Zaria weather in January

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In January, Zaria has daytime highs averaging 30 °C, nights around 15 °C, with 0 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

29.6°C Average high
15.3°C Average low
0days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through January

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 31.4 °C and lows bottom out at 14.4 °C.

How January 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 January	28.4 °C	14.8 °C
11–20 January	29.3 °C	14.9 °C
21–31 January	30.8 °C	16.2 °C

Average highs rise from 28.4 °C early in January to 30.8 °C by the end of it.

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in January. Wettest date over the 30 years: January 1, at 0 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical January	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	29 of 31	93 %
Days above 30 °C	14 of 31	46 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0 of 31	0 %

Conditions in January

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	22 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	36 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	9.1 °C
Relative humidity	23 %
Wind speed	18 km/h
Cloud cover	28 %

Where Zaria ranks in January

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in January	21stof 50	0.02 mm
The driest places in the world in January	21stof 50	0.02 mm

January 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 %
November	31.3 °C	under 1 mm	37 %
December	29.7 °C	under 1 mm	25 %

See all twelve months for Zaria

January is the 9th warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 2nd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 14 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest January day on record since 1991 reached 36 °C, 6.6 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in January

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Zaria	30 °C	0
Kaduna	31 °C	0
Kano	29 °C	0
Gusau	31 °C	0
Jos	28 °C	0
Katsina	29 °C	0
Minna	35 °C	0
Chakwama	30 °C	0
Suleja	34 °C	1

QuestionsJanuary in Zaria, answered

How warm is Zaria in January?

Daily highs average 30 °C and nights fall to about 15 °C, a spread of 14 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes January the 12th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Zaria in January?

January averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 28 % of the sky.

How long are the days in January?

Zaria averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in January. 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.