Zaria weather in February

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In February, Zaria has daytime highs averaging 32 °C, nights around 18 °C, with 0.03 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

32.5°C Average high
17.5°C Average low
0.03days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through February

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 34.5 °C and lows bottom out at 16.4 °C.

How February develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 February	31.5 °C	16.8 °C
11–20 February	32.4 °C	17.4 °C
21–28 February	33.8 °C	18.7 °C

Average highs rise from 31.5 °C early in February to 33.8 °C by the end of it.

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in February. Wettest date over the 30 years: February 22, at 3 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical February	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	28 of 28	101 %
Days above 30 °C	22 of 28	78 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 28	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0.03 of 28	0 %

Conditions in February

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	25 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	38 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	11 °C
Relative humidity	19 %
Wind speed	18 km/h
Cloud cover	32 %

Where Zaria ranks in February

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in February	40thof 50	0.4 mm
The driest places in the world in February	44thof 50	0.4 mm

February compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.6 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
February	32.5 °C	under 1 mm	32 %
March	35.6 °C	2 mm	45 %
April	36.6 °C	18 mm	56 %
December	29.7 °C	under 1 mm	25 %

See all twelve months for Zaria

February is the 4th warmest month here.
It is the 4th driest month of the year.
It ranks 3rd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0.03 of 28 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 15 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest February day on record since 1991 reached 38 °C, 5.9 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in February

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Zaria	32 °C	0.03
Kaduna	33 °C	0
Kano	32 °C	0
Gusau	34 °C	0
Jos	30 °C	0
Katsina	32 °C	0
Minna	37 °C	0
Chakwama	33 °C	0
Suleja	36 °C	1

QuestionsFebruary in Zaria, answered

How warm is Zaria in February?

Daily highs average 32 °C and nights fall to about 18 °C, a spread of 15 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes February the 5th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Zaria in February?

February averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 28 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 32 % of the sky.

How long are the days in February?

Zaria averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in February. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

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
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: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. 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.