Climate averages 1991–2020
Melong weather
in January.
A hot, moderately wet 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 Melong: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nkongsamba (19 km away). In January its highs average 28.9°C, 0.8°C cooler than Melong, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Melong ranks joint 11th of 24 for the warmest January highs and joint 16th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 30.0°C; Melong is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 106 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
Melong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 58 | 12.8 | 11.912 h |
| February | 30.0°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 106 | 15.1 | 12.012 h |
| March | 28.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 286 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 27.2°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 354 | 29.6 | 12.212 h |
| May | 26.6°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 338 | 30.6 | 12.412 h |
| June | 25.3°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 331 | 29.7 | 12.412 h |
| July | 24.4°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 366 | 30.2 | 12.412 h |
| August | 24.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 396 | 30.7 | 12.312 h |
| September | 24.9°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 396 | 29.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 418 | 31.0 | 12.012 h |
| November | 26.7°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 231 | 27.3 | 11.912 h |
| December | 28.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 63 | 14.3 | 11.812 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
- Nkongsamba in JanuaryCameroon · 19 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Bafoussam in JanuaryCameroon · 64 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 2.2 mm rain
- Mbouda in JanuaryCameroon · 65 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 16.6°C · 7.1 mm rain
- Kumba in JanuaryCameroon · 79 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 22.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Foumbot in JanuaryCameroon · 86 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 17.4°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Bamenda in JanuaryCameroon · 95 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 15.9°C · 8.5 mm rain
- Douala in JanuaryCameroon · 123 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Foumban in JanuaryCameroon · 124 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 17.6°C · 1.4 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 Melong) is explained once on the Melong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nkongsamba lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.