Climate averages 1991–2020

Sapele weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 32.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 41 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Sapele: daytime highs average 32.9°C and nights cool to about 22.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Warri (43 km away). In January its highs average 32.6°C, about as warm as Sapele, with 59 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Sapele ranks 96th of 143 for the warmest January highs and 135th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 33.1°C; Sapele is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 32.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 72 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Sapele climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sapele, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	32.9°C22.9°C	22.9°C	41	11.0	11.812 h
February	32.8°C24.1°C	24.1°C	72	16.5	11.912 h
March	31.6°C24.5°C	24.5°C	164	25.4	12.112 h
April	30.7°C24.3°C	24.3°C	228	27.2	12.212 h
May	30.0°C23.7°C	23.7°C	276	29.3	12.412 h
June	28.5°C23.0°C	23.0°C	310	29.5	12.512 h
July	27.5°C22.5°C	22.5°C	299	29.7	12.412 h
August	27.5°C22.4°C	22.4°C	270	28.3	12.312 h
September	28.1°C22.6°C	22.6°C	310	29.4	12.212 h
October	29.0°C22.7°C	22.7°C	298	30.2	12.012 h
November	30.4°C23.1°C	23.1°C	125	22.1	11.912 h
December	31.8°C23.1°C	23.1°C	39	11.0	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

Distance from Sapele

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 Sapele) is explained once on the Sapele year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.