Climate averages 1991–2020

Efon-Alaaye weather
in December.

A hot, very dry month: the joint 3rd warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 32.1°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 20.1°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 6.0 mm 1 day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Efon-Alaaye · average highYear overview

December is a hot month in Efon-Alaaye: daytime highs average 32.1°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 6.0 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes December a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 41 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Aramoko-Ekiti (14 km away). In December its highs average 33.0°C, 0.9°C warmer than Efon-Alaaye, with 6.0 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Efon-Alaaye ranks joint 87th of 143 for the warmest December highs and joint 76th of 143 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 143 cities is 32.4°C; Efon-Alaaye is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From December to January, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 33.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 6.0 mm to 12 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Efon-Alaaye climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Efon-Alaaye, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 33.2°C20.0°C20.0°C122.511.712 h
February 33.5°C21.2°C21.2°C295.811.912 h
March 32.1°C22.2°C22.2°C7815.412.112 h
April 30.3°C22.1°C22.1°C11319.112.312 h
May 28.6°C21.7°C21.7°C16623.812.512 h
June 27.1°C20.9°C20.9°C20726.512.613 h
July 26.1°C20.2°C20.2°C19627.712.513 h
August 25.9°C20.0°C20.0°C20425.812.412 h
September 26.7°C20.3°C20.3°C24327.812.212 h
October 27.8°C20.6°C20.6°C20926.112.012 h
November 29.9°C21.0°C21.0°C417.811.812 h
December, selected 32.1°C20.1°C20.1°C6.01.411.712 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

December in nearby cities

Distance from Efon-Alaaye

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 Efon-Alaaye) is explained once on the Efon-Alaaye year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Ijero-Ekiti, Ipoti and Oke Mesi lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.