Climate averages 1991–2020
Lagos weather
in October.
A hot, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Lagos: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 176 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes October a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ajegunle (7 km away). In October its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Lagos, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lagos ranks joint 135th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 81st of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 30.0°C; Lagos is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 176 mm to 79 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Ajegunle in OctoberNigeria · 7 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 170 mm rain
- Lekki in OctoberNigeria · 9 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 24.7°C · 176 mm rain
- Agege in OctoberNigeria · 19 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.5°C · 170 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in OctoberNigeria · 19 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.9°C · 176 mm rain
- Alasia in OctoberNigeria · 25 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 170 mm rain
- Irewe in OctoberNigeria · 28 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 24.4°C · 170 mm rain
- Ota in OctoberNigeria · 32 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 202 mm rain
- Ifo in OctoberNigeria · 46 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 202 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.