Climate averages 1991–2020
Lekki weather
in January.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Lekki: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lagos (9 km away). In January its highs average 30.8°C, 0.9°C warmer than Lekki, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lekki ranks joint 127th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 121st of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Lekki is 3.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 31 mm to 45 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Lagos in JanuaryNigeria · 9 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Ajegunle in JanuaryNigeria · 16 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 31 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in JanuaryNigeria · 17 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Agege in JanuaryNigeria · 25 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 23.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Alasia in JanuaryNigeria · 34 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.4°C · 31 mm rain
- Irewe in JanuaryNigeria · 37 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Ota in JanuaryNigeria · 38 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Shagamu in JanuaryNigeria · 48 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 22.8°C · 33 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.