Agege climate

Name: Agege
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Agege is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. June is the wettest month (263 mm) and December the driest (31 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Agege averages 1,497 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 683,600 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month February 32 °C
Coldest month August 23 °C
Driest month December 31 mm
Wettest month June 263 mm
Least cloud December 40 % cloud
Hottest on record February 37 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C
Warmest sea May 29 °C

What to expectAgege through the year

Agege has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in August to 32 °C in February, a swing of 3.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 158 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 263 mm against 31 mm in December — 8.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Agege is warmest in May at 29 °C and coldest in August at 25 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.2 °C	31 mm	49 %
February	32.3 °C	44 mm	58 %
March	31.5 °C	80 mm	70 %
April	30.8 °C	116 mm	76 %
May	29.7 °C	195 mm	82 %
June	28.1 °C	263 mm	82 %
July	27.2 °C	190 mm	83 %
August	27.1 °C	122 mm	81 %
September	27.7 °C	180 mm	82 %
October	28.7 °C	170 mm	76 %
November	29.9 °C	75 mm	55 %
December	31.4 °C	31 mm	40 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.2 °C	23.5 °C	27.0 °C	36.8 °C	17.6 °C	31	28
February	32.3 °C	24.7 °C	27.7 °C	37.3 °C	18.9 °C	28	26
March	31.5 °C	25.5 °C	27.8 °C	36.4 °C	19.5 °C	31	28
April	30.8 °C	25.3 °C	27.5 °C	34.6 °C	23.1 °C	30	23
May	29.7 °C	24.7 °C	26.7 °C	34.7 °C	22.6 °C	31	12
June	28.1 °C	23.7 °C	25.4 °C	31.4 °C	21.9 °C	30	1
July	27.2 °C	23.0 °C	24.7 °C	30.1 °C	21.1 °C	30	0
August	27.1 °C	22.8 °C	24.5 °C	30.6 °C	20.7 °C	30	0
September	27.7 °C	23.1 °C	24.8 °C	32.0 °C	21.6 °C	29	0
October	28.7 °C	23.5 °C	25.5 °C	32.0 °C	21.8 °C	31	2
November	29.9 °C	24.1 °C	26.5 °C	33.5 °C	21.2 °C	30	13
December	31.4 °C	23.8 °C	26.9 °C	36.3 °C	19.1 °C	31	25

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	31 mm	8	12 h/day	49 %	76 %	15 km/h	27.9 °C
February	44 mm	11	12 h/day	58 %	79 %	17 km/h	28.4 °C
March	80 mm	18	12 h/day	70 %	82 %	17 km/h	28.9 °C
April	116 mm	20	12 h/day	76 %	84 %	16 km/h	29.0 °C
May	195 mm	25	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	14 km/h	29.1 °C
June	263 mm	28	13 h/day	82 %	89 %	15 km/h	28.0 °C
July	190 mm	24	12 h/day	83 %	88 %	17 km/h	26.2 °C
August	122 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	87 %	18 km/h	25.4 °C
September	180 mm	24	12 h/day	82 %	88 %	16 km/h	26.2 °C
October	170 mm	26	12 h/day	76 %	88 %	13 km/h	27.6 °C
November	75 mm	17	12 h/day	55 %	86 %	13 km/h	28.7 °C
December	31 mm	9	12 h/day	40 %	81 %	14 km/h	28.5 °C

How Agege compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Agege	32 °C	23 °C	1,497 mm	362
Ota · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	1,642 mm	361
Ebute Ikorodu · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	1,661 mm	362
Ajegunle · Nigeria	31 °C	24 °C	1,515 mm	362
Lagos · Nigeria	31 °C	24 °C	1,589 mm	362
Lekki · Nigeria	30 °C	24 °C	1,589 mm	362
Shagamu · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	1,811 mm	361

Where Agege ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in May	8th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in November	11th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in April	13th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in June	14th of 50	28 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa year-round	15th of 50	28 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in December	16th of 50	29 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Agege’s climate

When is the best time to visit Agege?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, February is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Agege get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 158 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Agege?

June, averaging 263 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is December with 31 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,497 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Agege rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 6.616°, 3.333° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.