Climate averages 1991–2020
Afikpo weather
in September.
A hot, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Afikpo: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 22.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 234 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes September a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amaigbo (16 km away). In September its highs average 28.9°C, about as warm as Afikpo, with 246 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Afikpo ranks joint 33rd of 143 for the warmest September highs and joint 86th of 143 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 143 cities is 28.6°C; Afikpo is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 234 mm to 208 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Afikpo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 6.3 | 1.6 | 11.812 h |
| February | 35.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 16 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| March | 34.0°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 54 | 10.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 32.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 120 | 17.6 | 12.212 h |
| May | 30.6°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 177 | 24.5 | 12.412 h |
| June | 29.1°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 215 | 26.1 | 12.512 h |
| July | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 207 | 27.0 | 12.412 h |
| August | 28.6°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 221 | 25.9 | 12.312 h |
| September, selected | 29.0°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 234 | 27.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.4°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 208 | 26.8 | 12.012 h |
| November | 30.9°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 54 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| December | 33.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 5.4 | 1.1 | 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
September in nearby cities
- Amaigbo in SeptemberNigeria · 16 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.7°C · 246 mm rain
- Ugep in SeptemberNigeria · 19 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.4°C · 259 mm rain
- Ohafia-Ifigh in SeptemberNigeria · 34 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.1°C · 291 mm rain
- Bende in SeptemberNigeria · 50 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 22.1°C · 291 mm rain
- Abakaliki in SeptemberNigeria · 52 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.1°C · 243 mm rain
- Isieke in SeptemberNigeria · 56 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 23.1°C · 246 mm rain
- Umuahia in SeptemberNigeria · 64 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.9°C · 291 mm rain
- Okigwe in SeptemberNigeria · 65 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.1°C · 286 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 Afikpo) is explained once on the Afikpo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.