Climate averages 1991–2020
Bende weather
in January.
A very hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a very hot month in Bende: daytime highs average 34.1°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Umuahia (16 km away). In January its highs average 34.1°C, about as warm as Bende, with 17 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Bende ranks joint 50th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 103rd of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Bende is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 34.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 15 mm to 34 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
Bende climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 34.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 15 | 4.1 | 11.812 h |
| February | 34.5°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 34 | 7.8 | 11.912 h |
| March | 32.9°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 98 | 18.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 176 | 23.7 | 12.212 h |
| May | 30.0°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 231 | 27.8 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 263 | 28.2 | 12.412 h |
| July | 27.8°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 274 | 28.5 | 12.412 h |
| August | 28.0°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 258 | 27.7 | 12.312 h |
| September | 28.3°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 291 | 29.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 271 | 29.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 30.4°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 88 | 15.9 | 11.912 h |
| December | 32.6°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 15 | 4.1 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Umuahia in JanuaryNigeria · 16 kmHigh 34.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Ohafia-Ifigh in JanuaryNigeria · 21 kmHigh 34.4°C · Low 22.9°C · 15 mm rain
- Amaigbo in JanuaryNigeria · 34 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 10 mm rain
- Ikot Ekpene in JanuaryNigeria · 43 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Okigwe in JanuaryNigeria · 43 kmHigh 34.7°C · Low 22.6°C · 16 mm rain
- Afikpo in JanuaryNigeria · 50 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 23.7°C · 6.3 mm rain
- Ugep in JanuaryNigeria · 57 kmHigh 34.7°C · Low 23.5°C · 11 mm rain
- Aba in JanuaryNigeria · 58 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 23.2°C · 38 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 Bende) is explained once on the Bende year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ohafia-Ifigh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.