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Lagos · 15,388,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:44

Raining now Air: Fair Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

29°

Rain showers

Feels like 42°C

Wind

14 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

82 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Moderate

Rise 06:32 Set 18:27 Day 11 h 54 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ SSW 22 km/h

Humidity 82 %

💧 0.9 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

29°

0.5mm

SSW 14

22:00

28°

0.4mm

SSW 22

Lagos 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)

Lagos climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 26 °C in August to 30 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 24 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,720 mm of rain — more than 82% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 29 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 45 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	25 °C	38 mm
Feb	30 °C	26 °C	53 mm
Mar	30 °C	27 °C	98 mm
Apr	30 °C	26 °C	137 mm
May	29 °C	26 °C	222 mm
Jun	28 °C	25 °C	296 mm
Jul	27 °C	24 °C	218 mm
Aug	26 °C	24 °C	147 mm
Sep	27 °C	24 °C	198 mm
Oct	28 °C	25 °C	187 mm
Nov	29 °C	25 °C	90 mm
Dec	30 °C	25 °C	41 mm
Whole year	29 °C	25 °C	1,720 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.45° N, 3.39° 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 Lagos: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.516µg/m³

PM1019µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lagos

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

Moon over Lagos

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:30 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 Lagos

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

Lagos weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lagos, Lagos: 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 29 °C (feels like 42 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 30 °C and around 1 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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