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 Effium
Effium climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing5°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,888 mm162 wet days a year
6.63° N, 8.06° EElevation 115 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goEffium · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low30° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Effium has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 36° and nights 25°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,888 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (296 mm, 26 wet days) and December the driest (6 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in December to 60% in April.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Effium is 1.1° warmer on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 36° · February
- Coldest nights
- 23° · July
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- December · 25% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 30 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 44 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 | 35° | 36° | 35° | 34° | 32° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 32° | 34° |
| Average low | 23° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 8 mm | 7 mm | 44 mm | 142 mm | 241 mm | 276 mm | 296 mm | 287 mm | 316 mm | 243 mm | 22 mm | 6 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.3 | 2 | 9 | 14.8 | 17.5 | 24 | 26.2 | 23 | 22.2 | 15.2 | 5.2 | 1.2 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 35% | 51% | 60% | 60% | 52% | 57% | 60% | 57% | 58% | 39% | 25% |
| Daylight | 11h 47 | 11h 55 | 12h 05 | 12h 16 | 12h 25 | 12h 30 | 12h 28 | 12h 20 | 12h 10 | 11h 59 | 11h 49 | 11h 44 |
| Month score | 55 | 51 | 28 | 19 | 27 | 37 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 55 | 60 |
ivMonth by month
Effium in every month
January55
35° / 23°
8 mm · 1.3 wet day
February51
36° / 25°
7 mm · 2 wet days
March28
35° / 25°
44 mm · 9 wet days
April19
34° / 25°
142 mm · 14.8 wet days
May27
32° / 24°
241 mm · 17.5 wet days
June37
30° / 23°
276 mm · 24 wet days
July39
29° / 23°
296 mm · 26.2 wet days
August38
29° / 23°
287 mm · 23 wet days
September36
30° / 23°
316 mm · 22.2 wet days
October34
30° / 23°
243 mm · 15.2 wet days
November55
32° / 23°
22 mm · 5.2 wet days
December60
34° / 23°
6 mm · 1.2 wet day