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Best time to visit Lagos

Month-by-month weather averages for Lagos.

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Good month
  • Best month
  • Made good or best by an event
Average daily high and low temperature, average precipitation and each month's verdict
MonthAverage daily highAverage daily lowPrecipitationVerdict
January30.1 °C / 86 °F25.2 °C / 77 °F23 mm / 0.9 inneither best nor good
February30.5 °C / 87 °F26.4 °C / 80 °F43 mm / 1.7 inneither best nor good
March30.4 °C / 87 °F26.8 °C / 80 °F79 mm / 3.1 inneither best nor good
April30.2 °C / 86 °F26.6 °C / 80 °F108 mm / 4.2 inneither best nor good
May29.6 °C / 85 °F26.1 °C / 79 °F198 mm / 7.8 inneither best nor good
June28.2 °C / 83 °F25.1 °C / 77 °F290 mm / 11.4 inneither best nor good
July27 °C / 81 °F24.6 °C / 76 °F225 mm / 8.8 inneither best nor good
August26.6 °C / 80 °F24.2 °C / 76 °F149 mm / 5.9 inneither best nor good
September27.3 °C / 81 °F24.5 °C / 76 °F213 mm / 8.4 inneither best nor good
October28.5 °C / 83 °F25.1 °C / 77 °F182 mm / 7.2 inneither best nor good
November29.6 °C / 85 °F25.9 °C / 79 °F74 mm / 2.9 inneither best nor good
December30.1 °C / 86 °F25.6 °C / 78 °F29 mm / 1.1 inneither best nor good
Good and best months depend on more than temperature, rain and events. How they are chosen

Each activity on this page has its own good and best months, rated on twenty years of daily weather records. Which measures count, and how much, depends on the activity: humidity for exploring outdoors, wind for the beach, hiking and skiing, snow for skiing alone. Between them, the activities are rated on:

  • Daytime highs
  • Night-time lows
  • How warm it feels
  • Humidity
  • How much of the day is sunny
  • Hours of daylight
  • Monthly rainfall
  • How many days it rains
  • Days of heavy rain
  • Wind
  • Snowfall and days with snow
  • Major events, such as festivals

The chart shows the good and best months for exploring outdoors.

The event icon marks a month that an event lifts to good or best, such as a festival or a natural spectacle. Choose “Weather only” in the toolbar to rate the months on weather alone.

Best months by activity

Exploring outdoors

Mild days and nights, mostly dry and bright. The default for 'when should I go'.

  1. JJanuary: neither
  2. FFebruary: neither
  3. MMarch: neither
  4. AApril: neither
  5. MMay: neither
  6. JJune: neither
  7. JJuly: neither
  8. AAugust: neither
  9. SSeptember: neither
  10. OOctober: neither
  11. NNovember: neither
  12. DDecember: neither

No month is good for this in Lagos.

Lagos is hot and humid all year, with feels-like highs in the mid-30s even in the driest months of December through February. The rains intensify from March through October, peaking with over ten heavy-rain days in June, so no month offers the mild, comfortable conditions exploring outdoors calls for.

An activity is listed only where it applies: skiing at ski destinations, beach and swimming at beach destinations. The nearest ski area is Estación de Esquí y Montaña de Sierra Nevada, 3471 km away.

Weather averages

Monthly averages over twenty years, 2006–2025. Highs, lows and precipitation are in the chart at the top.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels like (high) 35.1 °C36.3 °C36.5 °C36.3 °C35.6 °C33.4 °C31.2 °C30.4 °C32.1 °C34.4 °C36.3 °C35.9 °C
Days with heavy rain 0.1 days0.7 days1.1 days2.4 days6.2 days10.6 days6 days4.1 days6.2 days4.7 days1 days0.1 days
Time rain usually falls 3 pm3 pm3 pm2 pm2 pm2 pm1 pm1 pm2 pm2 pm2 pm3 pm
Sunshine per day 11 h11 h10.8 h10.2 h9.1 h8 h8.7 h8.9 h8.3 h9 h10.4 h10.8 h
Relative humidity 79%83%84%84%85%87%87%88%88%86%85%81%

Air quality

Averaged over a shorter period (2022–2025) than the twenty-year averages above, and not counted towards good or best months.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Air pollution (PM2.5) 2022–202552 µg/m³50.9 µg/m³19.1 µg/m³18.4 µg/m³20.2 µg/m³18.6 µg/m³15.6 µg/m³15.8 µg/m³15.8 µg/m³20.7 µg/m³24.5 µg/m³43.5 µg/m³
Air pollution (PM2.5, daily peak) 2022–202567.7 µg/m³65.7 µg/m³27.8 µg/m³29.4 µg/m³36.4 µg/m³32.9 µg/m³22.7 µg/m³22.7 µg/m³24.9 µg/m³36.3 µg/m³36 µg/m³55.3 µg/m³
  • Good 15 µg/m³ or less
  • Fair 15 to 25 µg/m³
  • Moderate 25 to 37.5 µg/m³
  • Poor 37.5 to 50 µg/m³
  • Very poor 50 to 75 µg/m³
  • Extremely poor over 75 µg/m³

Each figure is compared with the World Health Organization's guideline for a day's air, 15 µg/m³ or less, and with its interim targets above that. The words are ours: the WHO does not name its steps. The figures are modelled monthly averages, so single days can be well above them. The daily peak is the average of each day's highest hour, shaded on the same scale.

Events and seasons

What the weather records cannot show. A major event can lift a month to good or best. The warnings are there to help you plan, and never count against a month.

Reasons to go

  • Post-holiday lull

    January and December

  • Christmas and New Year celebrations

    January and December

  • Lagos City Marathon

    February

  • Valentine's Day deals

    14 February

  • Afropolitan Vibes Music Festival

    March, May, June, July, August and September

  • Easter holiday events

    March and April, dates vary from year to year

  • GTCO Food & Drink Festival

    April

  • Gidi Culture Festival

    April

  • Lagos International Jazz Festival

    April

  • Dance Gathering

    May, June, July, August and September

  • GTB Fashion Week

    October and November

  • Lagos Fashion Week

    October and November

  • ARTXLagos

    October and November

  • Mastercard Restaurant Week

    October and November

  • Lagos Book & Art Festival

    October and November

  • "Detty December" parties and diaspora return

    December

  • EatDrinkFestival

    December

Worth knowing before you go

  • Late-year price climb

    October and November

  • December price surge

    December

Other places in Nigeria

Compare places month by month on the travel calendar

Monthly averages over 2006–2025, unless stated otherwise.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC-BY 4.0), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5). City data from GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0). Air quality from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and sea temperature from Météo-France / Copernicus Marine, both via Open-Meteo.com. Coastline from Natural Earth. Ski areas from OpenSkiMap.org, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Skimap.org. World Heritage sites from Wikidata (CC0), from the World Heritage List © UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Readership from Wikimedia pageview data (CC0). Destination classification derived from English Wikivoyage, © Wikivoyage contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).