Sofo-Birnin-Gwari, Nigeria Climate
The warmest month is March, with an average high of 36°C; the coldest is December, with an average low of 14°C. A normal year brings 1231 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 26
- Normal high
- 29°C
- Normal low
- 21°C
- Reanalysis high
- 32°Cin 2006
- Reanalysis low
- 19°Cin 2000
- Chance of a wet day
- 92%
- Daylight
- 12 h 04 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31°C | 14°C | 38°C (2010) | 7°C (1992) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| February | 34°C | 17°C | 40°C (2010) | 10°C (2001) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| March | 36°C | 20°C | 41°C (2005) | 12°C (1993) | 5 mm | 1.0 |
| April | 36°C | 22°C | 42°C (2000) | 15°C (1997) | 52 mm | 11.8 |
| May | 33°C | 23°C | 41°C (2005) | 16°C (2003) | 117 mm | 23.4 |
| June | 30°C | 22°C | 38°C (2005) | 19°C (2012) | 166 mm | 27.2 |
| July | 28°C | 21°C | 35°C (2004) | 18°C (2015) | 256 mm | 29.5 |
| August | 28°C | 21°C | 34°C (2005) | 18°C (1994) | 290 mm | 30.2 |
| September | 28°C | 21°C | 34°C (2004) | 19°C (2007) | 248 mm | 28.5 |
| October | 30°C | 20°C | 38°C (2004) | 14°C (1996) | 94 mm | 17.7 |
| November | 31°C | 16°C | 38°C (2004) | 11°C (1992) | 3 mm | 0.5 |
| December | 30°C | 14°C | 37°C (2013) | 8°C (2002) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 31°C | 19°C | 1231 mm | 170 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1231 mm in a normal year, most in August.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Sofo-Birnin-Gwari.
The muggiest month is July, when 100 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4°C | 35% | 97% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 3°C | 29% | 94% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 7°C | 33% | 74% | 9% | 10% | 6% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 15°C | 53% | 26% | 9% | 15% | 34% | 16% | 0% |
| May | 20°C | 72% | 3% | 2% | 6% | 35% | 53% | 0% |
| June | 21°C | 79% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 41% | 58% | 0% |
| July | 21°C | 84% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 53% | 47% | 0% |
| August | 21°C | 87% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 48% | 52% | 0% |
| September | 21°C | 85% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 41% | 59% | 0% |
| October | 19°C | 75% | 6% | 11% | 12% | 41% | 30% | 0% |
| November | 11°C | 53% | 66% | 20% | 10% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 6°C | 43% | 96% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is December, with the sky 21 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is August, at 77 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is January, averaging 18.7 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 15, with 12 h 47 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 11, with 11 h 29 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Sofo-Birnin-Gwari in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.