Climate averages 1991–2020
Lekki weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Lekki: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lagos (9 km away). In August its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Lekki, with 140 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lekki ranks joint 136th of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 6th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 27.8°C; Lekki is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 140 mm to 192 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
Lekki climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.9°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 31 | 9.0 | 11.812 h |
| February | 30.3°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 45 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.1°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 91 | 20.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.8°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 131 | 21.7 | 12.312 h |
| May | 28.9°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 217 | 27.1 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 293 | 28.1 | 12.512 h |
| July | 26.4°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 214 | 25.0 | 12.512 h |
| August, selected | 26.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 140 | 19.9 | 12.312 h |
| September | 26.7°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 192 | 25.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 27.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 176 | 26.7 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 79 | 19.4 | 11.812 h |
| December | 29.7°C25.5°C | 25.5°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
August in nearby cities
- Lagos in AugustNigeria · 9 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 23.5°C · 140 mm rain
- Ajegunle in AugustNigeria · 16 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 23.5°C · 124 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in AugustNigeria · 17 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 140 mm rain
- Agege in AugustNigeria · 25 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 124 mm rain
- Alasia in AugustNigeria · 34 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 23.2°C · 124 mm rain
- Irewe in AugustNigeria · 37 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 23.6°C · 124 mm rain
- Ota in AugustNigeria · 38 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 142 mm rain
- Shagamu in AugustNigeria · 48 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 22.5°C · 175 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 Lekki) is explained once on the Lekki year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Lagos and Ebute Ikorodu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.