Climate averages 1991–2020

Libreville weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th 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 23.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 250 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Libreville: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 250 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Owendo (13 km away). In January its highs average 29.2°C, 0.6°C warmer than Libreville, with 247 mm of rain.

Among the 6 cities listed in Gabon, Libreville ranks 5th of 6 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 6 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 6 cities is 29.2°C; Libreville is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 250 mm to 218 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

Libreville climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Libreville, 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°C23.9°C	23.9°C	250	29.1	12.112 h
February	29.0°C24.3°C	24.3°C	218	25.9	12.112 h
March	29.4°C24.5°C	24.5°C	270	28.8	12.112 h
April	29.3°C24.6°C	24.6°C	261	27.4	12.112 h
May	28.8°C24.4°C	24.4°C	244	26.6	12.112 h
June	27.5°C23.3°C	23.3°C	82	12.4	12.112 h
July	27.1°C22.5°C	22.5°C	33	6.8	12.112 h
August	27.4°C22.8°C	22.8°C	35	8.2	12.112 h
September	27.6°C23.4°C	23.4°C	151	21.4	12.112 h
October	27.7°C23.6°C	23.6°C	358	30.2	12.112 h
November	28.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	393	29.6	12.112 h
December	28.4°C23.7°C	23.7°C	316	30.2	12.112 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 Libreville

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 Libreville) is explained once on the Libreville year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.