Jos climate

Name: Jos
Address: NG

Jos is warmest in March, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. August is the wettest month (303 mm) and January the driest (0.01 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jos averages 1,183 mm of rain and 309 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 1,040,000 · 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 March 32 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month January 0 mm
Wettest month August 303 mm
Least cloud December 28 % cloud
Hottest on record April 36 °C
Coldest on record January 7.8 °C

What to expectJos through the year

Jos has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in January to 32 °C in March, a swing of 5.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 309 days a year reach 25 °C, 82 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 303 mm against 0 mm in January — 45,429 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.9 °C	under 1 mm	33 %
February	30.0 °C	1 mm	38 %
March	32.0 °C	4 mm	52 %
April	31.8 °C	39 mm	64 %
May	29.1 °C	129 mm	69 %
June	26.7 °C	217 mm	68 %
July	24.8 °C	258 mm	79 %
August	24.2 °C	303 mm	85 %
September	25.8 °C	183 mm	75 %
October	27.2 °C	47 mm	64 %
November	28.3 °C	under 1 mm	44 %
December	27.7 °C	under 1 mm	28 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.9 °C	14.0 °C	20.6 °C	32.4 °C	7.8 °C	28	4
February	30.0 °C	15.9 °C	22.7 °C	34.6 °C	10.1 °C	28	15
March	32.0 °C	18.4 °C	25.2 °C	35.7 °C	11.6 °C	31	28
April	31.8 °C	20.1 °C	25.5 °C	36.2 °C	14.7 °C	30	24
May	29.1 °C	19.8 °C	23.7 °C	34.9 °C	15.6 °C	30	9
June	26.7 °C	18.8 °C	22.0 °C	31.2 °C	15.9 °C	27	0
July	24.8 °C	18.1 °C	20.7 °C	28.4 °C	16.2 °C	15	0
August	24.2 °C	17.8 °C	20.3 °C	27.9 °C	15.6 °C	10	0
September	25.8 °C	17.7 °C	21.1 °C	29.0 °C	15.7 °C	22	0
October	27.2 °C	17.6 °C	21.9 °C	29.9 °C	12.8 °C	29	0
November	28.3 °C	16.3 °C	22.1 °C	31.3 °C	11.9 °C	30	1
December	27.7 °C	14.4 °C	20.7 °C	30.6 °C	9.5 °C	29	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	33 %	27 %	12 km/h
February	1 mm	0	12 h/day	38 %	23 %	13 km/h
March	4 mm	1	12 h/day	52 %	28 %	14 km/h
April	39 mm	7	12 h/day	64 %	51 %	14 km/h
May	129 mm	17	13 h/day	69 %	74 %	13 km/h
June	217 mm	25	13 h/day	68 %	84 %	12 km/h
July	258 mm	28	13 h/day	79 %	87 %	13 km/h
August	303 mm	28	12 h/day	85 %	88 %	13 km/h
September	183 mm	24	12 h/day	75 %	85 %	11 km/h
October	47 mm	9	12 h/day	64 %	71 %	13 km/h
November	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	44 %	39 %	14 km/h
December	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	31 %	13 km/h

How Jos 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
Jos	32 °C	14 °C	1,183 mm	309
Bauchi · Nigeria	37 °C	13 °C	1,052 mm	361
Kaduna · Nigeria	36 °C	17 °C	932 mm	352
Abuja · Nigeria	36 °C	21 °C	1,377 mm	355
Zaria · Nigeria	37 °C	15 °C	780 mm	356
Chakwama · Nigeria	39 °C	14 °C	633 mm	362
Suleja · Nigeria	36 °C	21 °C	1,530 mm	355

Where Jos ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in January	18th of 50	0.01 mm
The driest places in the world in January	18th of 50	0.01 mm
The driest places in Africa in November	24th of 50	0.4 mm
The driest places in the world in November	25th of 50	0.4 mm
The driest places in Africa in December	40th of 50	0.2 mm
The driest places in the world in December	40th of 50	0.2 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Jos.

QuestionsCommon questions about Jos’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jos?

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

How hot does Jos get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 82 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Jos?

August, averaging 303 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,183 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 Jos 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: 9.928°, 8.892° (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.