Weather in Lagos, month by month

Warmest month
March, 27.7
Coldest month
August, 24.7
Wettest month
September, 245 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Lagos is March at 27.7 degrees and the coldest is August at 24.7, a swing of 2.9 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in September, about 245 mm, and lightest in December at roughly 25 mm. Over a full year the cell above Lagos collects around 1,546 mm.

No month in Lagos averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in September at 90 percent, and the windiest month is August at 2.9 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 77 per cent of the year total falls in May, June, July, August, September and October.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 6.45, 3.39, covering Lagos on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Lagos, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January26.225 mm78%
February27.332 mm83%
March27.771 mm85%
April27.5125 mm86%
May27.1189 mm87%
June26.1243 mm88%
July25.1205 mm89%
August24.7114 mm89%
September25.3245 mm90%
October26.1202 mm88%
November26.871 mm86%
December26.725 mm80%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Lagos?

March, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Lagos?

August, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Lagos?

September carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Maiduguri, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))