Warri climate

Name: Warri
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Warri is warmest in January, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. October is the wettest month (357 mm) and January the driest (57 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Warri averages 2,819 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 910,000 · 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 23 °C
Driest month January 57 mm
Wettest month October 357 mm
Least cloud December 49 % cloud
Hottest on record February 38 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C

What to expectWarri through the year

Warri changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 33 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 179 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 357 mm against 57 mm in January — 6.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.5 °C	57 mm	58 %
February	32.4 °C	96 mm	66 %
March	31.5 °C	195 mm	79 %
April	30.7 °C	263 mm	85 %
May	30.0 °C	319 mm	87 %
June	28.4 °C	343 mm	86 %
July	27.4 °C	350 mm	88 %
August	27.6 °C	274 mm	87 %
September	27.9 °C	329 mm	89 %
October	28.9 °C	357 mm	87 %
November	30.3 °C	176 mm	68 %
December	31.6 °C	61 mm	49 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.5 °C	23.0 °C	27.0 °C	37.1 °C	16.2 °C	31	29
February	32.4 °C	24.1 °C	27.4 °C	38.3 °C	18.9 °C	28	26
March	31.5 °C	24.5 °C	27.1 °C	37.7 °C	19.8 °C	31	27
April	30.7 °C	24.3 °C	26.7 °C	33.8 °C	22.4 °C	30	23
May	30.0 °C	23.8 °C	26.1 °C	33.7 °C	21.9 °C	31	17
June	28.4 °C	23.1 °C	25.1 °C	31.3 °C	20.7 °C	30	3
July	27.4 °C	22.6 °C	24.4 °C	30.0 °C	20.1 °C	30	0
August	27.6 °C	22.6 °C	24.5 °C	32.3 °C	20.4 °C	30	0
September	27.9 °C	22.7 °C	24.6 °C	31.1 °C	20.6 °C	29	1
October	28.9 °C	22.8 °C	25.1 °C	32.0 °C	20.9 °C	31	5
November	30.3 °C	23.2 °C	25.9 °C	33.1 °C	21.1 °C	30	19
December	31.6 °C	23.2 °C	26.7 °C	35.6 °C	17.1 °C	31	28

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	57 mm	13	12 h/day	58 %	78 %	11 km/h
February	96 mm	18	12 h/day	66 %	81 %	12 km/h
March	195 mm	27	12 h/day	79 %	86 %	11 km/h
April	263 mm	28	12 h/day	85 %	88 %	9.8 km/h
May	319 mm	30	12 h/day	87 %	90 %	8.9 km/h
June	343 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	91 %	9.3 km/h
July	350 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	91 %	11 km/h
August	274 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	12 km/h
September	329 mm	30	12 h/day	89 %	91 %	10 km/h
October	357 mm	31	12 h/day	87 %	91 %	8.7 km/h
November	176 mm	25	12 h/day	68 %	88 %	8.7 km/h
December	61 mm	14	12 h/day	49 %	83 %	9.9 km/h

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Warri’s climate

When is the best time to visit Warri?

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 Warri get?

In January, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 179 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 Warri?

October, averaging 357 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is January with 57 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,819 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 Warri 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: 5.517°, 5.750° (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.