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 Shelleng
Shelleng climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation702 mm140 wet days a year
9.90° N, 12.01° EElevation 185 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goShelleng · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Shelleng 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 40° and nights 27°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 7°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 702 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (152 mm, 27 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 17% in December to 56% in August.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Shelleng is 6.2° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 18° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 17% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 42 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 33 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 | 34° | 37° | 40° | 40° | 37° | 35° | 31° | 30° | 31° | 33° | 36° | 35° |
| Average low | 18° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 21° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 3 mm | 29 mm | 72 mm | 92 mm | 152 mm | 180 mm | 133 mm | 40 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 7.5 | 14 | 23.3 | 27.2 | 26.8 | 25.8 | 12.3 | 1.5 | 0.2 |
| Cloud cover | 19% | 22% | 33% | 40% | 43% | 42% | 54% | 56% | 50% | 39% | 27% | 17% |
| Daylight | 11h 36 | 11h 49 | 12h 04 | 12h 21 | 12h 34 | 12h 42 | 12h 39 | 12h 27 | 12h 11 | 11h 55 | 11h 40 | 11h 33 |
| Month score | 61 | 58 | 53 | 36 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 36 | 35 | 32 | 54 | 60 |
ivMonth by month
Shelleng in every month
January61
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February58
37° / 21°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March53
40° / 24°
3 mm · 1.5 wet days
April36
40° / 27°
29 mm · 7.5 wet days
May20
37° / 27°
72 mm · 14 wet days
June22
35° / 26°
92 mm · 23.3 wet days
July30
31° / 24°
152 mm · 27.2 wet days
August36
30° / 23°
180 mm · 26.8 wet days
September35
31° / 24°
133 mm · 25.8 wet days
October32
33° / 24°
40 mm · 12.3 wet days
November54
36° / 21°
1 mm · 1.5 wet days
December60
35° / 19°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days