Climate averages 1991–2020

Ikare weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.3°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 20.9°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 211 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Ikare · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Ikare: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 211 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 22 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ode (30 km away). In August its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Ikare, with 231 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Ikare ranks joint 85th of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 79th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 27.8°C; Ikare is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 211 mm to 221 mm.

The annual picture

August 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

Ikare climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Ikare, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 33.7°C20.6°C20.6°C8.52.211.712 h
February 34.3°C22.0°C22.0°C215.011.912 h
March 33.6°C23.1°C23.1°C6212.612.112 h
April 32.0°C23.1°C23.1°C10216.612.312 h
May 30.3°C22.6°C22.6°C16122.812.512 h
June 28.6°C21.8°C21.8°C20225.912.613 h
July 27.4°C21.1°C21.1°C20327.612.513 h
August, selected 27.3°C20.9°C20.9°C21125.612.412 h
September 28.2°C21.2°C21.2°C22126.912.212 h
October 29.2°C21.5°C21.5°C16523.712.012 h
November 31.3°C21.8°C21.8°C347.211.812 h
December 32.9°C20.7°C20.7°C5.21.511.712 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Ikare

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