Lafiagi climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Lafiagi?

Lafiagi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.8 °C and it receives 957 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Lafiagi?

The hottest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 4 April 2017, reaching 42.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Lafiagi?

The coldest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1957, at 12.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Lafiagi?

Almost never: Lafiagi sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Lafiagi warmed?

Yes: Lafiagi warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Lafiagi?

The wettest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 2010, with 191 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Lafiagi?

The windiest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 18 March 1946, with winds reaching 23.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Lafiagi?

The warmest month in Lafiagi is March (31.0 °C on average); the coldest is August (25.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Lafiagi?

Lafiagi receives on average 957 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 133 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Lafiagi?

Lafiagi gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Lafiagi (Nigeria) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 27.8 °C and it receives 957 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is March (31.0 °C on average) and the coldest is August (25.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in September.

Lafiagi averages 0 frost days, 322 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 133 rainy days per year.

Lafiagi has warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.19 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 42.6 °C (on 4 April 2017) and the coldest 12.8 °C (on 9 January 1957).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

LafiagiKwara State

coords: 8.85°, 5.42°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthMarchColdest monthAugustWettest monthSeptemberDriest monthDecember

Mean daily temperature

27.8°C

Average daily high

33.9°C

Average daily low

23.0°C

Annual rainfall

957mm

Sunshine / day

10.2h

Mean relative humidity

64%

Average peak wind

11.2km/h

Seasonal range

5.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

322 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

133 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

37.8 °C

Average feels-like low

25.7 °C

Average peak gust

25.9 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

328 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.8 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.6 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.64 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

42.6 °C

4 April 2017

Coldest day

12.8 °C

9 January 1957

Wettest day

191 mm

13 August 2010

Windiest day

23.8 km/h

18 March 1946

Strongest gust

52.9 km/h

1 April 2007

Hottest feels-like

47.6 °C

2 April 2024

Coldest feels-like

9.8 °C

9 January 1957

Sunniest day

12.3 h

29 May 1950

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	41.9 °C9 May 2025	18.2 °C11 January 2025	29.4 °C	709 mm	346
2024	42.1 °C11 March 2024	16.7 °C22 January 2024	29.3 °C	658 mm	353
2023	40.5 °C7 April 2023	17.1 °C13 December 2023	29.1 °C	741 mm	350
2022	41.1 °C1 April 2022	16.8 °C25 December 2022	28.3 °C	773 mm	334
2021	40.7 °C10 April 2021	17.9 °C15 January 2021	28.8 °C	639 mm	344
2020	41.0 °C11 March 2020	14.2 °C3 January 2020	28.2 °C	972 mm	326
2019	41.6 °C28 March 2019	16.8 °C23 December 2019	28.4 °C	1,386 mm	337
2018	41.0 °C6 February 2018	14.9 °C6 January 2018	28.3 °C	952 mm	334
2017	42.6 °C4 April 2017	17.6 °C10 January 2017	28.8 °C	894 mm	343
2016	41.1 °C2 March 2016	17.3 °C1 January 2016	28.5 °C	1,361 mm	335
2015	40.2 °C22 April 2015	14.3 °C13 January 2015	28.4 °C	786 mm	338
2014	40.0 °C5 April 2014	17.1 °C27 December 2014	28.4 °C	1,083 mm	338
2013	40.8 °C28 February 2013	16.4 °C1 January 2013	28.5 °C	856 mm	331
2012	40.3 °C21 March 2012	16.1 °C15 January 2012	28.2 °C	1,265 mm	326
2011	40.8 °C29 March 2011	15.9 °C16 January 2011	28.3 °C	892 mm	338
2010	41.3 °C20 April 2010	16.0 °C25 December 2010	28.7 °C	1,127 mm	335
2009	40.2 °C23 March 2009	13.7 °C27 December 2009	28.5 °C	789 mm	340
2008	39.2 °C27 March 2008	15.1 °C23 January 2008	27.9 °C	1,033 mm	330
2007	41.0 °C29 March 2007	14.8 °C14 January 2007	28.1 °C	991 mm	328
2006	41.4 °C14 April 2006	14.5 °C30 December 2006	28.7 °C	900 mm	334
2005	40.7 °C5 March 2005	15.6 °C13 January 2005	28.8 °C	892 mm	330
2004	41.2 °C1 April 2004	18.5 °C15 January 2004	28.4 °C	879 mm	331
2003	40.1 °C2 April 2003	17.9 °C6 January 2003	28.5 °C	844 mm	331
2002	40.0 °C15 March 2002	16.3 °C27 December 2002	28.0 °C	1,195 mm	325
2001	40.2 °C2 April 2001	15.9 °C14 February 2001	28.0 °C	752 mm	327
2000	40.1 °C1 April 2000	17.1 °C2 February 2000	27.8 °C	1,140 mm	321
1999	40.7 °C10 March 1999	17.5 °C15 December 1999	28.0 °C	1,092 mm	303
1998	42.1 °C12 April 1998	16.6 °C17 December 1998	28.4 °C	1,045 mm	322
1997	39.4 °C10 March 1997	18.2 °C31 January 1997	27.6 °C	1,027 mm	326
1996	40.7 °C7 April 1996	17.7 °C5 January 1996	28.0 °C	1,407 mm	305
1995	40.9 °C12 April 1995	17.6 °C27 December 1995	27.8 °C	1,221 mm	324
1994	41.8 °C29 March 1994	16.1 °C18 December 1994	27.6 °C	1,267 mm	315
1993	39.9 °C19 April 1993	15.9 °C12 January 1993	27.9 °C	959 mm	330
1992	39.6 °C10 March 1992	14.6 °C6 January 1992	27.3 °C	1,068 mm	307
1991	41.0 °C26 March 1991	16.9 °C1 January 1991	27.8 °C	1,221 mm	324
1990	40.7 °C4 April 1990	18.7 °C2 January 1990	28.1 °C	1,035 mm	325
1989	40.2 °C9 April 1989	15.3 °C3 January 1989	27.4 °C	1,065 mm	316
1988	41.2 °C6 April 1988	18.5 °C24 December 1988	28.1 °C	1,168 mm	318
1987	40.4 °C3 May 1987	17.4 °C9 January 1987	28.6 °C	1,028 mm	347
1986	40.5 °C17 April 1986	17.0 °C21 December 1986	27.8 °C	989 mm	307
1985	40.6 °C12 March 1985	17.3 °C13 February 1985	27.8 °C	1,358 mm	312
1984	41.0 °C6 March 1984	17.5 °C8 February 1984	27.9 °C	920 mm	337
1983	41.3 °C27 March 1983	15.4 °C6 January 1983	28.1 °C	787 mm	326
1982	40.0 °C7 April 1982	16.1 °C6 January 1982	27.6 °C	1,011 mm	320
1981	40.5 °C17 April 1981	16.5 °C3 December 1981	27.6 °C	986 mm	323
1980	41.0 °C7 April 1980	16.0 °C27 December 1980	27.8 °C	1,382 mm	321
1979	41.3 °C21 March 1979	16.1 °C4 January 1979	27.6 °C	1,215 mm	329
1978	40.7 °C24 February 1978	16.1 °C11 January 1978	27.5 °C	1,023 mm	310
1977	40.6 °C22 April 1977	17.0 °C27 December 1977	27.9 °C	817 mm	322
1976	40.9 °C5 April 1976	16.3 °C2 December 1976	27.3 °C	949 mm	306
1975	40.1 °C20 March 1975	15.6 °C18 January 1975	27.1 °C	1,074 mm	292
1974	40.6 °C21 March 1974	15.7 °C30 December 1974	27.4 °C	976 mm	307
1973	42.2 °C20 March 1973	16.5 °C2 December 1973	28.1 °C	1,079 mm	337
1972	40.1 °C11 March 1972	16.1 °C21 November 1972	27.5 °C	1,073 mm	332
1971	42.0 °C18 March 1971	15.7 °C26 December 1971	27.5 °C	1,114 mm	309
1970	40.0 °C28 March 1970	16.1 °C13 December 1970	27.6 °C	1,058 mm	308
1969	40.4 °C7 March 1969	16.8 °C11 January 1969	27.3 °C	1,155 mm	306
1968	40.7 °C11 April 1968	15.0 °C19 January 1968	27.5 °C	1,202 mm	325
1967	41.0 °C18 April 1967	14.2 °C2 January 1967	27.5 °C	937 mm	305
1966	41.4 °C16 March 1966	14.6 °C4 January 1966	27.7 °C	866 mm	346
1965	40.0 °C14 April 1965	16.9 °C7 December 1965	27.8 °C	772 mm	334
1964	41.3 °C31 March 1964	15.2 °C13 January 1964	28.1 °C	578 mm	340
1963	40.6 °C31 March 1963	16.2 °C9 December 1963	27.6 °C	1,001 mm	338
1962	40.5 °C4 March 1962	15.0 °C8 February 1962	27.4 °C	1,014 mm	320
1961	40.4 °C23 March 1961	16.0 °C12 December 1961	27.5 °C	723 mm	321
1960	39.6 °C28 March 1960	16.7 °C4 January 1960	27.7 °C	886 mm	331
1959	40.3 °C11 April 1959	15.6 °C30 December 1959	27.8 °C	774 mm	328
1958	40.4 °C5 April 1958	16.4 °C8 January 1958	27.9 °C	556 mm	316
1957	38.1 °C17 March 1957	12.8 °C9 January 1957	26.6 °C	1,159 mm	291
1956	39.3 °C6 April 1956	15.4 °C5 January 1956	27.1 °C	780 mm	295
1955	39.4 °C25 April 1955	15.0 °C27 December 1955	26.9 °C	1,092 mm	277
1954	39.5 °C15 March 1954	16.7 °C20 January 1954	27.2 °C	752 mm	305
1953	40.0 °C29 April 1953	16.4 °C15 December 1953	27.4 °C	756 mm	314
1952	38.6 °C17 March 1952	15.6 °C1 January 1952	27.2 °C	742 mm	312
1951	39.8 °C23 April 1951	15.3 °C31 December 1951	27.1 °C	1,155 mm	311
1950	40.5 °C31 March 1950	17.4 °C23 February 1950	27.1 °C	929 mm	290
1949	39.7 °C24 March 1949	16.1 °C10 February 1949	28.1 °C	451 mm	341
1948	39.6 °C30 March 1948	15.0 °C4 February 1948	26.8 °C	821 mm	301
1947	39.9 °C17 April 1947	16.3 °C11 January 1947	27.2 °C	1,096 mm	266
1946	39.6 °C9 March 1946	14.7 °C20 January 1946	27.1 °C	647 mm	312
1945	40.0 °C7 April 1945	14.4 °C4 February 1945	26.6 °C	889 mm	301
1944	39.9 °C14 April 1944	15.5 °C7 February 1944	27.0 °C	1,023 mm	287
1943	39.5 °C1 March 1943	17.3 °C20 December 1943	27.3 °C	657 mm	305
1942	39.9 °C30 March 1942	16.3 °C21 January 1942	27.6 °C	722 mm	319
1941	40.7 °C28 March 1941	15.5 °C23 December 1941	27.7 °C	637 mm	347
1940	38.5 °C9 April 1940	17.3 °C2 December 1940	27.5 °C	581 mm	343

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

35.6 °C

+1.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

346 d/yr

+24

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

709 mm

-248 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	36.5 °C	+1.4 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Feb	38.3 °C	+1.3 °C	1 mm	-2 mm
Mar	40.2 °C	+2.2 °C	0 mm	-13 mm
Apr	39.4 °C	+2.1 °C	10 mm	-33 mm
May	36.9 °C	+2.1 °C	70 mm	-28 mm
Jun	34.3 °C	+2.1 °C	63 mm	-78 mm
Jul	31.5 °C	+1.2 °C	128 mm	-43 mm
Aug	30.7 °C	+1.0 °C	159 mm	-37 mm
Sep	32.1 °C	+1.7 °C	168 mm	-35 mm
Oct	33.6 °C	+1.5 °C	110 mm	+27 mm
Nov	37.0 °C	+2.4 °C	0 mm	-5 mm
Dec	37.5 °C	+2.6 °C	0 mm	-1 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

41.9 °C

9 May 2025

Coldest day

18.2 °C

11 Jan 2025

Wettest day

29.1 mm

21 Aug 2025

Windiest day

18.9 km/h

26 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

44.6 km/h

13 May 2025

Hottest feels-like

46.6 °C

29 Mar 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.3 °C

11 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.2 h

21 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Lafiagi?

Lafiagi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.8 °C and it receives 957 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Lafiagi?

The hottest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 4 April 2017, reaching 42.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Lafiagi?

The coldest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1957, at 12.8 °C.

Does it snow in Lafiagi?

Almost never: Lafiagi sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Lafiagi warmed?

Yes: Lafiagi warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Lafiagi?

The wettest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 2010, with 191 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Lafiagi?

The windiest day measured in Lafiagi between 1940 and 2025 was 18 March 1946, with winds reaching 23.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Lafiagi?

The warmest month in Lafiagi is March (31.0 °C on average); the coldest is August (25.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Lafiagi?

Lafiagi receives on average 957 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 133 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Lafiagi?

Lafiagi gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Lafiagi?

Yes: Lafiagi has on average 328 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Lafiagi?

In Lafiagi, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 47.6 °C on 2 April 2024, and the lowest was 9.8 °C on 9 January 1957.

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