Climate averages 1991–2020

Aku weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 21.7°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 244 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a warm month in Aku: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 21.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 244 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nsukka (19 km away). In August its highs average 26.8°C, 0.7°C cooler than Aku, with 241 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Aku ranks joint 69th of 143 for the warmest August highs and 107th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 27.8°C; Aku is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 244 mm to 295 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Aku climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Aku, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	34.4°C22.2°C	22.2°C	9.9	2.1	11.812 h
February	34.8°C23.3°C	23.3°C	23	5.2	11.912 h
March	33.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	71	12.0	12.112 h
April	31.7°C23.9°C	23.9°C	132	17.0	12.312 h
May	30.0°C23.4°C	23.4°C	218	24.6	12.412 h
June	28.5°C22.5°C	22.5°C	267	26.9	12.513 h
July	27.5°C21.8°C	21.8°C	247	28.5	12.512 h
August, selected	27.5°C21.7°C	21.7°C	244	27.1	12.312 h
September	28.2°C22.0°C	22.0°C	295	28.4	12.212 h
October	28.9°C22.3°C	22.3°C	264	27.0	12.012 h
November	30.6°C22.5°C	22.5°C	60	8.9	11.812 h
December	33.2°C22.0°C	22.0°C	7.8	1.6	11.712 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Aku

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Aku) is explained once on the Aku year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.