Douala climate

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Douala is warmest in February, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. July is the wettest month (345 mm) and January the driest (64 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Douala averages 2,930 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

Cameroon · population 1,338,082 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month February 30 °C
Coldest month August 23 °C
Driest month January 64 mm
Wettest month July 345 mm
Least cloud December 68 % cloud
Hottest on record March 36 °C
Coldest on record September 21 °C

What to expectDouala through the year

Douala changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 65 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 345 mm against 64 mm in January — 5.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.8 °C	64 mm	69 %
February	30.0 °C	93 mm	73 %
March	29.8 °C	209 mm	82 %
April	29.5 °C	272 mm	86 %
May	29.0 °C	286 mm	86 %
June	27.6 °C	305 mm	84 %
July	26.7 °C	345 mm	87 %
August	26.7 °C	339 mm	89 %
September	27.3 °C	340 mm	88 %
October	27.9 °C	343 mm	87 %
November	28.6 °C	244 mm	81 %
December	29.3 °C	91 mm	68 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.8 °C	23.9 °C	26.4 °C	34.3 °C	21.6 °C	31	11
February	30.0 °C	24.3 °C	26.7 °C	33.1 °C	22.3 °C	28	14
March	29.8 °C	24.2 °C	26.6 °C	35.9 °C	22.3 °C	31	13
April	29.5 °C	24.1 °C	26.4 °C	33.7 °C	22.2 °C	30	10
May	29.0 °C	23.8 °C	26.0 °C	32.6 °C	22.0 °C	31	6
June	27.6 °C	23.1 °C	25.0 °C	31.0 °C	21.0 °C	30	0
July	26.7 °C	22.6 °C	24.3 °C	30.1 °C	20.7 °C	28	0
August	26.7 °C	22.6 °C	24.2 °C	34.4 °C	20.8 °C	27	0
September	27.3 °C	22.6 °C	24.6 °C	32.4 °C	20.5 °C	29	0
October	27.9 °C	22.8 °C	25.0 °C	33.0 °C	20.5 °C	30	2
November	28.6 °C	23.3 °C	25.6 °C	33.3 °C	21.4 °C	30	2
December	29.3 °C	23.8 °C	26.2 °C	32.2 °C	21.9 °C	31	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	64 mm	18	12 h/day	69 %	85 %	12 km/h
February	93 mm	20	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	13 km/h
March	209 mm	27	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	12 km/h
April	272 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	88 %	9.7 km/h
May	286 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	9.3 km/h
June	305 mm	29	12 h/day	84 %	90 %	9.9 km/h
July	345 mm	29	12 h/day	87 %	90 %	11 km/h
August	339 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	11 km/h
September	340 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	10 km/h
October	343 mm	30	12 h/day	87 %	90 %	9.4 km/h
November	244 mm	28	12 h/day	81 %	89 %	9.6 km/h
December	91 mm	22	12 h/day	68 %	87 %	11 km/h

How Douala compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Douala	30 °C	23 °C	2,930 mm	356
Kumba · Cameroon	32 °C	21 °C	2,540 mm	339
Nkongsamba · Cameroon	29 °C	19 °C	3,248 mm	233
Malabo · Equatorial Guinea	29 °C	24 °C	2,926 mm	363
Bafoussam · Cameroon	30 °C	15 °C	1,429 mm	167
Calabar · Nigeria	32 °C	22 °C	3,124 mm	356
Yaoundé · Cameroon	30 °C	20 °C	1,664 mm	337

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Douala.

QuestionsCommon questions about Douala’s climate

When is the best time to visit Douala?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, February is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Douala get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 65 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Douala?

July, averaging 345 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is January with 64 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,930 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Douala rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.