Climate Ilorin International Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Ibadan Airport (DNIB) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	37.5	37	25	33	65	28
February	37.6	33	42	18	59	39
March	72.5	73	78	67	68	70
April	67.6		48	76	89	82
May	73.1		79	59	68	73
June	53.7		48	59	68	58
July	42.7		41	33	60	12
August	25.8		20	26	36	26
September	49.4		48	41	57	50
October	61.1		59	61	70	50
November	63.9		50	71	67	73
December	48.9		30	64	45	65
Average	55.4	49.4	47.0	55.6	63.2	52.3

7th best VFR conditions of Nigeria

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	64.8	60	63	65	83	56
February	64.9	60	64	36	89	65
March	98.5	100	96	98	97	99
April	96.4		99	84	100	100
May	95.7		95	92	96	96
June	93.1		92	96	94	94
July	88.3		89	82	89	82
August	78.7		83	64	78	74
September	81.4		84	72	94	67
October	91.6		95	88	100	85
November	94.5		93	96	97	97
December	84.4		80	91	82	90
Average	86.5	74.8	87.0	84.5	91.4	83.2

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	33.1	36	34	31	31	34
February	33.4	36	35	32	32	33
March	33.2	36	32	33	32	33
April	31.5		31	30	34	31
May	30.8		33	29	31	30
June	29.0		30	29	30	27
July	28.0		30	28	28	26
August	27.1		29	26	27	27
September	27.6		29	27	28	26
October	29.6		32	30	29	28
November	31.9		33	33	30	31
December	32.7		35	33	31	32
Average	31.1	35.7	31.7	30.0	30.1	30.1

12th highest temperature of Nigeria

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	24.9	25	22	27	25	24
February	26.8	26	25	29	28	27
March	26.0	26	24	27	27	27
April	26.1		25	25	27	27
May	25.8		25	25	27	26
June	24.4		23	25	25	25
July	24.3		24	25	24	25
August	23.7		23	23	24	24
September	23.6		23	22	25	24
October	24.4		24	24	26	25
November	25.2		25	24	26	27
December	25.3		25	24	27	26
Average	25.2	25.5	23.9	24.8	25.8	25.3

13th lowest temperature of Nigeria

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
February	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
March	0.3	0	1	0	0	0
April	1.4		2	3	1	0
May	0.6		0	2	1	0
June	5.2		8	2	0	0
July	2.7		4	0	1	0
August	4.0		4	8	6	0
September	4.0		5	1	2	7
October	1.7		1	1	0	2
November	0.0		0	0	0	0
December	0.0		0	0	0	0
Average	1.3		2.3	1.3	1.0	0.4

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	5.0	4	5	5	6	7
February	5.0	4	5	5	6	6
March	5.7	5	5	6	6	8
April	6.5		6	6	8	8
May	6.3		5	5	8	8
June	5.8		5	5	8	7
July	6.1		5	7	8	7
August	5.8		5	6	7	7
September	5.2		4	5	6	7
October	4.5		4	4	4	6
November	4.5		4	4	4	5
December	4.9		4	5	5	6
Average	5.8	4.5	4.6	5.1	6.5	6.7

12th highest wind speed of Nigeria

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	039°	049°	062°	258°	074°
February	191°	001°	105°	203°	041°
March	211°	207°	224°	219°	213°
April		212°	192°	205°	204°
May		194°	202°	205°	208°
June		223°	237°	197°	215°
July		221°	229°	230°	234°
August		218°	222°	238°	234°
September		224°	217°	209°	242°
October		195°	207°	194°	218°
November		193°	146°	231°	193°
December		039°	360°	094°	210°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.