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Sokoto · 1,040,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:59

Air: Extremely poor Heatwave risk · 15 d

31°

Clear sky

Feels like 34°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

11 km/h

Humidity

36 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:31 Set 18:13 Day 11 h 41 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

31°29°

Feels like 34°

Wind ↑ NE 10 km/h

Humidity 36 %

19:00

31°

NE 8

22:00

29°

ENE 10

Sokoto 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)

Sokoto climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 81% of the annual total; August by itself averages 174 mm.

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — August, the mildest, still averages 31 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 410 mm of rain — less than 91% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in November: 35 °C in the afternoon against 21 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 39 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (36 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Feb	35 °C	21 °C	0 mm
Mar	39 °C	25 °C	1 mm
Apr	41 °C	28 °C	3 mm
May	39 °C	29 °C	22 mm
Jun	36 °C	27 °C	36 mm
Jul	33 °C	25 °C	87 mm
Aug	31 °C	24 °C	174 mm
Sep	33 °C	25 °C	70 mm
Oct	36 °C	24 °C	14 mm
Nov	35 °C	21 °C	0 mm
Dec	32 °C	19 °C	0 mm
Whole year	35 °C	24 °C	410 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.06° N, 5.24° 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 Sokoto: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.5165µg/m³

PM10228µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sokoto

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

Moon over Sokoto

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:07 Set 20:46

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 Sokoto

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

Sokoto weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sokoto, Sokoto: 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 31 °C (feels like 34 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 29 °C to 38 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations