Climate averages 1991–2020

Zaria weather
in July.

A warm, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.9°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 20.8°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 150 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Zaria: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 150 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes July a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 42 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Funtua (64 km away). In July its highs average 27.7°C, about as warm as Zaria, with 160 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Zaria ranks joint 58th of 143 for the warmest July highs and 25th of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 28.2°C; Zaria is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 150 mm to 233 mm.

The annual picture

July 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

Zaria climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zaria, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	29.6°C15.4°C	15.4°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
February	32.5°C17.6°C	17.6°C	0.6	0.1	11.812 h
March	35.7°C20.4°C	20.4°C	1.7	0.4	12.112 h
April	36.6°C23.0°C	23.0°C	19	4.1	12.412 h
May	34.2°C23.2°C	23.2°C	79	13.4	12.613 h
June	30.6°C21.9°C	21.9°C	110	16.5	12.813 h
July, selected	27.9°C20.8°C	20.8°C	150	22.8	12.713 h
August	26.9°C20.4°C	20.4°C	233	25.9	12.512 h
September	28.3°C20.4°C	20.4°C	169	22.9	12.212 h
October	30.2°C19.7°C	19.7°C	55	9.3	11.912 h
November	31.3°C17.7°C	17.7°C	0.2	0.1	11.612 h
December	29.7°C16.0°C	16.0°C	0.2	0.1	11.511 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.

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July in nearby cities

Distance from Zaria

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