Sapele climate

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Sapele is warmest in January, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 22 °C. June is the wettest month (315 mm) and December the driest (39 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sapele averages 2,454 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 305,000 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month August 22 °C
Driest month December 39 mm
Wettest month June 315 mm
Least cloud December 52 % cloud
Hottest on record September 43 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C

What to expectSapele through the year

Sapele has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in August to 33 °C in January, a swing of 3.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 187 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 315 mm against 39 mm in December — 8.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.0 °C	42 mm	58 %
February	32.9 °C	73 mm	68 %
March	31.7 °C	162 mm	80 %
April	30.8 °C	228 mm	85 %
May	30.0 °C	282 mm	86 %
June	28.5 °C	315 mm	87 %
July	27.5 °C	311 mm	89 %
August	27.6 °C	266 mm	88 %
September	28.1 °C	305 mm	89 %
October	29.0 °C	304 mm	88 %
November	30.5 °C	128 mm	70 %
December	31.9 °C	39 mm	52 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	33.0 °C	22.8 °C	27.0 °C	37.5 °C	15.2 °C	31	30
February	32.9 °C	24.0 °C	27.5 °C	38.3 °C	18.0 °C	28	27
March	31.7 °C	24.5 °C	27.1 °C	38.2 °C	19.9 °C	31	28
April	30.8 °C	24.2 °C	26.6 °C	34.2 °C	22.3 °C	30	23
May	30.0 °C	23.7 °C	26.1 °C	33.0 °C	21.6 °C	31	18
June	28.5 °C	23.0 °C	25.0 °C	31.6 °C	21.0 °C	30	4
July	27.5 °C	22.5 °C	24.3 °C	30.6 °C	19.9 °C	30	0
August	27.6 °C	22.5 °C	24.4 °C	30.7 °C	20.2 °C	30	0
September	28.1 °C	22.6 °C	24.6 °C	42.6 °C	20.5 °C	30	1
October	29.0 °C	22.7 °C	25.0 °C	35.1 °C	20.7 °C	31	7
November	30.5 °C	23.1 °C	25.9 °C	33.5 °C	20.8 °C	30	21
December	31.9 °C	23.0 °C	26.7 °C	35.8 °C	16.3 °C	31	28

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	42 mm	10	12 h/day	58 %	77 %	11 km/h
February	73 mm	16	12 h/day	68 %	81 %	12 km/h
March	162 mm	25	12 h/day	80 %	86 %	11 km/h
April	228 mm	27	12 h/day	85 %	89 %	9.8 km/h
May	282 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	90 %	9.0 km/h
June	315 mm	29	12 h/day	87 %	92 %	9.0 km/h
July	311 mm	30	12 h/day	89 %	91 %	10 km/h
August	266 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	11 km/h
September	305 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	91 %	9.7 km/h
October	304 mm	30	12 h/day	88 %	91 %	8.2 km/h
November	128 mm	22	12 h/day	70 %	89 %	8.4 km/h
December	39 mm	10	12 h/day	52 %	82 %	9.9 km/h

How Sapele 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
Sapele	33 °C	22 °C	2,454 mm	362
Warri · Nigeria	33 °C	23 °C	2,819 mm	362
Benin City · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,174 mm	359
Atani · Nigeria	35 °C	23 °C	1,517 mm	363
Yenagoa · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	2,789 mm	363
Onitsha · Nigeria	35 °C	23 °C	1,264 mm	363
Nnewi · Nigeria	34 °C	22 °C	1,945 mm	360

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Sapele’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sapele?

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

How hot does Sapele get?

In January, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 187 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Sapele?

June, averaging 315 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is December with 39 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,454 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 Sapele 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: 5.894°, 5.677° (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.