Ogbomoso weather in January

Name: Ogbomoso
Address: NG

In January, Ogbomoso has daytime highs averaging 34 °C, nights around 21 °C, with 0.8 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

33.9°C Average high
21.0°C Average low
0.8days Wet days
4mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through January

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 34.5 °C and lows bottom out at 20.0 °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	Chance of rain
1–10 January	33.5 °C	20.5 °C	1 %
11–20 January	33.9 °C	20.7 °C	2 %
21–31 January	34.2 °C	21.6 °C	4 %

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in January. Wettest date over the 30 years: January 20, at 10 %. 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	100 %
Days above 30 °C	31 of 31	99 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0.8 of 31	3 %

Conditions in January

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	27 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	37 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	15 °C
Relative humidity	49 %
Wind speed	12 km/h
Cloud cover	42 %

Where Ogbomoso ranks in January

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in January	35thof 50	34 °C
The warmest places in the world in January	36thof 50	34 °C

January compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.9 °C	4 mm	42 %
February	35.0 °C	11 mm	53 %
March	34.7 °C	38 mm	71 %
November	31.8 °C	11 mm	61 %
December	33.2 °C	2 mm	38 %

See all twelve months for Ogbomoso

January is the 3rd warmest month here.
It is the 2nd driest month of the year.
It ranks 2nd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0.8 of 31 days — 3 % of the month.
Nights are about 13 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest January day on record since 1991 reached 37 °C, 3.1 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in January

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Ogbomoso	34 °C	0.8
Oyo	34 °C	2
Ilorin	35 °C	0
Osogbo	34 °C	2
Iwo	34 °C	2
Iseyin	34 °C	1
Ila Orangun	34 °C	1
Ilesa	34 °C	3
Ile-Ife	34 °C	3

QuestionsJanuary in Ogbomoso, answered

How warm is Ogbomoso in January?

Daily highs average 34 °C and nights fall to about 21 °C, a spread of 13 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes January the 4th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Ogbomoso in January?

January averages 4 mm of rain, spread over about 1 of the 31 days — 3 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 42 % of the sky.

How long are the days in January?

Ogbomoso 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.