Kumba climate

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Kumba is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 21 °C. August is the wettest month (416 mm) and January the driest (30 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kumba averages 2,540 mm of rain and 339 days above 25 °C.

Cameroon · population 225,046 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month July 21 °C
Driest month January 30 mm
Wettest month August 416 mm
Least cloud December 64 % cloud
Hottest on record February 37 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C

What to expectKumba through the year

Kumba has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in July to 32 °C in February, a swing of 3.3 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 339 days a year reach 25 °C, 107 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 416 mm against 30 mm in January — 14 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.5 °C	30 mm	66 %
February	32.0 °C	53 mm	72 %
March	30.7 °C	155 mm	84 %
April	29.5 °C	204 mm	89 %
May	28.7 °C	208 mm	90 %
June	27.3 °C	272 mm	88 %
July	26.4 °C	348 mm	89 %
August	26.3 °C	416 mm	91 %
September	26.9 °C	339 mm	91 %
October	27.5 °C	310 mm	90 %
November	28.6 °C	165 mm	82 %
December	30.0 °C	39 mm	64 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.5 °C	22.2 °C	26.0 °C	35.9 °C	17.9 °C	31	26
February	32.0 °C	22.8 °C	26.4 °C	37.1 °C	19.5 °C	28	24
March	30.7 °C	22.9 °C	25.8 °C	36.0 °C	20.7 °C	31	20
April	29.5 °C	22.7 °C	25.2 °C	34.1 °C	20.7 °C	30	12
May	28.7 °C	22.5 °C	24.8 °C	32.8 °C	20.3 °C	30	6
June	27.3 °C	21.8 °C	23.8 °C	31.8 °C	19.9 °C	27	1
July	26.4 °C	21.3 °C	23.1 °C	30.7 °C	18.8 °C	24	0
August	26.3 °C	21.3 °C	23.0 °C	31.2 °C	19.7 °C	23	0
September	26.9 °C	21.5 °C	23.4 °C	33.3 °C	19.6 °C	25	0
October	27.5 °C	21.6 °C	23.8 °C	31.1 °C	19.3 °C	29	1
November	28.6 °C	21.9 °C	24.4 °C	31.8 °C	20.0 °C	30	2
December	30.0 °C	22.1 °C	25.3 °C	34.7 °C	19.5 °C	31	14

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	30 mm	7	12 h/day	66 %	78 %	7.8 km/h
February	53 mm	11	12 h/day	72 %	79 %	8.2 km/h
March	155 mm	24	12 h/day	84 %	85 %	7.4 km/h
April	204 mm	27	12 h/day	89 %	89 %	6.8 km/h
May	208 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	6.7 km/h
June	272 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	92 %	6.4 km/h
July	348 mm	30	12 h/day	89 %	92 %	7.0 km/h
August	416 mm	30	12 h/day	91 %	92 %	7.4 km/h
September	339 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	92 %	7.0 km/h
October	310 mm	30	12 h/day	90 %	92 %	6.6 km/h
November	165 mm	24	12 h/day	82 %	90 %	6.4 km/h
December	39 mm	9	12 h/day	64 %	84 %	6.8 km/h

How Kumba 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
Kumba	32 °C	21 °C	2,540 mm	339
Nkongsamba · Cameroon	29 °C	19 °C	3,248 mm	233
Douala · Cameroon	30 °C	23 °C	2,930 mm	356
Malabo · Equatorial Guinea	29 °C	24 °C	2,926 mm	363
Calabar · Nigeria	32 °C	22 °C	3,124 mm	356
Bafoussam · Cameroon	30 °C	15 °C	1,429 mm	167
Bamenda · Cameroon	31 °C	15 °C	2,493 mm	231

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kumba’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kumba?

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 Kumba get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 107 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kumba?

August, averaging 416 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 30 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,540 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 Kumba 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
Data point: 4.636°, 9.447° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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.