Burutu climate by month
What the weather is like
Burutu has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 30° and nights 25°. August 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 2,730 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (348 mm, 29 wet days) and February the driest (50 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in December to 66% in May.
The sea reaches about 30° 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, Burutu is 4.6° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · February
- Coldest nights
- 23° · August
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- December · 25% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · March
- Longest day
- 12 h 26 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 49 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 | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° |
| Average low | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 22 mm | 50 mm | 118 mm | 190 mm | 271 mm | 348 mm | 483 mm | 364 mm | 436 mm | 322 mm | 99 mm | 27 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.3 | 5.7 | 20.3 | 23.8 | 28.8 | 29.2 | 28 | 20.8 | 28.3 | 29.2 | 19 | 6.7 |
| Cloud cover | 32% | 38% | 54% | 64% | 66% | 58% | 57% | 56% | 57% | 56% | 36% | 25% |
| Sea temperature | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Daylight | 11h 51 | 11h 57 | 12h 05 | 12h 14 | 12h 22 | 12h 26 | 12h 24 | 12h 18 | 12h 09 | 12h 00 | 11h 53 | 11h 49 |
| Month score | 63 | 61 | 35 | 32 | 34 | 44 | 48 | 49 | 47 | 43 | 46 | 64 |