Climate averages 1991–2020
Nkongsamba 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 Nkongsamba: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 19.1°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 Melong (19 km away). In January its highs average 29.7°C, 0.8°C warmer than Nkongsamba, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Nkongsamba ranks joint 19th 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; Nkongsamba is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 29.4°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
Nkongsamba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.9°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 58 | 12.8 | 11.912 h |
| February | 29.4°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 106 | 15.1 | 12.012 h |
| March | 28.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 286 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 27.5°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 354 | 29.6 | 12.212 h |
| May | 26.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 338 | 30.6 | 12.312 h |
| June | 25.6°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 331 | 29.7 | 12.412 h |
| July | 24.8°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 366 | 30.2 | 12.412 h |
| August | 24.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 396 | 30.7 | 12.312 h |
| September | 25.4°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 396 | 29.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 418 | 31.0 | 12.012 h |
| November | 26.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 231 | 27.3 | 11.912 h |
| December | 27.5°C19.2°C | 19.2°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
- Melong in JanuaryCameroon · 19 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 18.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Kumba in JanuaryCameroon · 65 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 22.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Bafoussam in JanuaryCameroon · 79 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 2.2 mm rain
- Mbouda in JanuaryCameroon · 82 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 16.6°C · 7.1 mm rain
- Foumbot in JanuaryCameroon · 98 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 17.4°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Douala in JanuaryCameroon · 104 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Bamenda in JanuaryCameroon · 114 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 15.9°C · 8.5 mm rain
- Tiko in JanuaryCameroon · 117 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 90 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 Nkongsamba) is explained once on the Nkongsamba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Melong lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.