Climate averages 1991–2020
Nkongsamba weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Nkongsamba: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 338 mm of rain on roughly 31 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 21 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Melong (19 km away). In May its highs average 26.6°C, about as warm as Nkongsamba, with 338 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Cameroon, Nkongsamba ranks 16th of 24 for the warmest May highs and joint 21st of 24 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 24 cities is 28.2°C; Nkongsamba is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 338 mm to 331 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
Nkongsamba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Melong in MayCameroon · 19 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.7°C · 338 mm rain
- Kumba in MayCameroon · 65 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.5°C · 218 mm rain
- Bafoussam in MayCameroon · 79 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 146 mm rain
- Mbouda in MayCameroon · 82 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.4°C · 217 mm rain
- Foumbot in MayCameroon · 98 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.7°C · 179 mm rain
- Douala in MayCameroon · 104 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.8°C · 297 mm rain
- Bamenda in MayCameroon · 114 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.2°C · 290 mm rain
- Tiko in MayCameroon · 117 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.5°C · 348 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.