Climate averages 1991–2020

Bata weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 164 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Bata: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 164 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kribi (120 km away). In January its highs average 27.9°C, 0.8°C cooler than Bata, with 96 mm of rain.

Among the 3 cities listed in Equatorial Guinea, Bata ranks 1st of 3 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 3 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 3 cities is 28.4°C; Bata is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 164 mm to 169 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Bata climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bata, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.6°C23.7°C	23.7°C	164	28.2	12.012 h
February	29.2°C24.0°C	24.0°C	169	25.9	12.112 h
March	29.4°C24.2°C	24.2°C	236	28.6	12.112 h
April	29.3°C24.1°C	24.1°C	256	28.1	12.212 h
May	28.7°C23.9°C	23.9°C	265	29.5	12.212 h
June	27.5°C23.4°C	23.4°C	179	22.4	12.212 h
July	26.8°C22.8°C	22.8°C	110	17.2	12.212 h
August	26.8°C22.7°C	22.7°C	96	19.7	12.212 h
September	27.1°C22.9°C	22.9°C	245	27.6	12.112 h
October	27.5°C23.0°C	23.0°C	335	30.7	12.112 h
November	28.0°C23.1°C	23.1°C	325	29.8	12.012 h
December	28.3°C23.4°C	23.4°C	213	29.7	12.012 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

Distance from Bata

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bata) is explained once on the Bata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.