Climate averages 1991–2020
Ekpé weather
in January.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Ekpé: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 48 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cotonou (13 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Ekpé, with 21 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Ekpé ranks joint 6th of 8 for the warmest January highs and joint 7th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 32.2°C; Ekpé is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 40 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Cotonou in JanuaryBenin · 13 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 25.3°C · 21 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in JanuaryBenin · 14 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 29 mm rain
- Godomè in JanuaryBenin · 21 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 25.1°C · 25 mm rain
- Irewe in JanuaryNigeria · 67 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Alasia in JanuaryNigeria · 70 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.4°C · 31 mm rain
- Ota in JanuaryNigeria · 84 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Ifo in JanuaryNigeria · 87 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 22.8°C · 32 mm rain
- Ajegunle in JanuaryNigeria · 88 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 31 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.