Badagry climate by month
What the weather is like
Badagry has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,324 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (313 mm, 28 wet days) and January the driest (11 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in December to 59% in May.
The sea reaches about 29° in May. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Badagry is 5.4° cooler on a March afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · March
- Coldest nights
- 24° · August
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 19% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · May
- Longest day
- 12 h 30 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 45 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Average low | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 11 mm | 26 mm | 64 mm | 117 mm | 191 mm | 313 mm | 167 mm | 66 mm | 162 mm | 150 mm | 42 mm | 15 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.7 | 5.3 | 18.3 | 24.3 | 26.2 | 28.3 | 23 | 17.7 | 26.7 | 28.3 | 18.7 | 5.3 |
| Cloud cover | 24% | 28% | 44% | 52% | 59% | 55% | 51% | 49% | 48% | 41% | 25% | 19% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 47 | 11h 55 | 12h 05 | 12h 16 | 12h 25 | 12h 30 | 12h 28 | 12h 20 | 12h 10 | 11h 59 | 11h 50 | 11h 45 |
| Month score | 78 | 68 | 41 | 39 | 39 | 46 | 52 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 70 |