Climate averages 1991–2020

Jos weather
in January.

A warm, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 27.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 13.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall <1 mm Almost no rain

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Jos: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical January (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 37 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lere (62 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, 1.5°C warmer than Jos, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Jos ranks 143rd of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Jos is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from under 1 mm to 1.9 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

Jos climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Jos, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.9°C13.8°C	13.8°C	0	0.0	11.612 h
February	30.0°C15.8°C	15.8°C	1.9	0.2	11.812 h
March	32.0°C18.2°C	18.2°C	4.6	0.8	12.112 h
April	31.9°C20.0°C	20.0°C	39	6.8	12.312 h
May	29.2°C19.8°C	19.8°C	131	17.8	12.613 h
June	26.7°C18.9°C	18.9°C	223	26.0	12.713 h
July	24.9°C18.1°C	18.1°C	264	28.6	12.613 h
August	24.3°C17.9°C	17.9°C	306	28.8	12.412 h
September	25.9°C17.8°C	17.8°C	185	23.8	12.212 h
October	27.2°C17.5°C	17.5°C	47	9.0	11.912 h
November	28.3°C16.2°C	16.2°C	0.4	0.1	11.712 h
December	27.7°C14.2°C	14.2°C	0.2	0.0	11.612 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 Jos

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