Yenagoa climate

Name: Yenagoa
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Yenagoa is warmest in January, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. October is the wettest month (375 mm) and January the driest (60 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yenagoa averages 2,789 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Nigeria · population 365,000 · 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 60 mm
Wettest month October 375 mm
Least cloud December 50 % cloud
Hottest on record February 38 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C

What to expectYenagoa through the year

Yenagoa 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, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 168 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 375 mm against 60 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	32.1 °C	60 mm	58 %
February	32.1 °C	97 mm	67 %
March	31.2 °C	198 mm	80 %
April	30.6 °C	247 mm	86 %
May	29.9 °C	302 mm	88 %
June	28.4 °C	336 mm	88 %
July	27.6 °C	327 mm	89 %
August	27.8 °C	244 mm	89 %
September	28.1 °C	333 mm	90 %
October	28.9 °C	375 mm	87 %
November	30.0 °C	206 mm	69 %
December	31.2 °C	64 mm	50 %

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	23.9 °C	27.3 °C	37.4 °C	18.7 °C	31	28
February	32.1 °C	24.6 °C	27.6 °C	37.9 °C	21.2 °C	28	25
March	31.2 °C	24.8 °C	27.2 °C	36.8 °C	21.7 °C	31	26
April	30.6 °C	24.5 °C	26.9 °C	33.6 °C	22.8 °C	30	22
May	29.9 °C	24.1 °C	26.4 °C	33.3 °C	22.4 °C	31	16
June	28.4 °C	23.3 °C	25.3 °C	31.4 °C	21.2 °C	30	2
July	27.6 °C	22.9 °C	24.7 °C	30.6 °C	20.7 °C	30	0
August	27.8 °C	22.9 °C	24.7 °C	31.3 °C	21.2 °C	30	1
September	28.1 °C	22.9 °C	24.9 °C	30.8 °C	21.0 °C	30	1
October	28.9 °C	23.1 °C	25.3 °C	31.6 °C	21.5 °C	31	4
November	30.0 °C	23.4 °C	26.0 °C	32.5 °C	21.8 °C	30	16
December	31.2 °C	23.7 °C	26.8 °C	35.5 °C	20.0 °C	31	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	60 mm	12	12 h/day	58 %	77 %	12 km/h
February	97 mm	17	12 h/day	67 %	80 %	13 km/h
March	198 mm	27	12 h/day	80 %	84 %	12 km/h
April	247 mm	28	12 h/day	86 %	86 %	11 km/h
May	302 mm	30	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	9.9 km/h
June	336 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	89 %	10 km/h
July	327 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	88 %	11 km/h
August	244 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	87 %	12 km/h
September	333 mm	30	12 h/day	90 %	89 %	11 km/h
October	375 mm	31	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	9.8 km/h
November	206 mm	25	12 h/day	69 %	87 %	9.7 km/h
December	64 mm	13	12 h/day	50 %	82 %	11 km/h

How Yenagoa 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
Yenagoa	32 °C	23 °C	2,789 mm	363
Port Harcourt · Nigeria	32 °C	23 °C	2,588 mm	360
Warri · Nigeria	33 °C	23 °C	2,819 mm	362
Owerri · Nigeria	34 °C	22 °C	2,337 mm	360
Aba · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,561 mm	359
Sapele · Nigeria	33 °C	22 °C	2,454 mm	362
Atani · Nigeria	35 °C	23 °C	1,517 mm	363

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yenagoa’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yenagoa?

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 Yenagoa get?

In January, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 168 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 Yenagoa?

October, averaging 375 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is January with 60 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,789 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 Yenagoa 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: 4.927°, 6.268° (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.