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 Bindawa
Bindawa climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing10°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation696 mm89 wet days a year
12.67° N, 7.81° EElevation 532 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goBindawa · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low34° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Bindawa has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 38° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 10°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 696 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (232 mm, 26 wet days) and December the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 47% in August.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Bindawa is 4.5° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 38° · April
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 52 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 23 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 | 28° | 31° | 35° | 38° | 38° | 35° | 31° | 30° | 32° | 34° | 32° | 29° |
| Average low | 14° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 6 mm | 42 mm | 94 mm | 191 mm | 232 mm | 116 mm | 14 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 4 | 12.7 | 23 | 25.5 | 18.3 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 14% | 23% | 26% | 27% | 28% | 41% | 47% | 36% | 25% | 18% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 27 | 11h 44 | 12h 03 | 12h 25 | 12h 42 | 12h 52 | 12h 48 | 12h 33 | 12h 12 | 11h 52 | 11h 33 | 11h 23 |
| Month score | 85 | 73 | 56 | 56 | 49 | 28 | 36 | 40 | 37 | 55 | 69 | 83 |
ivMonth by month
Bindawa in every month
January85
28° / 14°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
February73
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
March56
35° / 19°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
April56
38° / 22°
6 mm · 0.8 wet day
May49
38° / 24°
42 mm · 4 wet days
June28
35° / 24°
94 mm · 12.7 wet days
July36
31° / 23°
191 mm · 23 wet days
August40
30° / 22°
232 mm · 25.5 wet days
September37
32° / 22°
116 mm · 18.3 wet days
October55
34° / 21°
14 mm · 3.5 wet days
November69
32° / 18°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
December83
29° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days