Benin City
City in Nigeria: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
New Benin Market, Benin City: Fidelis ogunseri ocsfilms, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Benin City is a city in Nigeria, in Edo State. About 1.8 million people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of Nigeria in our atlas.
It lies at 6.34° N, 5.63° E, about 88 m (289 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Lagos time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Benin City. Green dots: other major cities of Nigeria. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Benin City has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 19°C (67°F). Around 1,728 mm (68 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Sep.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in NigeriaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Onitsha · 130 km
- Enugu · 207 km
- Ibadan · 222 km
- Port Harcourt · 231 km
- Aba · 236 km
- Lagos · 246 km
- Ilorin · 268 km
- Abuja · 366 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2347283 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q320704 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- New Benin Market, Benin City: Fidelis ogunseri ocsfilms, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Benin wallsss: Guillermo Carvajal, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City Edo State 03: Ei'eke, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MOWAA June Site Visit Press Images B 03: KathleenFowlds, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sectional View at Ogba Zoo: Omorodion1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- This is the statue of His Royal Imperial Majesty, The late Oba Akenzua II of Benin Kingdom. I was on a road trip for work and I stopped by for pictures: Ybaremu, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
