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Saminaka weather

Kaduna State · 500,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:06

Air: Very poor Heatwave risk · 14 d

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 28°C

Wind

9 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

45 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 06:15 Set 18:02 Day 11 h 46 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

26°24°

Feels like 28°

Wind ↑ ENE 9 km/h

Humidity 45 %

22:00

24°

E 6

Saminaka forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.4° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Saminaka climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 227 towns of 20,000+ people in Nigeria, Saminaka has the second lowest mean temperature.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 64% of the annual total; August by itself averages 286 mm.

Day and night differ most in January: 29 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Feb	31 °C	16 °C	1 mm
Mar	34 °C	19 °C	3 mm
Apr	35 °C	22 °C	31 mm
May	32 °C	22 °C	117 mm
Jun	29 °C	21 °C	182 mm
Jul	27 °C	20 °C	216 mm
Aug	26 °C	20 °C	286 mm
Sep	28 °C	19 °C	238 mm
Oct	29 °C	19 °C	79 mm
Nov	30 °C	16 °C	0 mm
Dec	28 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Whole year	30 °C	18 °C	1,150 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.41° N, 8.69° 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 Saminaka: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.552µg/m³

PM10101µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Saminaka

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Saminaka, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Saminaka yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Saminaka

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:59 Set 20:26

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 Saminaka

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

Saminaka weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Saminaka, Kaduna 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 26 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 33 °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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