Zaria, Nigeria Climate
The warmest month is April, with an average high of 35°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 13°C. A normal year brings 1244 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 24
- Normal high
- 29°C
- Normal low
- 20°C
- Reanalysis high
- 32°Cin 2009
- Reanalysis low
- 19°Cin 1994
- Chance of a wet day
- 92%
- Daylight
- 12 h 06 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 | 29°C | 13°C | 38°C (2010) | 6°C (1992) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| February | 33°C | 16°C | 39°C (2010) | 9°C (2001) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| March | 35°C | 19°C | 41°C (2007) | 11°C (1993) | 9 mm | 0.0 |
| April | 35°C | 22°C | 41°C (2010) | 14°C (1997) | 54 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 33°C | 22°C | 41°C (2000) | 16°C (2003) | 121 mm | 21.7 |
| June | 30°C | 22°C | 39°C (2006) | 19°C (2012) | 171 mm | 27.0 |
| July | 28°C | 21°C | 36°C (2006) | 18°C (2000) | 273 mm | 31.0 |
| August | 27°C | 20°C | 34°C (2006) | 18°C (1996) | 301 mm | 31.0 |
| September | 28°C | 20°C | 34°C (2004) | 18°C (2007) | 231 mm | 27.0 |
| October | 30°C | 19°C | 37°C (2004) | 13°C (2001) | 81 mm | 15.5 |
| November | 30°C | 15°C | 37°C (2004) | 10°C (1992) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| December | 29°C | 13°C | 36°C (2013) | 7°C (2002) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 31°C | 18°C | 1244 mm | 165 |
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.
1244 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 Zaria.
The muggiest month is August, 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 | 37% | 98% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 3°C | 31% | 95% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 6°C | 33% | 79% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 14°C | 51% | 33% | 9% | 17% | 30% | 11% | 0% |
| May | 20°C | 69% | 5% | 3% | 9% | 48% | 35% | 0% |
| June | 21°C | 78% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 59% | 39% | 0% |
| July | 21°C | 82% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 74% | 25% | 0% |
| August | 21°C | 86% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 72% | 28% | 0% |
| September | 21°C | 84% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| October | 19°C | 73% | 8% | 12% | 14% | 52% | 14% | 0% |
| November | 11°C | 53% | 73% | 17% | 7% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 6°C | 45% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 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 17.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 14, with 12 h 47 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 14, with 11 h 28 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 Zaria 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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.