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Ilorin weather

Kwara State · 1,080,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:53

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 14 d Moderate storm risk · Wed, Thu

32°

Clear sky

Feels like 37°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

40 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:30 Set 18:20 Day 11 h 50 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

32°28°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ ENE 6 km/h

Gusts 15 km/h

Humidity 40 %

19:00

32°

ENE 4

22:00

28°

S 6

Ilorin forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Ilorin climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to June; the typical peak is 36 °C in March.

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 36 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 22 °C.

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

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 54% of the annual total; September by itself averages 176 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	34 °C	20 °C	3 mm
Feb	36 °C	23 °C	6 mm
Mar	37 °C	24 °C	24 mm
Apr	35 °C	24 °C	55 mm
May	33 °C	24 °C	97 mm
Jun	30 °C	23 °C	128 mm
Jul	29 °C	22 °C	144 mm
Aug	28 °C	22 °C	168 mm
Sep	29 °C	22 °C	176 mm
Oct	30 °C	22 °C	92 mm
Nov	33 °C	22 °C	7 mm
Dec	34 °C	20 °C	1 mm
Whole year	32 °C	22 °C	900 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.50° N, 4.54° 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 Ilorin: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.527µg/m³

PM1032µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ilorin

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ilorin, 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 Ilorin yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ilorin

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:21 Set 20:39

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 Ilorin

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

Ilorin weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ilorin, Kwara 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 32 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 28 °C to 36 °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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