Climate averages 1991–2020
Epe weather
in January.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Epe: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ijebu Ode (27 km away). In January its highs average 32.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Epe, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Epe ranks joint 115th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 119th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Epe is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 31.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 46 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
Epe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 31.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 30 | 8.9 | 11.812 h |
| February | 31.5°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 46 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.9°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 95 | 21.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.3°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 141 | 22.9 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 229 | 28.3 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.0°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 308 | 28.6 | 12.512 h |
| July | 27.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 267 | 26.8 | 12.512 h |
| August | 26.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 185 | 22.7 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 230 | 27.2 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.5°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 195 | 27.9 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 86 | 20.4 | 11.812 h |
| December | 30.6°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 33 | 11.1 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Ijebu Ode in JanuaryNigeria · 27 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 22.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Ijebu-Igbo in JanuaryNigeria · 43 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 22.5°C · 27 mm rain
- Shagamu in JanuaryNigeria · 47 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 22.8°C · 33 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in JanuaryNigeria · 55 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Lekki in JanuaryNigeria · 58 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Lagos in JanuaryNigeria · 67 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Agege in JanuaryNigeria · 72 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 23.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Ajegunle in JanuaryNigeria · 74 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 31 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 Epe) is explained once on the Epe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.