11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
25°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ SSW 2 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Evening
Rain showers
25°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ WSW 5 km/h
Gusts11 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 3.3 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ WSW 1 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Evening
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ N 11 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 3.9 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 2.8 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Clear sky
28°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ S 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 57 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ SW 5 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
Abuja forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Abuja climate: what a normal year looks like
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to May; the typical peak is 36 °C in March.
The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 60% of the annual total; August by itself averages 331 mm.
The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 36 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 21 °C.
From December to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
34 °C
20 °C
2 mm
Feb
35 °C
23 °C
6 mm
Mar
36 °C
25 °C
22 mm
Apr
34 °C
25 °C
59 mm
May
31 °C
23 °C
143 mm
Jun
29 °C
22 °C
209 mm
Jul
27 °C
21 °C
273 mm
Aug
27 °C
21 °C
331 mm
Sep
28 °C
21 °C
300 mm
Oct
30 °C
22 °C
149 mm
Nov
33 °C
21 °C
11 mm
Dec
33 °C
20 °C
1 mm
Whole year
31 °C
22 °C
1,500 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.06° N, 7.50° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Abuja: pollution and pollen
5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.564µg/m³
PM1089µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Abuja
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Abuja, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Abuja yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Abuja
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 07:07 Set 20:28
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Lagos); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Abuja
Curious about the weather in Abuja on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Abuja weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Abuja, FCT: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 30 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.
Expected range today: 24 °C to 34 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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