Climate averages 1991–2020
Kumba weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Kumba: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 22.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 218 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Buea (58 km away). In May its highs average 25.6°C, 2.9°C cooler than Kumba, with 325 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Kumba ranks 7th of 24 for the warmest May highs and 13th of 24 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 24 cities is 28.2°C; Kumba is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 218 mm to 289 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Buea in MayCameroon · 58 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 22.0°C · 325 mm rain
- Tiko in MayCameroon · 63 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.5°C · 348 mm rain
- Nkongsamba in MayCameroon · 65 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.6°C · 338 mm rain
- Douala in MayCameroon · 71 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.8°C · 297 mm rain
- Limbe in MayCameroon · 73 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 24.7°C · 348 mm rain
- Melong in MayCameroon · 79 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.7°C · 338 mm rain
- Edéa in MayCameroon · 120 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.0°C · 258 mm rain
- Malabo in MayEquatorial Guinea · 123 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 25.7°C · 273 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.