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 Dandi
Dandi climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation577 mm79 wet days a year
12.68° N, 8.67° EElevation 407 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goDandi · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low35° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Dandi 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 39° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 13°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 577 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (202 mm, 24 wet days) and December the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 46% in August.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Dandi is 5.1° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · April
- Coldest nights
- 13° · 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 | 29° | 32° | 36° | 39° | 39° | 37° | 33° | 31° | 33° | 35° | 33° | 30° |
| Average low | 13° | 15° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 17° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 4 mm | 24 mm | 68 mm | 177 mm | 202 mm | 93 mm | 8 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 3 | 8.5 | 19.7 | 24.3 | 18 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 14% | 23% | 25% | 26% | 26% | 41% | 46% | 35% | 24% | 19% | 16% |
| 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 | 84 | 72 | 57 | 57 | 51 | 38 | 31 | 36 | 33 | 50 | 67 | 81 |
ivMonth by month
Dandi in every month
January84
29° / 13°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
February72
32° / 15°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
March57
36° / 18°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
April57
39° / 21°
4 mm · 0.5 wet day
May51
39° / 24°
24 mm · 3 wet days
June38
37° / 25°
68 mm · 8.5 wet days
July31
33° / 23°
177 mm · 19.7 wet days
August36
31° / 23°
202 mm · 24.3 wet days
September33
33° / 23°
93 mm · 18 wet days
October50
35° / 21°
8 mm · 3.5 wet days
November67
33° / 17°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
December81
30° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days