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Jos weather

Plateau State · 1,040,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:44

Air: Very poor Hot · 3 d

31°

Clear sky

Feels like 32°C

Wind

18 km/h

Gusts

18 km/h

Humidity

23 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 06:14 Set 18:02 Day 11 h 47 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

25°23°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ ENE 8 km/h

Humidity 40 %

19:00

25°

ENE 8

22:00

23°

S 4

Jos forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Jos climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 227 towns of 20,000+ people in Nigeria, Jos has the lowest mean temperature.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 61% of the annual total; August by itself averages 334 mm.

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

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 13 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	13 °C	0 mm
Feb	30 °C	16 °C	2 mm
Mar	32 °C	18 °C	7 mm
Apr	32 °C	21 °C	55 mm
May	29 °C	20 °C	176 mm
Jun	27 °C	19 °C	262 mm
Jul	25 °C	18 °C	294 mm
Aug	25 °C	18 °C	334 mm
Sep	27 °C	18 °C	245 mm
Oct	28 °C	18 °C	76 mm
Nov	29 °C	16 °C	1 mm
Dec	27 °C	13 °C	0 mm
Whole year	28 °C	17 °C	1,450 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.93° N, 8.89° 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 Jos: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.557µg/m³

PM10111µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Jos

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

Moon over Jos

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:60 Set 20:24

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 Jos

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

Jos weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Jos, Plateau 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 31 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 18 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; 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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