Climate and average weather in Kumo

In Kumo, the summers are sweltering, dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kumo typically varies from 17°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 40°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kumo for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and mid December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
172 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
444 mm
71 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
427 m
10.0°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Kumo 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 early January to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kumo, 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 February 26 to May 17, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Kumo is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.4 months, from July 14 to September 23, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Kumo is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3217
Feb3520
Mar3824
Apr3826
May3626
Jun3324
Jul3123
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3323
Nov3421
Dec3218

How hot and cold Kumo 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, Kumo feels like about 39°C (around May 7). About 303 days a year carry some heat stress, and 31 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321717
Feb35352020
Mar38382424
Apr39382626
May39362626
Jun36332424
Jul33312323
Aug32292222
Sep33302222
Oct35332323
Nov34342121
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Kumo

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 April afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Kumo 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° / 17°0011.55.3
Feb35° / 20°0011.73.4
Mar38° / 24°10.311.91.4
Apr38° / 26°92.112.21.2
May36° / 26°316.912.52.1
Jun33° / 24°427.712.63.4
Jul31° / 23°9214.612.54.0
Aug29° / 22°17220.812.34.0
Sep30° / 22°7313.512.14.4
Oct33° / 23°245.311.83.8
Nov34° / 21°0011.53.6
Dec32° / 18°0011.45.1

Chance of rain

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

Kumo gets about 444 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.0 months, from around May 13 to Oct 12, peaking in August at about 67% 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 172 mm over about 21 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 15 · 67%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr72
May217
Jun278
Jul4815
Aug6521
Sep4514
Oct175
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kumo collects about 444 mm of rain across 71 wet days — roughly 37 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 172 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec01931429217273240
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr92
May317
Jun428
Jul9215
Aug17221
Sep7314
Oct245
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kumo, 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 12 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 11. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 16 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around October 11. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 23 · 83%Aug 13 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7327
Feb7030
Mar5941
Apr5050
May4852
Jun4852
Jul2476
Aug1189
Sep2971
Oct5347
Nov6931
Dec8020

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 3, 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)
Jan11.56:406:09
Feb11.76:406:20
Mar11.96:276:23
Apr12.26:096:22
May12.55:586:25
Jun12.65:586:33
Jul12.56:056:37
Aug12.36:096:29
Sep12.16:086:11
Oct11.86:075:53
Nov11.56:145:46
Dec11.46:295:54

Sunny days

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

Kumo averages about 10 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 5.7 months, from around Oct 16 to Apr 8. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2221 daysAug 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun8Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
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 Kumo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around April 12 to October 28. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 96% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 29 to April 11, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 2 · 100%May 31 · 0%oppressivecomfortabledryhumidmuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb972100
Mar818750
Apr32617378
May2275732
Jun0006535
Jul0005149
Aug0002278
Sep0001387
Oct11482849
Nov787762
Dec990000

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 Kumo is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Apr 5 to Aug 13. The windiest month is June, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 14 to Dec 8, with October the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 14 · 13 km/hOct 26 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr12calm
May12light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Kumo

In seasonPeak

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

Kumo sees seasonal dust haze (December–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Kumo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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 Kumo for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 5.8

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar1.5poor
Apr1.2poor
May2.1poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul4.0fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.6fair
Dec5.1fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 31 · 8.6

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 Kumo, 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 April (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Kumo sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kumo 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 Kumo peaks around March 15 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeVery highMar 15UV 12Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kumo

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 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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May7.55
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Kumo 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 Kumo is worst in February — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.9× the cleanest month (July, 20 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1798 µg/m³Jul 1920 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan89Unhealthy
Feb98Unhealthy
Mar94Unhealthy
Apr64Unhealthy
May32Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct43Poor
Nov54Poor
Dec79Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kumo 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. Kumo banks about 6,485 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan454
Feb488
Mar644
Apr661
May647
Jun563
Jul516
Aug480
Sep484
Oct553
Nov525
Dec469

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.

Kumo receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around Oct 21 to Jun 5. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 277.1 kWhAug 154.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr6.8Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Kumo?

Kumo sits at 10.0°N, 11.2°E, 427 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Garko, 15 km away.

DukkuNumanNafada

Topography around Kumo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kumo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 162 m around an average of 428 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 358 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 941 m.

The land around Kumo is covered by cropland (66%) within 3 km, cropland (79%) within 16 km, and cropland (62%) within 80 km.

3 km
162 m
16 km
358 m
80 km
941 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Garko 15 km · Biliri 20 km · Deba 27 km · Gombe 27 km · Pindiga 29 km · Dukku 99 km · Numan 111 km · Nafada 117 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 Kumo (10.0481°, 11.2105°, elevation 427 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).