Climate and average weather in Numan

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

Best: early July to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Numan typically varies from 19°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 42°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
40°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Aug
136 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
402 mm
70 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
161 m
9.5°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Numan 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 July to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.4 months, from February 23 to May 6, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Numan is March, with an average high of 40°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 2.3 months, from July 15 to September 21, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Numan is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3419
Feb3721
Mar4025
Apr3928
May3727
Jun3526
Jul3225
Aug3124
Sep3224
Oct3525
Nov3722
Dec3519

How hot and cold Numan 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, Numan feels like about 42°C (around May 1). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 95 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)
Jan34341919
Feb37372121
Mar39402525
Apr41392828
May41372727
Jun38352626
Jul36322525
Aug34312424
Sep36322424
Oct38352425
Nov37372222
Dec35351919

Average hourly temperature in Numan

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Numan 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
Jan34° / 19°0011.53.6
Feb37° / 21°0011.72.0
Mar40° / 25°10.311.90.3
Apr39° / 28°132.912.20.4
May37° / 27°408.612.41.6
Jun35° / 26°407.812.52.8
Jul32° / 25°7112.512.53.5
Aug31° / 24°13617.512.33.7
Sep32° / 24°7213.612.13.7
Oct35° / 25°286.311.82.8
Nov37° / 22°10.311.62.2
Dec35° / 19°0011.53.5

Chance of rain

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

Numan gets about 402 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 5.5 months, from around May 1 to Oct 15, peaking in August at about 56% 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 136 mm over about 18 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 16 · 56%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr103
May279
Jun278
Jul4113
Aug5518
Sep4514
Oct206
Nov20
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Numan collects about 402 mm of rain across 70 wet days — roughly 34 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 136 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 69% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11340407113672281
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr133
May409
Jun408
Jul7113
Aug13618
Sep7214
Oct286
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Numan, 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 16 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 9. 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 15 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around October 15. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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 19 · 82%Aug 13 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb6931
Mar5941
Apr4753
May4555
Jun4852
Jul2674
Aug1486
Sep2872
Oct5050
Nov6832
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 18, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, 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)
Jan11.56:366:06
Feb11.76:366:17
Mar11.96:236:20
Apr12.26:066:18
May12.45:556:21
Jun12.55:566:29
Jul12.56:026:33
Aug12.36:076:25
Sep12.16:056:08
Oct11.86:035:51
Nov11.66:105:44
Dec11.56:255:52

Sunny days

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

Numan averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around Oct 21 to Apr 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2221 daysAug 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun8Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov15Mixed
Dec20Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around April 10 to November 2. 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 3 to April 9, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 100%May 23 · 0%oppressivehumiddrymuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9910000
Feb9333100
Mar69911910
Apr2271440180
May11335600
Jun00039601
Jul00033670
Aug00010900
Sep0004951
Oct44620650
Nov5913121150
Dec9711000

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 Numan is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Mar 22 to Aug 30. The windiest month is July, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 31 to Mar 21, with November the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 7 · 11 km/hNov 28 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar9calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Numan

In seasonPeak

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

Numan sees seasonal dust haze (January–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Numan

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Numan 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 times of year to visit Numan for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to early October and again from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 3 · 4.1

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb2.0poor
Mar0.4poor
Apr0.4poor
May1.6poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct2.8poor
Nov2.2poor
Dec3.5poor

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 Numan for hot-weather activities is from early December to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 7.9

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 Numan, 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 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Numan sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Numan 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 Numan peaks around August 24 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highExtremeVery highAug 24UV 12Dec 22UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Numan

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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr7.55.5
May7.55
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Numan 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 Numan is worst in February — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.8× the cleanest month (July, 21 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1797 µg/m³Jul 1921 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan90Unhealthy
Feb98Unhealthy
Mar94Unhealthy
Apr65Unhealthy
May34Moderate
Jun27Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep29Moderate
Oct45Poor
Nov54Poor
Dec78Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Numan 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. Numan banks about 7,062 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)
Jan510
Feb531
Mar690
Apr706
May684
Jun604
Jul568
Aug529
Sep531
Oct607
Nov577
Dec524

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.

Numan receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Oct 23 to May 31. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 257.0 kWhAug 154.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.2Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Numan?

Numan sits at 9.5°N, 12.0°E, 161 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Jimeta, 51 km away.

JalingoBiliriDebaGombiKumoGanye

Topography around Numan

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Numan has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 47 m around an average of 151 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 172 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,140 m.

The land around Numan is covered by cropland (33%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, cropland (45%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and cropland (53%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
47 m
16 km
172 m
80 km
1,140 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Jimeta 51 km · Yola 57 km · Jalingo 97 km · Biliri 99 km · Deba 109 km · Gombi 110 km · Kumo 111 km · Ganye 114 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 Numan (9.4637°, 12.0306°, elevation 161 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).