Climate and average weather in Patigi

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

Best: mid July to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Patigi typically varies from 21°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 40°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 Patigi for warm-weather activities is from mid July to late January.

Hottest
Mar
38°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
234 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
1011 mm
131 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
123 m
8.7°N
Clearest
Dec
28% cloud

Patigi is LGA and settlement in Kwara State, Nigeria.

Founded
~16 CE

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

Patigi 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 July to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from February 1 to April 30, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Patigi is March, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from June 27 to October 9, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Patigi is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3521
Feb3724
Mar3826
Apr3726
May3526
Jun3224
Jul3024
Aug3023
Sep3123
Oct3224
Nov3523
Dec3521

How hot and cold Patigi 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, Patigi feels like about 42°C (around April 9). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 85 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352121
Feb37372424
Mar41382626
Apr42372626
May40352626
Jun37322424
Jul34302424
Aug33302323
Sep34312323
Oct36322424
Nov36352323
Dec35352121

Average hourly temperature in Patigi

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Patigi 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
Jan35° / 21°10.211.53.2
Feb37° / 24°20.311.71.9
Mar38° / 26°8211.91.0
Apr37° / 26°356.712.21.4
May35° / 26°9215.212.42.2
Jun32° / 24°15020.812.52.8
Jul30° / 24°19424.512.53.1
Aug30° / 23°23424.112.33.3
Sep31° / 23°21023.112.13.1
Oct32° / 24°8413.511.83.6
Nov35° / 23°20.411.63.4
Dec35° / 21°00.111.53.4

Chance of rain

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

Patigi gets about 1011 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 5.6 months, from around May 1 to Oct 18, peaking in August at about 82% 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 234 mm over about 24 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 29 · 82%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar72
Apr237
May4915
Jun6921
Jul7825
Aug7924
Sep7723
Oct4214
Nov30
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Patigi collects about 1011 mm of rain across 131 wet days — roughly 84 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 234 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12835921501942342108420
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb20
Mar82
Apr357
May9215
Jun15021
Jul19425
Aug23424
Sep21023
Oct8414
Nov20
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Patigi, 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 22 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around April 12. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 13 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around October 21. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 · 86%Aug 14 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7525
Feb6832
Mar5050
Apr4258
May3367
Jun2575
Jul1882
Aug1288
Sep2179
Oct4060
Nov6931
Dec8218

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 27, 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)
Jan11.57:006:33
Feb11.77:006:43
Mar11.96:486:45
Apr12.26:316:43
May12.46:216:45
Jun12.56:226:52
Jul12.56:296:56
Aug12.36:326:50
Sep12.16:306:33
Oct11.86:286:16
Nov11.66:346:10
Dec11.56:486:18

Sunny days

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

Patigi averages about 9 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 4.8 months, from around Oct 26 to Mar 19. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2222 daysJul 310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar10Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
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 Patigi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.3 months, from around March 11 to November 17. 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 18 to March 10, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 69% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 30 · 88%Apr 27 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan668131120
Feb447133070
Mar114851260
Apr01227691
May0003916
Jun0000964
Jul0001990
Aug0001990
Sep0000982
Oct0013888
Nov891332371
Dec5514121720

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 Patigi is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Jan 2 to Jun 18. The windiest month is April, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 19 to Jan 1, with September the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 10 · 8 km/hSep 22 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Patigi

In seasonPeak

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

Patigi's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Patigi sees seasonal dust haze (December–May), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Patigi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late July, Patigi 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 Patigi for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid July to late January, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 25 · 3.8

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
Jan3.2poor
Feb1.9poor
Mar1.1poor
Apr1.4poor
May2.2poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.4poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 7.4

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 Patigi, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

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

UV index (midday) in Patigi 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 Patigi peaks around September 15 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 highSep 15UV 12Dec 20UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Patigi

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 September 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
Feb74.5
Mar85.5
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug85.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53

Air quality in Patigi 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 Patigi is worst in February — around 111 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (July, 27 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 9110 µg/m³Jul 1827 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan108Unhealthy
Feb111Unhealthy
Mar74Unhealthy
Apr56Unhealthy
May35Moderate
Jun30Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep32Moderate
Oct48Poor
Nov58Unhealthy
Dec84Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Patigi 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. Patigi banks about 6,870 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)
Jan562
Feb571
Mar687
Apr656
May625
Jun547
Jul528
Aug514
Sep507
Oct551
Nov563
Dec559

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.

Patigi receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Oct 23 to May 21. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 276.5 kWhAug 154.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.4Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Patigi?

Patigi sits at 8.7°N, 5.8°E, 123 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Lafiagi, 40 km away.

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Topography around Patigi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Patigi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 96 m around an average of 95 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 180 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 621 m.

The land around Patigi is covered by shrubs (29%) and cropland (27%) within 3 km, cropland (30%), shrubs (24%) and trees (22%) within 16 km, and cropland (31%), shrubs (29%) and trees (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
96 m
16 km
180 m
80 km
621 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Lafiagi 40 km · Bida 48 km · Isanlu-Itedoijowa 51 km · Egbe 63 km · Baro 74 km · Lapai 96 km · Mokwa 100 km · Ode 104 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 Patigi (8.7285°, 5.7556°, elevation 123 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).