Climate averages 1991–2020

Okrika weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 24.0°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 49 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Okrika · average highYear overview

January is a hot month in Okrika: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Port Harcourt (9 km away). In January its highs average 32.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Okrika, with 49 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Okrika ranks joint 115th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 137th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Okrika is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 mm to 80 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Okrika climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Okrika, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 31.3°C24.0°C24.0°C4913.211.912 h
February 31.2°C24.8°C24.8°C8018.012.012 h
March 30.4°C25.0°C25.0°C17727.212.112 h
April 29.9°C24.9°C24.9°C23127.612.212 h
May 29.2°C24.5°C24.5°C28129.512.312 h
June 27.8°C23.7°C23.7°C34129.112.412 h
July 27.1°C23.1°C23.1°C32429.112.412 h
August 27.2°C23.0°C23.0°C26528.512.312 h
September 27.6°C23.1°C23.1°C32429.612.112 h
October 28.2°C23.4°C23.4°C31530.812.012 h
November 29.1°C23.9°C23.9°C17726.611.912 h
December 30.4°C24.2°C24.2°C5415.511.912 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

Distance from Okrika

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Okrika) is explained once on the Okrika year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Port Harcourt lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.