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 Daura
Daura climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing10°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation558 mm72 wet days a year
13.03° N, 8.32° EElevation 475 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goDaura · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low35° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Daura 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 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 13°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 10°.
About 558 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (193 mm, 24 wet days) and February the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 45% in August.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Daura is 5° 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
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 53 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 22 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° | 36° | 32° | 30° | 33° | 35° | 33° | 29° |
| Average low | 13° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 22° | 23° | 21° | 18° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 27 mm | 64 mm | 173 mm | 193 mm | 90 mm | 7 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 6.2 | 18.3 | 23.8 | 16.2 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 21% | 24% | 24% | 24% | 39% | 45% | 33% | 22% | 18% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 26 | 11h 43 | 12h 03 | 12h 25 | 12h 43 | 12h 53 | 12h 49 | 12h 34 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 32 | 11h 22 |
| Month score | 85 | 73 | 57 | 57 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 38 | 34 | 51 | 67 | 82 |
ivMonth by month
Daura in every month
January85
29° / 13°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
February73
32° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March57
36° / 19°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
April57
39° / 22°
3 mm · 0.3 wet days
May53
39° / 24°
27 mm · 2.2 wet days
June43
36° / 25°
64 mm · 6.2 wet days
July33
32° / 23°
173 mm · 18.3 wet days
August38
30° / 22°
193 mm · 23.8 wet days
September34
33° / 23°
90 mm · 16.2 wet days
October51
35° / 21°
7 mm · 3.2 wet days
November67
33° / 18°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
December82
29° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days