Port Harcourt climate

Name: Port Harcourt
Address: NG

Port Harcourt is warmest in January, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. September is the wettest month (333 mm) and January the driest (48 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Port Harcourt averages 2,588 mm of rain and 360 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 2,120,000 · 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 January 32 °C
Coldest month August 23 °C
Driest month January 48 mm
Wettest month September 333 mm
Least cloud December 53 % cloud
Hottest on record February 38 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C

What to expectPort Harcourt through the year

Port Harcourt changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 360 days a year reach 25 °C, 147 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 333 mm against 48 mm in January — 7.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.1 °C	48 mm	60 %
February	32.0 °C	80 mm	67 %
March	30.9 °C	174 mm	81 %
April	30.2 °C	222 mm	86 %
May	29.5 °C	276 mm	88 %
June	28.1 °C	332 mm	88 %
July	27.4 °C	316 mm	89 %
August	27.6 °C	264 mm	89 %
September	27.9 °C	333 mm	90 %
October	28.6 °C	314 mm	88 %
November	29.5 °C	175 mm	72 %
December	31.0 °C	54 mm	53 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.1 °C	23.6 °C	27.1 °C	36.9 °C	18.2 °C	31	28
February	32.0 °C	24.4 °C	27.5 °C	37.7 °C	20.2 °C	28	25
March	30.9 °C	24.6 °C	27.1 °C	35.9 °C	20.7 °C	31	24
April	30.2 °C	24.5 °C	26.8 °C	33.0 °C	22.7 °C	30	19
May	29.5 °C	24.1 °C	26.3 °C	32.5 °C	22.5 °C	31	12
June	28.1 °C	23.3 °C	25.2 °C	31.1 °C	21.5 °C	29	2
July	27.4 °C	22.8 °C	24.5 °C	30.4 °C	20.3 °C	30	0
August	27.6 °C	22.8 °C	24.6 °C	30.6 °C	20.8 °C	30	0
September	27.9 °C	22.8 °C	24.7 °C	30.8 °C	20.7 °C	29	1
October	28.6 °C	23.1 °C	25.2 °C	31.4 °C	21.4 °C	31	2
November	29.5 °C	23.5 °C	25.9 °C	32.8 °C	22.2 °C	30	10
December	31.0 °C	23.7 °C	26.7 °C	34.9 °C	19.3 °C	31	24

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	48 mm	13	12 h/day	60 %	78 %	13 km/h
February	80 mm	17	12 h/day	67 %	81 %	13 km/h
March	174 mm	27	12 h/day	81 %	85 %	12 km/h
April	222 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	11 km/h
May	276 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	89 %	11 km/h
June	332 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	11 km/h
July	316 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	89 %	12 km/h
August	264 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	88 %	12 km/h
September	333 mm	30	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	11 km/h
October	314 mm	31	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	11 km/h
November	175 mm	26	12 h/day	72 %	88 %	10 km/h
December	54 mm	14	12 h/day	53 %	83 %	11 km/h

How Port Harcourt 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
Port Harcourt	32 °C	23 °C	2,588 mm	360
Aba · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,561 mm	359
Owerri · Nigeria	34 °C	22 °C	2,337 mm	360
Yenagoa · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	2,789 mm	363
Ikot Ekpene · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,393 mm	358
Umuahia · Nigeria	34 °C	22 °C	2,012 mm	358
Uyo · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,883 mm	358

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Port Harcourt.

QuestionsCommon questions about Port Harcourt’s climate

When is the best time to visit Port Harcourt?

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, January is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Port Harcourt get?

In January, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 147 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 23 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Port Harcourt?

September, averaging 333 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 48 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,588 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 Port Harcourt 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: 4.777°, 7.013° (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.