Climate averages 1991–2020
Lekki weather
in December.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Lekki: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 45 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lagos (9 km away). In December its highs average 30.4°C, 0.7°C warmer than Lekki, with 33 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lekki ranks joint 135th of 143 for the warmest December highs and joint 128th of 143 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 143 cities is 32.4°C; Lekki is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 33 mm to 31 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Lagos in DecemberNigeria · 9 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Ajegunle in DecemberNigeria · 16 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 32 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in DecemberNigeria · 17 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.4°C · 33 mm rain
- Agege in DecemberNigeria · 25 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 32 mm rain
- Alasia in DecemberNigeria · 34 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 32 mm rain
- Irewe in DecemberNigeria · 37 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Ota in DecemberNigeria · 38 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 23.4°C · 31 mm rain
- Shagamu in DecemberNigeria · 48 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.2°C · 32 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.