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Buguma climate by month
What the weather is like
Buguma has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 32° and nights 24°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,311 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (302 mm, 29 wet days) and February the driest (54 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 28% in December to 67% in April.
The sea reaches about 29° in March. 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, Buguma is 3.4° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · February
- Coldest nights
- 23° · August
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- December · 28% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · March
- Longest day
- 12 h 24 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 51 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 | 31° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 31° |
| Average low | 24° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 28 mm | 54 mm | 112 mm | 165 mm | 253 mm | 302 mm | 368 mm | 305 mm | 378 mm | 248 mm | 79 mm | 19 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.5 | 4.5 | 19.3 | 23 | 28 | 29.2 | 28.7 | 24.8 | 28.7 | 29 | 16.8 | 5.5 |
| Cloud cover | 36% | 41% | 57% | 67% | 67% | 61% | 60% | 61% | 60% | 59% | 40% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° |
| Daylight | 11h 52 | 11h 58 | 12h 05 | 12h 13 | 12h 20 | 12h 24 | 12h 22 | 12h 16 | 12h 09 | 12h 01 | 11h 54 | 11h 51 |
| Month score | 58 | 57 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 41 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 40 | 44 | 64 |