Climate averages 1991–2020
Ekpé weather
in February.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Ekpé: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 26.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cotonou (13 km away). In February its highs average 29.9°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 February highs and joint 7th of 8 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 8 cities is 33.0°C; Ekpé is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 73 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Cotonou in FebruaryBenin · 13 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 26.1°C · 27 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in FebruaryBenin · 14 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Godomè in FebruaryBenin · 21 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Irewe in FebruaryNigeria · 67 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.9°C · 44 mm rain
- Alasia in FebruaryNigeria · 70 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Ota in FebruaryNigeria · 84 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Ifo in FebruaryNigeria · 87 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 24.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Ajegunle in FebruaryNigeria · 88 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.6°C · 44 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.