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 Ilesa
Ilesa climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing4°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,600 mm215 wet days a year
7.63° N, 4.74° EElevation 377 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goIlesa · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low29° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Ilesa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 34° and nights 22°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 21°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 4°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,600 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (226 mm, 29 wet days) and January the driest (11 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 30% in January to 65% in July.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Ilesa is 0.9° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · February
- Coldest nights
- 21° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 30% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 34 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 41 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 | 33° | 34° | 33° | 31° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 32° |
| Average low | 21° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 21° | 21° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 21° |
| Precipitation | 11 mm | 34 mm | 101 mm | 154 mm | 179 mm | 226 mm | 200 mm | 160 mm | 263 mm | 212 mm | 46 mm | 14 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.2 | 4.8 | 14 | 21.8 | 27.5 | 28.8 | 27.3 | 23.7 | 27.7 | 26 | 8.3 | 2.5 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 35% | 52% | 60% | 62% | 61% | 65% | 65% | 62% | 58% | 43% | 30% |
| Daylight | 11h 43 | 11h 53 | 12h 04 | 12h 17 | 12h 28 | 12h 34 | 12h 31 | 12h 22 | 12h 10 | 11h 58 | 11h 47 | 11h 41 |
| Month score | 60 | 48 | 25 | 29 | 35 | 41 | 44 | 44 | 42 | 40 | 52 | 64 |
ivMonth by month
Ilesa in every month
January60
33° / 21°
11 mm · 2.2 wet days
February48
34° / 22°
34 mm · 4.8 wet days
March25
33° / 23°
101 mm · 14 wet days
April29
31° / 23°
154 mm · 21.8 wet days
May35
29° / 23°
179 mm · 27.5 wet days
June41
28° / 22°
226 mm · 28.8 wet days
July44
27° / 21°
200 mm · 27.3 wet days
August44
27° / 21°
160 mm · 23.7 wet days
September42
28° / 21°
263 mm · 27.7 wet days
October40
29° / 21°
212 mm · 26 wet days
November52
30° / 22°
46 mm · 8.3 wet days
December64
32° / 21°
14 mm · 2.5 wet days