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Makurdi weather

Benue State · 390,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:01

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 9 d Moderate storm risk · Wed, Mon, Tue

35°

Clear sky

Feels like 46°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

51 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 06:13 Set 18:05 Day 11 h 52 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

32°27°

Feels like 43°

Wind ↑ SSW 8 km/h

Gusts 14 km/h

Humidity 59 %

19:00

32°

S 6

22:00

27°

SSW 8

Makurdi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Makurdi climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to June; the typical peak is 38 °C in March.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 59% of the annual total; August by itself averages 221 mm.

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 38 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	35 °C	23 °C	1 mm
Feb	37 °C	25 °C	5 mm
Mar	38 °C	27 °C	15 mm
Apr	36 °C	27 °C	46 mm
May	33 °C	25 °C	97 mm
Jun	31 °C	24 °C	131 mm
Jul	30 °C	24 °C	182 mm
Aug	29 °C	23 °C	221 mm
Sep	30 °C	24 °C	180 mm
Oct	31 °C	24 °C	94 mm
Nov	34 °C	24 °C	9 mm
Dec	35 °C	23 °C	2 mm
Whole year	33 °C	24 °C	980 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 7.73° 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 Makurdi: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.535µg/m³

PM1039µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Makurdi

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

Moon over Makurdi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:06 Set 20:21

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 Makurdi

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

Makurdi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Makurdi, Benue 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 35 °C (feels like 46 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 35 °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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