Climate averages 1991–2020
Kumba weather
in February.
A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Kumba: daytime highs average 31.9°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Buea (58 km away). In February its highs average 26.3°C, 5.6°C cooler than Kumba, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Kumba ranks 7th of 24 for the warmest February highs and 14th of 24 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 24 cities is 30.9°C; Kumba is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 56 mm to 167 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Kumba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 30 | 7.8 | 11.912 h |
| February, selected | 31.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 56 | 11.3 | 12.012 h |
| March | 30.5°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 167 | 24.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 221 | 28.2 | 12.212 h |
| May | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 218 | 29.3 | 12.312 h |
| June | 27.1°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 289 | 29.3 | 12.412 h |
| July | 26.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 375 | 29.8 | 12.412 h |
| August | 26.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 408 | 29.9 | 12.312 h |
| September | 26.8°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 347 | 29.6 | 12.112 h |
| October | 27.4°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 323 | 30.8 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 178 | 25.7 | 11.912 h |
| December | 29.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 40 | 9.5 | 11.912 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
February in nearby cities
- Buea in FebruaryCameroon · 58 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 22.0°C · 101 mm rain
- Tiko in FebruaryCameroon · 63 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 119 mm rain
- Nkongsamba in FebruaryCameroon · 65 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 19.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Douala in FebruaryCameroon · 71 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 98 mm rain
- Limbe in FebruaryCameroon · 73 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Melong in FebruaryCameroon · 79 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 19.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Edéa in FebruaryCameroon · 120 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Malabo in FebruaryEquatorial Guinea · 123 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 26.1°C · 73 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 Kumba) is explained once on the Kumba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.