Climate and average weather in Moriki

In Moriki, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Moriki typically varies from 17°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 42°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Moriki for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
182 mm
Driest
Nov
0 mm
Rain / yr
450 mm
66 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
353 m
12.9°N
Clearest
Dec
26% cloud

Moriki is human settlement in Nigeria.

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

Moriki 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 December to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.5 months, from March 10 to May 25, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Moriki is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from July 15 to September 17, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Moriki is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in March.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3117
Feb3419
Mar3823
Apr4026
May3827
Jun3526
Jul3224
Aug3023
Sep3223
Oct3522
Nov3419
Dec3217

How hot and cold Moriki 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, Moriki feels like about 40°C (around May 11). About 321 days a year carry some heat stress, and 79 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311617
Feb34341919
Mar38382323
Apr40402626
May40382727
Jun39352626
Jul36322424
Aug34302323
Sep36322323
Oct36352222
Nov34341919
Dec31321717

Average hourly temperature in Moriki

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Moriki 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
Jan31° / 17°0011.36.0
Feb34° / 19°0011.63.8
Mar38° / 23°00.111.91.3
Apr40° / 26°40.912.30.2
May38° / 27°245.212.61.0
Jun35° / 26°478.812.72.5
Jul32° / 24°9415.512.73.5
Aug30° / 23°18219.812.43.7
Sep32° / 23°841212.13.8
Oct35° / 22°163.711.73.2
Nov34° / 19°0011.43.7
Dec32° / 17°0011.35.6

Chance of rain

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

Moriki gets about 450 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 4.6 months, from around May 21 to Oct 8, peaking in August at about 65% 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 182 mm over about 20 wet days; November is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 15 · 65%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr41
May175
Jun299
Jul5016
Aug6320
Sep4112
Oct124
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Moriki collects about 450 mm of rain across 66 wet days — roughly 38 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 182 mm, while November is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 80% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec00042447941828416
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr41
May245
Jun479
Jul9416
Aug18220
Sep8412
Oct164
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Moriki, 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 September 29 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around April 20. 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 June 26 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 28. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 29 · 85%Aug 13 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb8020
Mar6832
Apr6337
May6238
Jun6832
Jul3565
Aug1981
Sep4753
Oct6832
Nov7624
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 June 15, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.37:046:23
Feb11.67:016:36
Mar11.96:466:41
Apr12.36:266:43
May12.66:136:48
Jun12.76:126:57
Jul12.76:197:00
Aug12.46:256:51
Sep12.16:266:30
Oct11.76:286:10
Nov11.46:376:01
Dec11.36:536:08

Sunny days

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

Moriki averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.5 months, from around Oct 3 to Apr 17. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 93% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2723 daysAug 41 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr14Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul4Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around April 25 to October 22. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 23 to April 24, and November is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 95% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 28 · 100%Jun 15 · 0%comfortableoppressivehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9900000
Mar9432100
Apr5713161310
May1171942210
Jun00244520
Jul00018820
Aug0004960
Sep0003942
Oct258818411
Nov9142110
Dec10000000

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 Moriki is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Nov 16 to Apr 8. The windiest month is January, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 23 to Nov 15, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 5 · 12 km/hOct 11 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Moriki

In seasonPeak

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

Moriki sees seasonal dust haze (December–July), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Moriki

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Moriki 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 time of year to visit Moriki 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 3 · 6.6

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
Jan5.9good
Feb3.8fair
Mar1.4poor
Apr0.3poor
May1.0poor
Jun2.5poor
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.7fair
Dec5.6good

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 Moriki for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 9.0

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 Moriki, 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 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Moriki sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Moriki 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 Moriki peaks around August 16 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highAug 16UV 12Dec 16UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Moriki

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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar7.55
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov74.5
Dec40

Air quality in Moriki 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 Moriki is worst in February — around 111 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.8× the cleanest month (August, 23 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateUnhealthyFeb 15110 µg/m³Aug 1223 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan103Unhealthy
Feb111Unhealthy
Mar104Unhealthy
Apr80Unhealthy
May52Poor
Jun39Poor
Jul25Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct59Unhealthy
Nov80Unhealthy
Dec99Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Moriki 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. Moriki banks about 6,625 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)
Jan425
Feb469
Mar631
Apr683
May698
Jun611
Jul552
Aug513
Sep525
Oct573
Nov505
Dec440

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.

Moriki receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Jan 31 to Jun 27. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 37.2 kWhAug 104.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.5Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun6.5Intense
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Moriki?

Moriki sits at 12.9°N, 6.5°E, 353 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Kaura Namoda, 33 km away.

GusauMadarounfaGuidan RoumdjiMaradiTibiriKatsina

Topography around Moriki

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Moriki has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 43 m around an average of 351 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 162 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 378 m.

The land around Moriki is covered by cropland (81%) within 3 km, cropland (56%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and cropland (52%) and grassland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
43 m
16 km
162 m
80 km
378 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Kaura Namoda 33 km · Talata Mafara 57 km · Gusau 81 km · Madarounfa 87 km · Guidan Roumdji 90 km · Maradi 96 km · Tibiri 98 km · Katsina 121 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 Moriki (12.8741°, 6.4875°, elevation 353 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).