Climate averages 1991–2020
Lagos weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Lagos: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 26.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ajegunle (7 km away). In March its highs average 30.8°C, about as warm as Lagos, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lagos ranks 137th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 109th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 34.2°C; Lagos is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 91 mm to 131 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Lagos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.8°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 31 | 9.0 | 11.812 h |
| February | 31.1°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 45 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 30.7°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 91 | 20.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.2°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 131 | 21.7 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 217 | 27.1 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 293 | 28.1 | 12.512 h |
| July | 26.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 214 | 25.0 | 12.512 h |
| August | 26.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 140 | 19.9 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.1°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 192 | 25.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.1°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 176 | 26.7 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 79 | 19.4 | 11.812 h |
| December | 30.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 33 | 10.9 | 11.812 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
March in nearby cities
- Ajegunle in MarchNigeria · 7 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 26.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Lekki in MarchNigeria · 9 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 26.7°C · 91 mm rain
- Agege in MarchNigeria · 19 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in MarchNigeria · 19 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.9°C · 91 mm rain
- Alasia in MarchNigeria · 25 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 26.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Irewe in MarchNigeria · 28 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 26.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Ota in MarchNigeria · 32 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 25.1°C · 96 mm rain
- Ifo in MarchNigeria · 46 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 96 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 Lagos) is explained once on the Lagos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ebute Ikorodu and Lekki lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.