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Benin City weather

Edo State · 1,782,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:14

Air: Moderate Hot · 4 d High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

27°

Rain showers

Feels like 40°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

87 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

High

Rise 06:23 Set 18:18 Day 11 h 54 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

27°25°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ SSW 6 km/h

Gusts 19 km/h

Humidity 87 %

💧 2.3 mm

⚡ storm

22:00

25°

0.1mm

SSW 4

Benin City forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Benin City climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 2,400 mm of rain — more than 93% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 22 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to May; the typical peak is 33 °C in February.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	33 °C	22 °C	40 mm
Feb	33 °C	24 °C	68 mm
Mar	32 °C	24 °C	154 mm
Apr	31 °C	24 °C	218 mm
May	31 °C	24 °C	273 mm
Jun	29 °C	23 °C	310 mm
Jul	28 °C	22 °C	310 mm
Aug	28 °C	22 °C	281 mm
Sep	28 °C	23 °C	325 mm
Oct	30 °C	23 °C	277 mm
Nov	31 °C	23 °C	105 mm
Dec	32 °C	22 °C	36 mm
Whole year	30 °C	23 °C	2,400 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.34° N, 5.63° 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 Benin City: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.523µg/m³

PM1026µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Benin City

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Benin City, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Benin City yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Benin City

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:21 Set 20:30

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Lagos); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Benin City

Curious about the weather in Benin City on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Benin City weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Benin City, Edo State: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 27 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 34 °C and around 2 mm of rain; 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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations