Lagos
NigeriaAw
📷 Ernestblinqz· CC BY-SA 4.0Eko o ni baje | 'Lagos will not spoil' (Yoruba saying)
About
Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan port city in southwestern Nigeria. As of November 2025, the size of the city's population has been estimated to be between 17 and 21 million residents, making Lagos the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lagos, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Lagos
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
29° / 26°
4.6 mm
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
30° / 26°
1.2 mm
UV High
Sun
Showers
29° / 26°
4.5 mm
UV High
Mon
Showers
30° / 26°
9.5 mm
UV High
Tue
Showers
27° / 24°
22.3 mm
UV High
Wed
Showers
28°
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 24°
Typical high / low
6 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.4h
06:30 – 18:54local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Lagos
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) at 16 km.
Getting around Lagos
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Goverment of Nigeria.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.