Climate averages 1991–2020
Nkpor weather
in March.
A hot, moderately 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 Nkpor: daytime highs average 33.5°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately 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 Onitsha (5 km away). In March its highs average 33.8°C, about as warm as Nkpor, with 47 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Nkpor ranks joint 82nd of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 57th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 34.2°C; Nkpor is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 31.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 47 mm to 95 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
Nkpor climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34.0°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 5.1 | 1.1 | 11.812 h |
| February | 34.6°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 14 | 2.9 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 33.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 47 | 9.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.8°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 95 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| May | 30.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 142 | 23.0 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.7°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 184 | 25.5 | 12.512 h |
| July | 27.9°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 178 | 25.9 | 12.412 h |
| August | 28.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 177 | 23.2 | 12.312 h |
| September | 28.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 200 | 26.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.0°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 155 | 23.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 30.5°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 29 | 5.6 | 11.812 h |
| December | 32.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 4.3 | 0.9 | 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
- Onitsha in MarchNigeria · 5 kmHigh 33.8°C · Low 24.7°C · 47 mm rain
- Asaba in MarchNigeria · 12 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 25.1°C · 47 mm rain
- Nnewi in MarchNigeria · 17 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 100 mm rain
- Atani in MarchNigeria · 18 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 24.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Igbo-Ukwu in MarchNigeria · 26 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 100 mm rain
- Agulu in MarchNigeria · 26 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.2°C · 100 mm rain
- Awka in MarchNigeria · 28 kmHigh 33.8°C · Low 24.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Ihiala in MarchNigeria · 33 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 23.9°C · 109 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 Nkpor) is explained once on the Nkpor year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Onitsha and Asaba lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.