Climate averages 1991–2020
Ekpé weather
in December.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Ekpé: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cotonou (13 km away). In December its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Ekpé, with 27 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Ekpé ranks joint 6th of 8 for the warmest December highs and joint 7th of 8 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 8 cities is 31.8°C; Ekpé is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 29 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Ekpé climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.8°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 29 | 8.4 | 11.812 h |
| February | 30.3°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 40 | 11.2 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.4°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 73 | 17.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.0°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 98 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.2°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 171 | 24.9 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.7°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 229 | 26.2 | 12.512 h |
| July | 26.6°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 140 | 21.4 | 12.512 h |
| August | 26.2°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 98 | 16.2 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.0°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 144 | 22.2 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 155 | 25.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.1°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 75 | 18.6 | 11.812 h |
| December, selected | 29.7°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 37 | 10.4 | 11.812 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Cotonou in DecemberBenin · 13 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 25.6°C · 27 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in DecemberBenin · 14 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 37 mm rain
- Godomè in DecemberBenin · 21 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 25.5°C · 33 mm rain
- Irewe in DecemberNigeria · 67 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Alasia in DecemberNigeria · 70 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 32 mm rain
- Ota in DecemberNigeria · 84 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 23.4°C · 31 mm rain
- Ifo in DecemberNigeria · 87 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 23.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Ajegunle in DecemberNigeria · 88 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 32 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ekpé) is explained once on the Ekpé year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Porto-Novo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.