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 Mafa
Mafa climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing10°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation550 mm75 wet days a year
11.92° N, 13.60° EElevation 306 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goMafa · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low36° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Mafa 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 41° and nights 25°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 31° and lows of 16°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 10°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 550 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (177 mm, 23 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in January to 51% in August.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Mafa is 7.2° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 41° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 15% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 49 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 26 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 | 31° | 34° | 38° | 41° | 40° | 37° | 33° | 31° | 33° | 36° | 35° | 32° |
| Average low | 16° | 18° | 21° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 5 mm | 30 mm | 64 mm | 162 mm | 177 mm | 96 mm | 16 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 8.2 | 21.3 | 23.2 | 16.7 | 3.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 15% | 16% | 24% | 26% | 26% | 32% | 47% | 51% | 43% | 27% | 21% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 30 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 23 | 12h 40 | 12h 49 | 12h 46 | 12h 31 | 12h 12 | 11h 53 | 11h 35 | 11h 26 |
| Month score | 74 | 61 | 58 | 57 | 55 | 38 | 25 | 32 | 28 | 49 | 58 | 70 |
ivMonth by month
Mafa in every month
January74
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February61
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 21°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
April57
41° / 25°
5 mm · 0.3 wet days
May55
40° / 27°
30 mm · 1.3 wet day
June38
37° / 26°
64 mm · 8.2 wet days
July25
33° / 25°
162 mm · 21.3 wet days
August32
31° / 24°
177 mm · 23.2 wet days
September28
33° / 24°
96 mm · 16.7 wet days
October49
36° / 23°
16 mm · 3.7 wet days
November58
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December70
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days