Climate averages 1991–2020
Kafanchan weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Kafanchan: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 19.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 333 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kagoro (11 km away). In August its highs average 24.8°C, about as warm as Kafanchan, with 396 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Kafanchan ranks 141st of 143 for the warmest August highs and 138th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 27.8°C; Kafanchan is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 333 mm to 236 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Kafanchan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 0.9 | 0.2 | 11.612 h |
| February | 34.1°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 3.3 | 0.7 | 11.812 h |
| March | 35.1°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 15 | 2.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 33.2°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 57 | 10.0 | 12.312 h |
| May | 30.0°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 134 | 20.3 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 184 | 25.1 | 12.713 h |
| July | 25.8°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 253 | 28.9 | 12.613 h |
| August, selected | 25.3°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 333 | 29.3 | 12.412 h |
| September | 26.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 236 | 28.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.7°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 105 | 17.5 | 11.912 h |
| November | 31.5°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 3.8 | 1.0 | 11.712 h |
| December | 32.1°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Kagoro in AugustNigeria · 11 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 19.3°C · 396 mm rain
- Jos in AugustNigeria · 76 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 17.9°C · 306 mm rain
- Keffi in AugustNigeria · 94 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 279 mm rain
- Lere in AugustNigeria · 95 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.5°C · 257 mm rain
- Abuja in AugustNigeria · 105 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 21.3°C · 314 mm rain
- Lafia in AugustNigeria · 123 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.6°C · 252 mm rain
- Suleja in AugustNigeria · 130 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 21.2°C · 335 mm rain
- Kuje in AugustNigeria · 141 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 21.9°C · 311 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 Kafanchan) is explained once on the Kafanchan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.