Climate averages 1991–2020
Ébolowa weather
in January.
A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Ébolowa: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mbalmayo (79 km away). In January its highs average 29.5°C, 0.6°C warmer than Ébolowa, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Ébolowa ranks 18th of 24 for the warmest January highs and joint 20th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 30.0°C; Ébolowa is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 88 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Ébolowa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.0°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 69 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| February | 29.2°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 88 | 15.3 | 12.012 h |
| March | 29.0°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 183 | 24.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.7°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 207 | 26.3 | 12.212 h |
| May | 28.3°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 199 | 26.8 | 12.212 h |
| June | 27.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 184 | 25.8 | 12.312 h |
| July | 26.9°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 156 | 24.6 | 12.312 h |
| August | 26.8°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 151 | 25.0 | 12.212 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 241 | 28.3 | 12.112 h |
| October | 27.0°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 285 | 29.5 | 12.112 h |
| November | 27.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 200 | 24.3 | 12.012 h |
| December | 28.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 85 | 14.8 | 12.012 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Mbalmayo in JanuaryCameroon · 79 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Sangmélima in JanuaryCameroon · 93 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 20.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Yaoundé in JanuaryCameroon · 115 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.0°C · 40 mm rain
- Kribi in JanuaryCameroon · 138 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 24.7°C · 96 mm rain
- Ciudad de la Paz in JanuaryEquatorial Guinea · 150 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.2°C · 138 mm rain
- Edéa in JanuaryCameroon · 151 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Oyem in JanuaryGabon · 152 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.3°C · 84 mm rain
- Bata in JanuaryEquatorial Guinea · 192 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.7°C · 164 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ébolowa) is explained once on the Ébolowa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.