Climate and average weather in Ondo

In Ondo, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: late November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ondo typically varies from 22°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 35°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
276 mm
Driest
Dec
21 mm
Rain / yr
1975 mm
266 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
263 m
7.1°N
Clearest
Dec
44% cloud

Ondo is city in Ondo State, Nigeria.

Founded
1510

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

Ondo 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 November to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ondo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3222
Feb3323
Mar3224
Apr3124
May3023
Jun2923
Jul2722
Aug2722
Sep2822
Oct2923
Nov3123
Dec3122

How hot and cold Ondo 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, Ondo feels like about 38°C (around March 5). About 251 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34322222
Feb37332323
Mar38322424
Apr37312424
May35302323
Jun32292323
Jul30272222
Aug30272222
Sep31282222
Oct33292223
Nov35312323
Dec34312222

Average hourly temperature in Ondo

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 February afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Ondo 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° / 22°246.911.64.3
Feb33° / 23°5012.111.83.3
Mar32° / 24°11624122.7
Apr31° / 24°18025.512.22.8
May30° / 23°24328.412.32.8
Jun29° / 23°2712912.43.0
Jul27° / 22°26829.512.43.4
Aug27° / 22°2332812.23.6
Sep28° / 22°27629.2123.2
Oct29° / 23°21828.911.83.0
Nov31° / 23°7617.711.73.7
Dec31° / 22°21711.64.8

Chance of rain

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

Ondo gets about 1975 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 8.0 months, from around Mar 10 to Nov 6, peaking in September at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 27.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 276 mm over about 29 wet days; December is the driest, with 21 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 11 · 98%Dec 27 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan227
Feb4412
Mar7624
Apr8526
May9228
Jun9629
Jul9530
Aug9128
Sep9729
Oct9229
Nov6018
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ondo collects about 1975 mm of rain across 266 wet days — roughly 165 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 276 mm, while December is the driest at just 21 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec24501161802432712682332762187621
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan247
Feb5012
Mar11624
Apr18026
May24328
Jun27129
Jul26830
Aug23328
Sep27629
Oct21829
Nov7618
Dec217

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ondo, 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 November 5 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around March 10. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 70% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 11 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around November 4. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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 22 · 77%Jul 22 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb4456
Mar2080
Apr1387
May892
Jun595
Jul298
Aug298
Sep397
Oct892
Nov3862
Dec7030

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.67:016:39
Feb11.87:026:48
Mar12.06:526:49
Apr12.26:366:46
May12.36:276:47
Jun12.46:296:53
Jul12.46:356:58
Aug12.26:386:52
Sep12.06:346:36
Oct11.86:306:21
Nov11.76:366:16
Dec11.66:496:25

Sunny days

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

Ondo averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 9 to Mar 3. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2417 daysMay 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec15Mixed

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 Ondo, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.3 months, from around February 26 to December 5. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 6 to February 25, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 18% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 22%Mar 11 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan117916508
Feb434105623
Mar00125146
Apr00004654
May00005842
Jun00008911
Jul0003971
Aug0005950
Sep00001000
Oct0000946
Nov00127720
Dec357146011

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 Ondo is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around Jun 24 to Sep 13. The windiest month is August, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 14 to Jan 21, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 5 · 8 km/hOct 30 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ondo

In seasonPeak

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

Ondo's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ondo sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Ondo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Ondo 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 Ondo for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 5.0

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr2.8poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.8fair

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 Ondo for hot-weather activities is from late November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 7.7

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 Ondo, 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.

Ondo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ondo sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ondo 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 Ondo peaks around March 22 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 14 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 highMar 22UV 13Jan 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb8Very high
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ondo

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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb74
Mar86
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Ondo 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 Ondo is worst in January — around 137 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (August, 35 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorPoorUnhealthyJan 20136 µg/m³Aug 1335 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan137Unhealthy
Feb131Unhealthy
Mar80Unhealthy
Apr61Unhealthy
May48Poor
Jun43Poor
Jul37Poor
Aug35Moderate
Sep42Poor
Oct54Poor
Nov66Unhealthy
Dec118Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ondo 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. Ondo banks about 5,940 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan522
Feb501
Mar552
Apr515
May512
Jun467
Jul459
Aug452
Sep453
Oct491
Nov499
Dec514

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.

Ondo receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Nov 4 to May 4. The brightest month is January, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the January peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightJan 85.4 kWhJul 273.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar4.9Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul3.5Moderate
Aug3.5Moderate
Sep3.7Moderate
Oct4.0Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Ondo?

Ondo sits at 7.1°N, 4.8°E, 263 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Idanre, 31 km away.

Topography around Ondo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ondo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 129 m around an average of 253 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 350 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 893 m.

The land around Ondo is covered by artificial surfaces (72%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, trees (90%) within 16 km, and trees (91%) within 80 km.

3 km
129 m
16 km
350 m
80 km
893 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Idanre 31 km · Akure 43 km · Igbara-Odo 52 km · Ile-Ife 53 km · Ilesa 60 km · Ikere-Ekiti 63 km · Efon-Alaaye 63 km · Ijebu-Jesa 66 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 Ondo (7.0932°, 4.8353°, elevation 263 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).