Kaduna weather in January

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In January, Kaduna has daytime highs averaging 31 °C, nights around 17 °C, with 0.03 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

30.9°C Average high
16.6°C Average low
0.03days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through January

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 32.4 °C and lows bottom out at 15.7 °C.

How January develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 January	29.9 °C	16.2 °C
11–20 January	30.7 °C	16.3 °C
21–31 January	32.0 °C	17.3 °C

Average highs rise from 29.9 °C early in January to 32.0 °C by the end of it.

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in January. Wettest date over the 30 years: January 30, at 3 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical January	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	99 %
Days above 30 °C	20 of 31	65 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0.03 of 31	0 %

Conditions in January

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	23 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	36 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	11 °C
Relative humidity	24 %
Wind speed	18 km/h
Cloud cover	30 %

Where Kaduna ranks in January

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in January	32ndof 50	0.2 mm
The driest places in the world in January	32ndof 50	0.2 mm

January compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.9 °C	under 1 mm	30 %
February	33.4 °C	1 mm	34 %
March	35.6 °C	4 mm	48 %
November	31.3 °C	under 1 mm	39 %
December	30.7 °C	under 1 mm	26 %

See all twelve months for Kaduna

January is the 6th warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 2nd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0.03 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 14 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest January day on record since 1991 reached 36 °C, 5.1 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in January

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Kaduna	31 °C	0.03
Zaria	30 °C	0
Minna	35 °C	0
Suleja	34 °C	1
Abuja	34 °C	1
Jos	28 °C	0
Gusau	31 °C	0
Kano	29 °C	0
Bida	35 °C	0

QuestionsJanuary in Kaduna, answered

How warm is Kaduna in January?

Daily highs average 31 °C and nights fall to about 17 °C, a spread of 14 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes January the 11th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Kaduna in January?

January averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 30 % of the sky.

How long are the days in January?

Kaduna averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in January. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

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
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: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. 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.