Climate and average weather in Ughelli

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

Best: late November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ughelli typically varies from 23°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ughelli for warm-weather activities are from mid July to late August and late November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Oct
349 mm
Driest
Dec
46 mm
Rain / yr
2700 mm
288 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
13 m
5.5°N
Clearest
Dec
50% cloud

Ughelli is city in Delta State, Nigeria.

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

Ughelli 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 Ughelli, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Ughelli 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 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3323
Feb3324
Mar3224
Apr3224
May3124
Jun2923
Jul2823
Aug2823
Sep2923
Oct3023
Nov3123
Dec3223

How hot and cold Ughelli 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, Ughelli feels like about 40°C (around March 6). About 291 days a year carry some heat stress, and 76 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37332323
Feb39332424
Mar40322424
Apr39322424
May38312424
Jun34292323
Jul31282323
Aug31282323
Sep32292323
Oct34302323
Nov37312323
Dec37322323

Average hourly temperature in Ughelli

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 23°C.

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

Ughelli 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
Jan33° / 23°471111.73.4
Feb33° / 24°8015.711.82.7
Mar32° / 24°18725.9122.3
Apr32° / 24°25827.212.12.4
May31° / 24°31529.112.22.5
Jun29° / 23°32829.212.32.8
Jul28° / 23°32829.112.33.2
Aug28° / 23°27227.712.23.4
Sep29° / 23°33129.4122.9
Oct30° / 23°34930.411.92.6
Nov31° / 23°16022.511.83.0
Dec32° / 23°461111.73.8

Chance of rain

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

Ughelli gets about 2700 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 8.2 months, from around Mar 7 to Nov 12, peaking in September at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 349 mm over about 30 wet days; December is the driest, with 46 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 30 · 99%Dec 29 · 24%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb5716
Mar8326
Apr9027
May9429
Jun9729
Jul9429
Aug9028
Sep9829
Oct9730
Nov7523
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ughelli collects about 2700 mm of rain across 288 wet days — roughly 225 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 349 mm, while December is the driest at just 46 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec478018725831532832827233134916046
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan4711
Feb8016
Mar18726
Apr25827
May31529
Jun32829
Jul32829
Aug27228
Sep33129
Oct34930
Nov16023
Dec4611

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ughelli, 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 9 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around March 8. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 62% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 9 and lasts for 8.0 months, ending around November 8. The cloudiest month is September, 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 23 · 69%Sep 11 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb3664
Mar1684
Apr1090
May793
Jun496
Jul397
Aug496
Sep298
Oct595
Nov2971
Dec6238

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. Close to the equator, Ughelli barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:546:37
Feb11.86:566:45
Mar12.06:476:45
Apr12.16:336:40
May12.26:256:40
Jun12.36:276:46
Jul12.36:336:50
Aug12.26:356:46
Sep12.06:296:31
Oct11.96:256:17
Nov11.86:296:14
Dec11.76:426:23

Sunny days

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

Ughelli 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 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Nov 16 to Mar 1. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2315 daysMay 310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb5Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec12Mixed

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.

Ughelli is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is February, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 97% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan247155518
Feb01294346
Mar00012277
Apr00001387
May00002377
Jun00006931
Jul0001945
Aug0001991
Sep0000946
Oct00007525
Nov00006337
Dec013106521

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.

Wind in Ughelli is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeAug 10 · 7 km/hOct 27 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ughelli

In seasonPeak

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

Ughelli sees seasonal dust haze (December–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Ughelli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Ughelli 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 times of year to visit Ughelli for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to late August and again from late November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 4.0

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb2.7poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.6poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec3.8fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 6.8

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 Ughelli, 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.

Ughelli 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, Ughelli sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ughelli 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 Ughelli peaks around March 24 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 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 highMar 24UV 12Jan 10UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ughelli

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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74

Air quality in Ughelli 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 Ughelli is worst in January — around 118 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (August, 30 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 16116 µg/m³Aug 1630 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan118Unhealthy
Feb101Unhealthy
Mar63Unhealthy
Apr57Unhealthy
May49Poor
Jun43Poor
Jul35Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep35Poor
Oct47Poor
Nov57Unhealthy
Dec102Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ughelli 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. Ughelli banks about 6,171 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)
Jan553
Feb517
Mar565
Apr532
May533
Jun486
Jul479
Aug477
Sep471
Oct504
Nov513
Dec542

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.

Ughelli receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 5.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Nov 6 to May 11. The brightest month is January, averaging about 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.4 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the January peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightJan 85.2 kWhJul 193.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar4.8Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.6Moderate
Jul3.4Moderate
Aug3.5Moderate
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Ughelli?

Ughelli sits at 5.5°N, 6.0°E, 13 m above sea level, in Nigeria. The nearest listed city is Warri, 28 km away.

AgborOgutaOgwashi-Uku

Topography around Ughelli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ughelli has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m around an average of 10 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 28 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 200 m.

The land around Ughelli is covered by artificial surfaces (52%), grassland (25%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and grassland (35%) within 16 km, and trees (64%) within 80 km.

3 km
21 m
16 km
28 m
80 km
200 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Warri 28 km · Kwale 53 km · Burutu 57 km · Sapele 58 km · Yenagoa 69 km · Agbor 88 km · Oguta 92 km · Ogwashi-Uku 96 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 Ughelli (5.4896°, 6.0041°, elevation 13 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).