222
Mar38362424
Apr39352424
May37332323
Jun34312323
Jul32292222
Aug31282222
Sep33302222
Oct35322222
Nov34342121
Dec33332020

Average hourly temperature in Kisi

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Kisi 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° / 20°20.411.54.2
Feb35° / 22°41.211.73.0
Mar36° / 24°224.211.92.2
Apr35° / 24°641212.22.4
May33° / 23°12619.612.42.8
Jun31° / 23°14321.412.53.3
Jul29° / 22°17724.512.53.6
Aug28° / 22°20724.812.33.6
Sep30° / 22°19824.712.13.2
Oct32° / 22°9516.511.83.5
Nov34° / 21°61.611.63.9
Dec33° / 20°10.211.54.3

Chance of rain

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

Kisi gets about 1045 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.1 months, from around Apr 19 to Oct 21, peaking in September at about 84% 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 207 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 3 · 84%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb51
Mar154
Apr3912
May6320
Jun7121
Jul7925
Aug8025
Sep8225
Oct5217
Nov72
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kisi collects about 1045 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 87 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 207 mm, while December is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2422641261431772071989561
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20
Feb41
Mar224
Apr6412
May12620
Jun14321
Jul17725
Aug20725
Sep19825
Oct9517
Nov62
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kisi, 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 5.7 months, ending around April 10. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 11 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around October 20. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% 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 20 · 85%Aug 21 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb6634
Mar4753
Apr3862
May3070
Jun2278
Jul1189
Aug694
Sep1387
Oct3664
Nov7129
Dec8317

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 May 23, 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)
Jan11.57:086:40
Feb11.77:086:50
Mar11.96:566:52
Apr12.26:396:51
May12.46:286:53
Jun12.56:297:01
Jul12.56:367:05
Aug12.36:406:58
Sep12.16:376:40
Oct11.86:366:23
Nov11.66:436:17
Dec11.56:576:25

Sunny days

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

Kisi 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 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Oct 26 to Mar 16. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2422 daysJul 230 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar9Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov15Bright
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 Kisi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.1 months, from around March 11 to November 11. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 12 to March 10, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 72% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 29 · 89%Apr 23 · 0%comfortableoppressivehumidmuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan70911910
Feb4610142450
Mar1251147240
Apr11226700
May0003961
Jun0004960
Jul00013870
Aug00020800
Sep0006940
Oct00216810
Nov14112038180
Dec6111151310

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

The windier part of the year lasts 7.7 months, from around Dec 20 to Aug 9. The windiest month is April, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 10 to Dec 19, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 14 · 9 km/hSep 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Kisi

In seasonPeak

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

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

Kisi sees seasonal dust haze (January–May), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Kisi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Kisi 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 Kisi for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 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
Jan4.2fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.5fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.3fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 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 Kisi, 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 36°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 March, Kisi sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kisi 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 Kisi peaks around April 10 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 10UV 13Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kisi

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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
Feb7.55
Mar86
Apr86.5
May85.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Kisi 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 Kisi is worst in February — around 96 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.5× the cleanest month (July, 21 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1094 µg/m³Jul 2221 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan88Unhealthy
Feb96Unhealthy
Mar59Unhealthy
Apr48Poor
May30Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep27Moderate
Oct43Poor
Nov51Poor
Dec74Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kisi 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. Kisi banks about 6,260 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)
Jan513
Feb519
Mar618
Apr583
May559
Jun496
Jul479
Aug467
Sep471
Oct520
Nov523
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.

Kisi receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Oct 20 to May 24. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 236.3 kWhAug 153.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr6.0Intense
May5.5Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.0Moderate
Sep4.5Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Kisi?

Kisi sits at 9.1°N, 3.9°E, 371 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Igboho, 29 km away.

IlorinBode SaaduJebba

Topography around Kisi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kisi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 103 m around an average of 378 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 189 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 465 m.

The land around Kisi is covered by shrubs (29%), artificial surfaces (27%) and cropland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (50%) and shrubs (34%) within 16 km, and shrubs (48%) and cropland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
103 m
16 km
189 m
80 km
465 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Igboho 29 km · Igbeti 48 km · Kaiama 59 km · Saki 68 km · Okuta 73 km · Ilorin 100 km · Bode Saadu 103 km · Jebba 107 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 Kisi (9.083°, 3.852°, elevation 371 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).