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Zaria weather

Kaduna State · 980,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:25

Air: Extremely poor Heatwave risk · 15 d

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 26°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

21 km/h

Humidity

24 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:20 Set 18:05 Day 11 h 45 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

26°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ NE 11 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 49 %

22:00

26°

NE 11

Zaria forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.7° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Zaria climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 68% of the annual total; August by itself averages 243 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in 7 months of the year; the typical peak is 37 °C in April.

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

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	15 °C	0 mm
Feb	32 °C	18 °C	1 mm
Mar	35 °C	21 °C	2 mm
Apr	37 °C	24 °C	19 mm
May	34 °C	24 °C	79 mm
Jun	30 °C	22 °C	114 mm
Jul	28 °C	21 °C	161 mm
Aug	27 °C	21 °C	243 mm
Sep	29 °C	21 °C	172 mm
Oct	30 °C	20 °C	54 mm
Nov	31 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Dec	29 °C	16 °C	0 mm
Whole year	31 °C	20 °C	840 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.11° N, 7.72° 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 Zaria: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.5122µg/m³

PM10218µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Zaria

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

Moon over Zaria

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:02 Set 20:32

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 Zaria

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

Zaria weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Zaria, 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 26 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 34 °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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