Ondo climate

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Ondo is warmest in February, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 21 °C. June is the wettest month (263 mm) and December the driest (19 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ondo averages 1,902 mm of rain and 353 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 375,000 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month August 21 °C
Driest month December 19 mm
Wettest month June 263 mm
Least cloud December 50 % cloud
Hottest on record March 38 °C
Coldest on record February 16 °C

What to expectOndo through the year

Ondo has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in August to 33 °C in February, a swing of 3.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 353 days a year reach 25 °C, 154 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 263 mm against 19 mm in December — 14 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.9 °C	23 mm	55 %
February	33.2 °C	50 mm	65 %
March	31.8 °C	110 mm	80 %
April	30.4 °C	174 mm	85 %
May	29.2 °C	232 mm	87 %
June	27.8 °C	263 mm	87 %
July	26.8 °C	259 mm	89 %
August	26.8 °C	230 mm	90 %
September	27.5 °C	263 mm	90 %
October	28.5 °C	209 mm	88 %
November	30.0 °C	71 mm	72 %
December	31.6 °C	19 mm	50 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.9 °C	21.6 °C	26.2 °C	37.2 °C	16.0 °C	31	29
February	33.2 °C	22.9 °C	26.9 °C	38.2 °C	15.5 °C	28	27
March	31.8 °C	23.8 °C	26.6 °C	38.3 °C	17.6 °C	31	26
April	30.4 °C	23.6 °C	25.9 °C	35.0 °C	20.9 °C	30	18
May	29.2 °C	23.1 °C	25.2 °C	33.3 °C	20.6 °C	31	8
June	27.8 °C	22.3 °C	24.1 °C	31.5 °C	20.1 °C	29	1
July	26.8 °C	21.6 °C	23.4 °C	30.2 °C	18.8 °C	27	0
August	26.8 °C	21.4 °C	23.3 °C	31.2 °C	19.2 °C	27	0
September	27.5 °C	21.8 °C	23.6 °C	31.1 °C	19.7 °C	28	0
October	28.5 °C	22.1 °C	24.3 °C	31.7 °C	20.4 °C	31	3
November	30.0 °C	22.6 °C	25.3 °C	33.8 °C	17.8 °C	30	14
December	31.6 °C	21.8 °C	25.8 °C	35.8 °C	16.1 °C	31	27

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	23 mm	7	12 h/day	55 %	68 %	11 km/h
February	50 mm	12	12 h/day	65 %	74 %	12 km/h
March	110 mm	23	12 h/day	80 %	83 %	11 km/h
April	174 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	11 km/h
May	232 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	90 %	9.3 km/h
June	263 mm	29	13 h/day	87 %	91 %	9.5 km/h
July	259 mm	29	13 h/day	89 %	91 %	11 km/h
August	230 mm	28	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	11 km/h
September	263 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	91 %	9.7 km/h
October	209 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	8.6 km/h
November	71 mm	16	12 h/day	72 %	86 %	8.6 km/h
December	19 mm	6	12 h/day	50 %	76 %	9.7 km/h

How Ondo 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
Ondo	33 °C	21 °C	1,902 mm	353
Akure · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,546 mm	353
Ile-Ife · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,377 mm	356
Ilesa · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,424 mm	352
Efon-Alaaye · Nigeria	33 °C	20 °C	1,481 mm	340
Ado-Ekiti · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,342 mm	351
Ise-Ekiti · Nigeria	34 °C	21 °C	1,375 mm	355

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ondo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ondo?

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 Ondo get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 154 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ondo?

June, averaging 263 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is December with 19 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,902 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 Ondo 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: 7.093°, 4.835° (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.