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Gboko weather

Benue State · 365,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:56

Air: Poor Hot · 7 d Moderate storm risk · Sat, Tue, Mon

34°

Clear sky

Feels like 45°C

Wind

2 km/h

Gusts

11 km/h

Humidity

53 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

9 %

Storm

Rise 06:11 Set 18:04 Day 11 h 52 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Mainly clear

35°34°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ NNE 4 km/h

Gusts 11 km/h

Humidity 39 %

Evening

Mainly clear

31°28°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ SSW 15 km/h

Gusts 28 km/h

Humidity 66 %

19:00

31°

S 5

22:00

28°

SSW 15

Gboko 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)

Gboko climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to June; the typical peak is 37 °C in March.

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 37 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 53% of the annual total; August by itself averages 204 mm.

From December to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	35 °C	22 °C	3 mm
Feb	37 °C	24 °C	8 mm
Mar	37 °C	26 °C	22 mm
Apr	35 °C	26 °C	59 mm
May	33 °C	25 °C	115 mm
Jun	30 °C	24 °C	123 mm
Jul	29 °C	23 °C	156 mm
Aug	29 °C	23 °C	204 mm
Sep	30 °C	23 °C	201 mm
Oct	31 °C	23 °C	147 mm
Nov	33 °C	23 °C	21 mm
Dec	34 °C	22 °C	3 mm
Whole year	33 °C	24 °C	1,060 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 7.32° N, 9.00° 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 Gboko: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.549µg/m³

PM1056µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Gboko

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

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

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

Moon over Gboko

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:05 Set 20:18

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 Gboko

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

Gboko weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Gboko, Benue State: 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 34 °C (feels like 45 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 35 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Makurdi 70 km 35°

Enugu 193 km 34°

Bamenda 197 km 22°

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