Ijero-Ekiti climate

Name: Ijero-Ekiti
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Ijero-Ekiti is warmest in February, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. September is the wettest month (237 mm) and December the driest (5.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ijero-Ekiti averages 1,455 mm of rain and 351 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 167,632 · 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 34 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month December 6 mm
Wettest month September 237 mm
Least cloud December 45 % cloud
Hottest on record February 39 °C
Coldest on record December 16 °C

What to expectIjero-Ekiti through the year

Ijero-Ekiti has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 34 °C in January to 34 °C in February, a swing of 4.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 351 days a year reach 25 °C, 185 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 237 mm against 6 mm in December — 40 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.9 °C	12 mm	50 %
February	34.4 °C	30 mm	62 %
March	33.2 °C	73 mm	80 %
April	31.4 °C	109 mm	85 %
May	29.7 °C	157 mm	88 %
June	28.0 °C	197 mm	89 %
July	26.8 °C	195 mm	91 %
August	26.6 °C	203 mm	92 %
September	27.6 °C	237 mm	90 %
October	28.8 °C	198 mm	87 %
November	31.0 °C	37 mm	69 %
December	33.1 °C	6 mm	45 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	33.9 °C	20.3 °C	26.4 °C	37.4 °C	15.6 °C	31	31
February	34.4 °C	21.6 °C	27.1 °C	38.9 °C	16.5 °C	28	28
March	33.2 °C	22.6 °C	26.5 °C	38.3 °C	16.7 °C	31	29
April	31.4 °C	22.6 °C	25.7 °C	36.6 °C	20.0 °C	30	23
May	29.7 °C	22.3 °C	24.8 °C	33.3 °C	20.0 °C	31	13
June	28.0 °C	21.5 °C	23.6 °C	32.1 °C	19.7 °C	29	2
July	26.8 °C	20.7 °C	22.8 °C	30.4 °C	18.9 °C	27	0
August	26.6 °C	20.5 °C	22.7 °C	30.9 °C	17.6 °C	26	0
September	27.6 °C	20.8 °C	23.1 °C	31.5 °C	19.3 °C	27	1
October	28.8 °C	21.2 °C	23.7 °C	32.7 °C	19.2 °C	30	6
November	31.0 °C	21.4 °C	25.1 °C	35.0 °C	17.1 °C	30	22
December	33.1 °C	20.5 °C	26.0 °C	36.9 °C	15.5 °C	31	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	12 mm	2	12 h/day	50 %	50 %	11 km/h
February	30 mm	6	12 h/day	62 %	59 %	12 km/h
March	73 mm	14	12 h/day	80 %	75 %	13 km/h
April	109 mm	18	12 h/day	85 %	82 %	13 km/h
May	157 mm	23	12 h/day	88 %	87 %	12 km/h
June	197 mm	26	13 h/day	89 %	89 %	12 km/h
July	195 mm	27	13 h/day	91 %	89 %	12 km/h
August	203 mm	25	12 h/day	92 %	88 %	12 km/h
September	237 mm	27	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	11 km/h
October	198 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	9.5 km/h
November	37 mm	7	12 h/day	69 %	77 %	9.7 km/h
December	6 mm	1	12 h/day	45 %	58 %	10 km/h

How Ijero-Ekiti 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
Ijero-Ekiti	34 °C	20 °C	1,455 mm	351
Efon-Alaaye · Nigeria	33 °C	20 °C	1,481 mm	340
Ado-Ekiti · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,342 mm	351
Ila Orangun · Nigeria	34 °C	20 °C	1,500 mm	352
Ilesa · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,424 mm	352
Ise-Ekiti · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,375 mm	355
Osogbo · Nigeria	35 °C	21 °C	1,223 mm	356

Where Ijero-Ekiti ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in January	37th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in the world in January	38th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in Africa in December	44th of 50	33 °C
The warmest places in the world in December	50th of 50	33 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Ijero-Ekiti’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ijero-Ekiti?

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 Ijero-Ekiti get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 185 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ijero-Ekiti?

September, averaging 237 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is December with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,455 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 Ijero-Ekiti 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: 7.815°, 5.067° (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.