Climate averages 1991–2020

Calabar weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 40 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Calabar: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Esuk Oron (19 km away). In January its highs average 31.0°C, 0.9°C cooler than Calabar, with 50 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Calabar ranks 108th of 143 for the warmest January highs and 134th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Calabar is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 32.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 71 mm.

The annual picture

January 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

Calabar climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Calabar, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	31.8°C23.5°C	23.5°C	40	10.8	11.912 h
February	32.2°C24.2°C	24.2°C	71	15.7	12.012 h
March	31.0°C24.3°C	24.3°C	187	27.1	12.112 h
April	30.1°C24.1°C	24.1°C	281	28.2	12.212 h
May	29.4°C23.7°C	23.7°C	340	29.6	12.312 h
June	28.0°C22.8°C	22.8°C	400	29.4	12.412 h
July	27.3°C22.3°C	22.3°C	422	30.2	12.412 h
August	27.4°C22.3°C	22.3°C	389	30.0	12.312 h
September	27.9°C22.4°C	22.4°C	419	29.7	12.112 h
October	28.4°C22.7°C	22.7°C	395	30.6	12.012 h
November	29.4°C23.3°C	23.3°C	194	26.0	11.912 h
December	30.8°C23.8°C	23.8°C	47	12.6	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

Distance from Calabar

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 Calabar) is explained once on the Calabar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.