Climate and average weather in Pindiga

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

Best: early December to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pindiga 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 Pindiga for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and early December to late December.

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

Pindiga is human settlement in Nigeria.

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

Pindiga 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 December to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.6 months, from February 24 to May 12, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Pindiga is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 2.7 months, from July 10 to September 29, with daily high temperatures below 30°C. The coldest month of the year in Pindiga is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3217
Feb3520
Mar3723
Apr3825
May3525
Jun3324
Jul3022
Aug2822
Sep2922
Oct3222
Nov3420
Dec3218

How hot and cold Pindiga 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, Pindiga feels like about 39°C (around May 11). About 283 days a year carry some heat stress, 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
Mar37372323
Apr38382525
May38352525
Jun36332424
Jul32302222
Aug31282222
Sep33292222
Oct34322222
Nov34342020
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Pindiga

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

Pindiga 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°00.111.73.4
Mar37° / 23°20.311.91.6
Apr38° / 25°143.312.21.4
May35° / 25°469.212.52.4
Jun33° / 24°6010.912.63.6
Jul30° / 22°12217.712.54.0
Aug28° / 22°21022.912.33.9
Sep29° / 22°10816.512.14.3
Oct32° / 22°448.111.84.2
Nov34° / 20°10.211.54.0
Dec32° / 18°0011.45.2

Chance of rain

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

Pindiga gets about 605 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 4 to Oct 16, peaking in August at about 74% 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 210 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 18 · 74%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr123
May299
Jun3711
Jul5718
Aug7323
Sep5517
Oct268
Nov20
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pindiga collects about 605 mm of rain across 89 wet days — roughly 50 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 210 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 73% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec021446601222101084410
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr143
May469
Jun6011
Jul12218
Aug21023
Sep10817
Oct448
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pindiga, 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 17 and lasts for 5.8 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 17 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around October 16. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 · 84%Aug 13 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7327
Feb7129
Mar5842
Apr4852
May4654
Jun4654
Jul2080
Aug1090
Sep2674
Oct4951
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 4, 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)
Jan11.56:416:10
Feb11.76:416:21
Mar11.96:286:24
Apr12.26:106:23
May12.55:596:26
Jun12.65:596:34
Jul12.56:066:38
Aug12.36:106:30
Sep12.16:096:12
Oct11.86:085:54
Nov11.56:155:47
Dec11.46:305:55

Sunny days

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

Pindiga 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 19 to Apr 10. 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 2121 daysAug 60 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov15Bright
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 Pindiga, 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 30. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 31 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 28 · 0%oppressivedryhumidcomfortablemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb972110
Mar798760
Apr306163910
May2165041
Jun0005149
Jul0003862
Aug0001783
Sep000793
Oct8451963
Nov746875
Dec991000

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

The windier part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around Nov 30 to Mar 3. The windiest month is January, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 8 to Nov 29, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 2 · 12 km/hOct 23 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Pindiga

In seasonPeak

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

Pindiga's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

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

Best time to visit Pindiga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Pindiga 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 Pindiga for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest 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
Mar1.6poor
Apr1.4poor
May2.4poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct4.2fair
Nov4.0fair
Dec5.2fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 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 Pindiga, 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 28°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Pindiga sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pindiga 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 Pindiga peaks around March 17 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 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 highExtremeExtremeVery highMar 17UV 12Dec 17UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Pindiga

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
Apr85.5
May7.55
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Pindiga 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 Pindiga 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

Pindiga 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. Pindiga banks about 6,278 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)
Jan448
Feb479
Mar625
Apr641
May626
Jun541
Jul497
Aug466
Sep467
Oct525
Nov503
Dec460

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.

Pindiga 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 22 to Jun 5. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 277.1 kWhAug 144.6 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 Pindiga?

Pindiga sits at 10.0°N, 11.0°E, 490 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Kumo, 29 km away.

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Topography around Pindiga

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pindiga has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 161 m around an average of 491 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 339 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 954 m.

The land around Pindiga is covered by cropland (62%) within 3 km, cropland (77%) within 16 km, and cropland (61%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
161 m
16 km
339 m
80 km
954 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Kumo 29 km · Garko 31 km · Biliri 33 km · Gombe 41 km · Deba 54 km · Dukku 95 km · Bauchi 127 km · Darazo 127 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 Pindiga (9.9843°, 10.9523°, elevation 490 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).