Climate averages 1991–2020
Kumba weather
in January.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 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 Kumba: daytime highs average 31.4°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Buea (58 km away). In January its highs average 25.9°C, 5.5°C cooler than Kumba, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Kumba ranks 5th of 24 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 30.0°C; Kumba is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 31.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 56 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
Kumba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 31.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 30 | 7.8 | 11.912 h |
| February | 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
January in nearby cities
- Buea in JanuaryCameroon · 58 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 21.6°C · 65 mm rain
- Tiko in JanuaryCameroon · 63 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 90 mm rain
- Nkongsamba in JanuaryCameroon · 65 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Douala in JanuaryCameroon · 71 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Limbe in JanuaryCameroon · 73 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 90 mm rain
- Melong in JanuaryCameroon · 79 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 18.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Edéa in JanuaryCameroon · 120 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Malabo in JanuaryEquatorial Guinea · 123 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 25.8°C · 52 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.