Uyo climate

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Uyo is warmest in February, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 22 °C. September is the wettest month (390 mm) and January the driest (34 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Uyo averages 2,883 mm of rain and 358 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 436,606 · 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 July 22 °C
Driest month January 34 mm
Wettest month September 390 mm
Least cloud December 59 % cloud
Hottest on record November 39 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C

What to expectUyo through the year

Uyo has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in July to 33 °C in February, a swing of 3.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 358 days a year reach 25 °C, 180 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in November.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 390 mm against 34 mm in January — 11 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	34 mm	63 %
February	33.2 °C	61 mm	71 %
March	31.8 °C	166 mm	83 %
April	30.7 °C	247 mm	88 %
May	29.8 °C	303 mm	90 %
June	28.4 °C	377 mm	89 %
July	27.8 °C	365 mm	90 %
August	27.9 °C	348 mm	91 %
September	28.3 °C	390 mm	92 %
October	28.9 °C	373 mm	91 %
November	30.0 °C	177 mm	78 %
December	31.8 °C	41 mm	59 %

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	23.4 °C	27.3 °C	37.1 °C	18.2 °C	31	30
February	33.2 °C	24.2 °C	27.7 °C	38.2 °C	19.8 °C	28	27
March	31.8 °C	24.3 °C	27.1 °C	37.2 °C	20.9 °C	31	26
April	30.7 °C	24.0 °C	26.5 °C	34.9 °C	21.8 °C	30	21
May	29.8 °C	23.5 °C	25.9 °C	33.4 °C	21.5 °C	31	15
June	28.4 °C	22.7 °C	24.8 °C	31.6 °C	20.8 °C	29	4
July	27.8 °C	22.2 °C	24.2 °C	32.7 °C	20.3 °C	29	1
August	27.9 °C	22.2 °C	24.2 °C	32.9 °C	20.5 °C	29	1
September	28.3 °C	22.3 °C	24.4 °C	37.3 °C	20.7 °C	29	3
October	28.9 °C	22.5 °C	24.8 °C	32.8 °C	21.0 °C	30	7
November	30.0 °C	23.1 °C	25.7 °C	38.7 °C	21.5 °C	30	16
December	31.8 °C	23.4 °C	26.8 °C	35.4 °C	18.9 °C	31	28

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	34 mm	9	12 h/day	63 %	75 %	11 km/h
February	61 mm	14	12 h/day	71 %	78 %	11 km/h
March	166 mm	25	12 h/day	83 %	84 %	10 km/h
April	247 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	9.2 km/h
May	303 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	8.4 km/h
June	377 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	91 %	8.5 km/h
July	365 mm	30	12 h/day	90 %	91 %	9.0 km/h
August	348 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	90 %	9.4 km/h
September	390 mm	30	12 h/day	92 %	91 %	8.9 km/h
October	373 mm	30	12 h/day	91 %	91 %	8.2 km/h
November	177 mm	25	12 h/day	78 %	88 %	8.1 km/h
December	41 mm	10	12 h/day	59 %	81 %	9.4 km/h

How Uyo 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
Uyo	33 °C	22 °C	2,883 mm	358
Ikot Ekpene · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,393 mm	358
Calabar · Nigeria	32 °C	22 °C	3,124 mm	356
Aba · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,561 mm	359
Umuahia · Nigeria	34 °C	22 °C	2,012 mm	358
Ugep · Nigeria	35 °C	22 °C	1,750 mm	359
Port Harcourt · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	2,588 mm	360

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Uyo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Uyo?

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

How hot does Uyo get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 180 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

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

Which month is wettest in Uyo?

September, averaging 390 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 34 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,883 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 Uyo 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: 5.051°, 7.934° (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.