Climate averages 1991–2020
Bende weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Bende: daytime highs average 32.9°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Umuahia (16 km away). In March its highs average 32.5°C, about as warm as Bende, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Bende ranks joint 102nd of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 116th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 34.2°C; Bende is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 31.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 98 mm to 176 mm.
The annual picture
March 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 | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Umuahia in MarchNigeria · 16 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 103 mm rain
- Ohafia-Ifigh in MarchNigeria · 21 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Amaigbo in MarchNigeria · 34 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Ikot Ekpene in MarchNigeria · 43 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.0°C · 128 mm rain
- Okigwe in MarchNigeria · 43 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 24.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Afikpo in MarchNigeria · 50 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 24.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Ugep in MarchNigeria · 57 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 24.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Aba in MarchNigeria · 58 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.0°C · 165 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.