Climate averages 1991–2020
Ekpé weather
in October.
A hot, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Ekpé: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 155 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes October a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cotonou (13 km away). In October its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Ekpé, with 110 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Ekpé ranks joint 6th of 8 for the warmest October highs and joint 7th of 8 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 8 cities is 29.2°C; Ekpé is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 155 mm to 75 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Cotonou in OctoberBenin · 13 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 24.7°C · 110 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in OctoberBenin · 14 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Godomè in OctoberBenin · 21 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.6°C · 150 mm rain
- Irewe in OctoberNigeria · 67 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 24.4°C · 170 mm rain
- Alasia in OctoberNigeria · 70 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 170 mm rain
- Ota in OctoberNigeria · 84 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 202 mm rain
- Ifo in OctoberNigeria · 87 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 202 mm rain
- Ajegunle in OctoberNigeria · 88 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 170 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.