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Kano State · 4,910,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:44

Air: Extremely poor Heatwave risk · 10 d

36°

Clear sky

Feels like 37°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

19 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

19 %

Storm

Rise 06:17 Set 18:01 Day 11 h 43 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

30°29°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ NE 9 km/h

Humidity 32 %

19:00

30°

NE 8

22:00

29°

N 9

Kano forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.5° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Kano climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 80% of the annual total; August by itself averages 248 mm.

Day and night differ most in March: 36 °C in the afternoon against 19 °C before dawn, a 17 °C swing.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in 9 months of the year; the typical peak is 39 °C in April.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 37 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (34 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	13 °C	0 mm
Feb	32 °C	16 °C	0 mm
Mar	36 °C	19 °C	0 mm
Apr	39 °C	24 °C	4 mm
May	38 °C	25 °C	35 mm
Jun	34 °C	25 °C	75 mm
Jul	31 °C	23 °C	170 mm
Aug	30 °C	22 °C	248 mm
Sep	31 °C	23 °C	122 mm
Oct	34 °C	21 °C	24 mm
Nov	33 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Dec	29 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Whole year	33 °C	20 °C	680 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.00° N, 8.52° 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 Kano: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.5235µg/m³

PM10278µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kano

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

Moon over Kano

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:56 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 Kano

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

Kano weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kano, Kano 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 36 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 36 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations