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Minna weather

Niger State · 425,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:44

Air: Very poor Heatwave risk · 10 d Low storm risk · Tue

34°

Mainly clear

Feels like 44°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

49 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Rise 06:23 Set 18:11 Day 11 h 48 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

31°27°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ WSW 4 km/h

Humidity 61 %

19:00

31°

WSW 3

22:00

27°

SE 4

Minna forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.9° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Minna climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 67% of the annual total; August by itself averages 298 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to June; the typical peak is 37 °C in March.

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

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 37 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 22 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 36 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	34 °C	22 °C	1 mm
Feb	36 °C	24 °C	2 mm
Mar	37 °C	26 °C	9 mm
Apr	36 °C	27 °C	35 mm
May	33 °C	25 °C	93 mm
Jun	30 °C	24 °C	133 mm
Jul	29 °C	23 °C	224 mm
Aug	28 °C	22 °C	298 mm
Sep	29 °C	23 °C	254 mm
Oct	31 °C	23 °C	106 mm
Nov	34 °C	22 °C	4 mm
Dec	34 °C	22 °C	0 mm
Whole year	33 °C	23 °C	1,160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.62° N, 6.55° 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 Minna: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.554µg/m³

PM1071µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Minna

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

Moon over Minna

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:10 Set 20:33

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 Minna

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

Minna weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Minna, Niger 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 34 °C (feels like 44 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 36 °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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