Suleja climate

Name: Suleja
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Suleja is warmest in March, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 21 °C. August is the wettest month (332 mm) and December the driest (1.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Suleja averages 1,530 mm of rain and 355 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 162,135 · 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 March 36 °C
Coldest month August 21 °C
Driest month December 1 mm
Wettest month August 332 mm
Least cloud December 28 % cloud
Hottest on record February 41 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C

What to expectSuleja through the year

Suleja has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in August to 36 °C in March, a swing of 6.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 355 days a year reach 25 °C, 218 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 332 mm against 1 mm in December — 257 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	34.5 °C	2 mm	34 %
February	35.8 °C	4 mm	41 %
March	36.1 °C	19 mm	57 %
April	34.3 °C	55 mm	68 %
May	31.3 °C	140 mm	76 %
June	28.8 °C	205 mm	81 %
July	27.2 °C	269 mm	87 %
August	26.7 °C	332 mm	89 %
September	28.0 °C	320 mm	85 %
October	29.6 °C	170 mm	73 %
November	32.5 °C	13 mm	46 %
December	34.1 °C	1 mm	28 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	34.5 °C	21.6 °C	27.9 °C	38.6 °C	16.4 °C	31	31
February	35.8 °C	23.3 °C	29.4 °C	41.0 °C	18.4 °C	28	28
March	36.1 °C	24.5 °C	30.1 °C	40.4 °C	19.1 °C	31	31
April	34.3 °C	24.6 °C	29.1 °C	40.2 °C	19.4 °C	30	29
May	31.3 °C	23.6 °C	27.1 °C	37.5 °C	21.5 °C	31	23
June	28.8 °C	22.3 °C	25.2 °C	33.1 °C	19.8 °C	30	4
July	27.2 °C	21.5 °C	23.9 °C	31.7 °C	19.8 °C	28	0
August	26.7 °C	21.2 °C	23.5 °C	30.7 °C	19.3 °C	26	0
September	28.0 °C	21.3 °C	24.1 °C	31.7 °C	19.1 °C	28	2
October	29.6 °C	21.6 °C	25.1 °C	34.8 °C	19.4 °C	31	11
November	32.5 °C	21.6 °C	26.8 °C	36.9 °C	18.3 °C	30	28
December	34.1 °C	21.6 °C	27.6 °C	37.5 °C	18.1 °C	31	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	1	12 h/day	34 %	27 %	14 km/h
February	4 mm	1	12 h/day	41 %	31 %	13 km/h
March	19 mm	4	12 h/day	57 %	45 %	12 km/h
April	55 mm	9	12 h/day	68 %	61 %	12 km/h
May	140 mm	18	13 h/day	76 %	75 %	11 km/h
June	205 mm	23	13 h/day	81 %	82 %	10 km/h
July	269 mm	28	13 h/day	87 %	86 %	10 km/h
August	332 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	87 %	10 km/h
September	320 mm	27	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	9.3 km/h
October	170 mm	21	12 h/day	73 %	82 %	8.5 km/h
November	13 mm	2	12 h/day	46 %	56 %	10 km/h
December	1 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	31 %	14 km/h

How Suleja 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
Suleja	36 °C	21 °C	1,530 mm	355
Abuja · Nigeria	36 °C	21 °C	1,377 mm	355
Minna · Nigeria	38 °C	22 °C	1,084 mm	361
Bida · Nigeria	38 °C	20 °C	922 mm	364
Kaduna · Nigeria	36 °C	17 °C	932 mm	352
Jos · Nigeria	32 °C	14 °C	1,183 mm	309
Okene · Nigeria	35 °C	21 °C	1,136 mm	359

Where Suleja ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in December	15th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in the world in December	17th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in Africa in February	18th of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Africa in January	18th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in the world in February	18th of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in the world in January	19th of 50	34 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Suleja’s climate

When is the best time to visit Suleja?

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

How hot does Suleja get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 218 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °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 Suleja?

August, averaging 332 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is December with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,530 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 Suleja 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: 9.181°, 7.179° (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.