Climate averages 1991–2020
Melong weather
in March.
A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Melong: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 19.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 286 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nkongsamba (19 km away). In March its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Melong, with 286 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Melong ranks joint 21st of 24 for the warmest March highs and joint 23rd of 24 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 24 cities is 30.4°C; Melong is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 286 mm to 354 mm.
The annual picture
March 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 | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Nkongsamba in MarchCameroon · 19 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 286 mm rain
- Bafoussam in MarchCameroon · 64 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 17.6°C · 39 mm rain
- Mbouda in MarchCameroon · 65 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 18.1°C · 104 mm rain
- Kumba in MarchCameroon · 79 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 22.8°C · 167 mm rain
- Foumbot in MarchCameroon · 86 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 57 mm rain
- Bamenda in MarchCameroon · 95 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 17.2°C · 129 mm rain
- Douala in MarchCameroon · 123 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.2°C · 221 mm rain
- Foumban in MarchCameroon · 124 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 19.6°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 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.