Lagos climate

Name: Lagos
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Lagos is warmest in February, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 24 °C. June is the wettest month (290 mm) and January the driest (30 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Lagos averages 1,589 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 15,388,000 · 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 February 31 °C
Coldest month August 24 °C
Driest month January 30 mm
Wettest month June 290 mm
Least cloud December 40 % cloud
Hottest on record March 35 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C
Warmest sea May 29 °C

What to expectLagos through the year

Lagos has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in August to 31 °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, 120 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 290 mm against 30 mm in January — 9.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Lagos 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	30.8 °C	30 mm	49 %
February	31.0 °C	43 mm	58 %
March	30.7 °C	85 mm	70 %
April	30.2 °C	125 mm	77 %
May	29.3 °C	211 mm	82 %
June	27.7 °C	290 mm	83 %
July	26.8 °C	205 mm	83 %
August	26.6 °C	135 mm	81 %
September	27.1 °C	195 mm	82 %
October	28.1 °C	164 mm	77 %
November	29.3 °C	75 mm	56 %
December	30.4 °C	32 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	30.8 °C	24.5 °C	27.2 °C	33.8 °C	18.9 °C	31	23
February	31.0 °C	25.7 °C	27.8 °C	34.4 °C	20.2 °C	28	23
March	30.7 °C	26.4 °C	28.1 °C	34.5 °C	21.0 °C	31	25
April	30.2 °C	26.3 °C	27.9 °C	32.8 °C	23.6 °C	30	18
May	29.3 °C	25.5 °C	27.2 °C	32.1 °C	23.5 °C	31	7
June	27.7 °C	24.5 °C	25.9 °C	30.2 °C	23.0 °C	30	0
July	26.8 °C	23.8 °C	25.0 °C	28.8 °C	22.6 °C	30	0
August	26.6 °C	23.6 °C	24.7 °C	28.6 °C	22.0 °C	30	0
September	27.1 °C	23.9 °C	25.2 °C	29.2 °C	22.4 °C	29	0
October	28.1 °C	24.4 °C	26.0 °C	30.6 °C	22.7 °C	31	0
November	29.3 °C	25.2 °C	27.0 °C	32.0 °C	22.3 °C	30	5
December	30.4 °C	24.9 °C	27.4 °C	33.2 °C	20.6 °C	31	19

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	30 mm	8	12 h/day	49 %	77 %	16 km/h	27.9 °C
February	43 mm	11	12 h/day	58 %	80 %	18 km/h	28.4 °C
March	85 mm	19	12 h/day	70 %	81 %	18 km/h	28.9 °C
April	125 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	83 %	17 km/h	29.0 °C
May	211 mm	26	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	15 km/h	29.1 °C
June	290 mm	28	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	16 km/h	28.0 °C
July	205 mm	25	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	18 km/h	26.2 °C
August	135 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	86 %	19 km/h	25.4 °C
September	195 mm	25	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	17 km/h	26.2 °C
October	164 mm	26	12 h/day	77 %	87 %	14 km/h	27.6 °C
November	75 mm	18	12 h/day	56 %	84 %	14 km/h	28.7 °C
December	32 mm	10	12 h/day	40 %	80 %	15 km/h	28.5 °C

How Lagos 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
Lagos	31 °C	24 °C	1,589 mm	362
Ajegunle · Nigeria	31 °C	24 °C	1,515 mm	362
Lekki · Nigeria	30 °C	24 °C	1,589 mm	362
Agege · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	1,497 mm	362
Ebute Ikorodu · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	1,661 mm	362
Ota · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	1,642 mm	361
Shagamu · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	1,811 mm	361

Where Lagos ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in May	6th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in November	9th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in April	11th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in June	12th of 50	28 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in March	19th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in October	20th of 50	28 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Lagos’s climate

When is the best time to visit Lagos?

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 January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Lagos get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 120 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 24 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Lagos?

June, averaging 290 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 30 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,589 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 Lagos 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: 6.454°, 3.395° (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.