Climate
Kaduna logs 223 hot days a year to Kano's 288 — Kaduna wins by 65. Kano also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 2.
Kaduna
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Kano
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Kaduna averages 59.0 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Kano's 58.8 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Kano breathes ~0% cleaner air (0.1 µg/m³ lower).
Kaduna
Kano
PM2.5 annual average
WHO classification
City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Kaduna (1.9M) and Kano (5.1M) are 2.6x in population — Kano is the larger metro, Kaduna the smaller; on land area Kano spans roughly 1.4x more ground.
Kano is roughly 1.9x the scale of Kaduna
Combined population & area comparison
KanoKadunaCity Scale Rankings
Kano5.1M2.6xKaduna1.9M1xKano419 km²1.4xKaduna304 km²1xKaduna
Kano
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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