Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Aba
Aba climate by month
Tropical monsoon · AmBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing3°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation2,485 mm226 wet days a year
5.11° N, 7.37° EElevation 64 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goAba · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low29° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Aba has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 33° and nights 23°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,485 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (389 mm, 29 wet days) and January the driest (26 mm, 4 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 31% in December to 68% in April.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Aba is 1.9° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 33° · February
- Coldest nights
- 22° · July
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 31% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 50 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 33° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 32° |
| Average low | 22° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° |
| Precipitation | 26 mm | 42 mm | 113 mm | 189 mm | 291 mm | 323 mm | 389 mm | 350 mm | 389 mm | 270 mm | 89 mm | 14 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.7 | 3.8 | 16.7 | 21.2 | 26.3 | 27.5 | 28.7 | 24.3 | 27.5 | 28.2 | 13.7 | 4.2 |
| Cloud cover | 37% | 42% | 58% | 68% | 67% | 60% | 59% | 61% | 61% | 63% | 43% | 31% |
| Daylight | 11h 51 | 11h 58 | 12h 05 | 12h 14 | 12h 21 | 12h 25 | 12h 23 | 12h 17 | 12h 09 | 12h 01 | 11h 53 | 11h 50 |
| Month score | 56 | 52 | 26 | 27 | 31 | 40 | 44 | 42 | 41 | 37 | 41 | 62 |
ivMonth by month
Aba in every month
January56
33° / 22°
26 mm · 3.7 wet days
February52
33° / 23°
42 mm · 3.8 wet days
March26
32° / 23°
113 mm · 16.7 wet days
April27
31° / 23°
189 mm · 21.2 wet days
May31
30° / 23°
291 mm · 26.3 wet days
June40
29° / 22°
323 mm · 27.5 wet days
July44
28° / 22°
389 mm · 28.7 wet days
August42
28° / 22°
350 mm · 24.3 wet days
September41
28° / 22°
389 mm · 27.5 wet days
October37
29° / 22°
270 mm · 28.2 wet days
November41
30° / 22°
89 mm · 13.7 wet days
December62
32° / 22°
14 mm · 4.2 wet days