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 Uga
Uga climate by month
Tropical monsoon · AmBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing4°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation2,476 mm206 wet days a year
5.94° N, 7.08° EElevation 227 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goUga · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low29° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Uga has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 34° and nights 23°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 4°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,476 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (384 mm, 28 wet days) and January the driest (22 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 30% in December to 67% in April.
Compared with Abuja, the capital, Uga is 1.1° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · February
- Coldest nights
- 22° · July
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 30% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 28 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 47 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° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 32° |
| Average low | 22° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° |
| Precipitation | 22 mm | 28 mm | 91 mm | 204 mm | 318 mm | 333 mm | 384 mm | 308 mm | 418 mm | 309 mm | 52 mm | 9 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.3 | 2.7 | 13 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 27.5 | 23.8 | 26.7 | 26.2 | 11 | 2.5 |
| Cloud cover | 35% | 42% | 58% | 67% | 67% | 61% | 64% | 66% | 64% | 65% | 44% | 30% |
| Daylight | 11h 49 | 11h 56 | 12h 05 | 12h 15 | 12h 23 | 12h 28 | 12h 26 | 12h 19 | 12h 09 | 12h 00 | 11h 51 | 11h 47 |
| Month score | 58 | 51 | 25 | 26 | 31 | 39 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 37 | 47 | 65 |
ivMonth by month
Uga in every month
January58
33° / 22°
22 mm · 2.3 wet days
February51
34° / 23°
28 mm · 2.7 wet days
March25
33° / 23°
91 mm · 13 wet days
April26
31° / 23°
204 mm · 19 wet days
May31
30° / 23°
318 mm · 24 wet days
June39
29° / 22°
333 mm · 27 wet days
July42
28° / 22°
384 mm · 27.5 wet days
August41
28° / 22°
308 mm · 23.8 wet days
September39
28° / 22°
418 mm · 26.7 wet days
October37
29° / 22°
309 mm · 26.2 wet days
November47
30° / 22°
52 mm · 11 wet days
December65
32° / 22°
9 mm · 2.5 wet days