11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ ESE 23 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 46 %
Evening
Rain showers
29°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ E 10 km/h
Humidity 29 %
💧 0.3 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ N 8 km/h
Humidity 39 %
Evening
Mainly clear
30°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ NNE 16 km/h
Gusts35 km/h
Humidity 16 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
27°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Gusts39 km/h
Humidity 38 %
Evening
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ N 18 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 16 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NNE 14 km/h
Gusts45 km/h
Humidity 35 %
Maiduguri forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Maiduguri climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 83% of the annual total; August by itself averages 189 mm.
Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — January, the mildest, still averages 31 °C.
Day and night differ most in February: 34 °C in the afternoon against 17 °C before dawn, a 17 °C swing.
From November to April, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 39 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (35 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
31 °C
14 °C
0 mm
Feb
34 °C
17 °C
0 mm
Mar
38 °C
22 °C
0 mm
Apr
40 °C
25 °C
4 mm
May
39 °C
27 °C
22 mm
Jun
36 °C
26 °C
36 mm
Jul
33 °C
24 °C
104 mm
Aug
31 °C
23 °C
189 mm
Sep
33 °C
24 °C
82 mm
Oct
35 °C
23 °C
17 mm
Nov
35 °C
19 °C
0 mm
Dec
31 °C
15 °C
0 mm
Whole year
34 °C
22 °C
450 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.85° N, 13.16° 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 Maiduguri: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.525µg/m³
PM1042µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Maiduguri
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Maiduguri, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Maiduguri yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Maiduguri
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:37 Set 20:11
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Lagos); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Maiduguri
Curious about the weather in Maiduguri on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Maiduguri weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Maiduguri, Borno State: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 29 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 23 °C to 37 °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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