Ngaoundéré climate

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Ngaoundéré is warmest in March, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 16 °C. August is the wettest month (386 mm) and January the driest (0.00 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ngaoundéré averages 2,103 mm of rain and 326 days above 25 °C.

Cameroon · population 238,196 · 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 March 33 °C
Coldest month January 16 °C
Driest month January 0 mm
Wettest month August 386 mm
Least cloud December 42 % cloud
Hottest on record April 37 °C
Coldest on record December 10 °C

What to expectNgaoundéré through the year

Ngaoundéré has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 33 °C in March, a swing of 5.7 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 326 days a year reach 25 °C, 131 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 386 mm against 0 mm in January — 115,876 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.9 °C	under 1 mm	46 %
February	32.5 °C	2 mm	52 %
March	33.1 °C	26 mm	65 %
April	30.6 °C	165 mm	79 %
May	28.4 °C	280 mm	83 %
June	26.9 °C	324 mm	83 %
July	25.4 °C	354 mm	89 %
August	25.0 °C	386 mm	92 %
September	26.3 °C	345 mm	88 %
October	27.6 °C	202 mm	81 %
November	29.5 °C	18 mm	61 %
December	30.3 °C	under 1 mm	42 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.9 °C	16.4 °C	23.1 °C	35.2 °C	11.1 °C	31	22
February	32.5 °C	18.0 °C	24.9 °C	36.5 °C	11.9 °C	28	26
March	33.1 °C	19.3 °C	25.8 °C	36.8 °C	13.2 °C	31	29
April	30.6 °C	19.4 °C	24.1 °C	37.1 °C	15.4 °C	30	17
May	28.4 °C	18.6 °C	22.4 °C	33.1 °C	15.7 °C	30	5
June	26.9 °C	17.6 °C	21.2 °C	30.5 °C	15.2 °C	26	0
July	25.4 °C	17.1 °C	20.3 °C	30.0 °C	14.2 °C	20	0
August	25.0 °C	17.1 °C	20.1 °C	29.1 °C	14.9 °C	17	0
September	26.3 °C	17.2 °C	20.7 °C	30.4 °C	15.0 °C	24	0
October	27.6 °C	17.3 °C	21.6 °C	30.8 °C	13.8 °C	29	1
November	29.5 °C	17.1 °C	22.9 °C	33.4 °C	12.5 °C	30	11
December	30.3 °C	16.5 °C	22.9 °C	33.1 °C	10.4 °C	31	20

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	46 %	27 %	14 km/h
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	52 %	24 %	14 km/h
March	26 mm	4	12 h/day	65 %	39 %	13 km/h
April	165 mm	18	12 h/day	79 %	70 %	12 km/h
May	280 mm	27	12 h/day	83 %	84 %	9.9 km/h
June	324 mm	28	13 h/day	83 %	88 %	8.7 km/h
July	354 mm	30	13 h/day	89 %	90 %	8.3 km/h
August	386 mm	30	12 h/day	92 %	90 %	8.6 km/h
September	345 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	8.3 km/h
October	202 mm	21	12 h/day	81 %	81 %	9.8 km/h
November	18 mm	3	12 h/day	61 %	53 %	13 km/h
December	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	42 %	34 %	14 km/h

How Ngaoundéré 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
Ngaoundéré	33 °C	16 °C	2,103 mm	326
Yola · Nigeria	40 °C	20 °C	588 mm	365
Moundou · Chad	38 °C	19 °C	932 mm	364
Mubi · Nigeria	37 °C	14 °C	808 mm	359

Where Ngaoundéré ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in January	15th of 50	0.00 mm
The driest places in the world in January	15th of 50	0.00 mm
The driest places in Africa in December	47th of 50	0.4 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ngaoundéré’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ngaoundéré?

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, March is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Ngaoundéré get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 131 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 16 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ngaoundéré?

August, averaging 386 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,103 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 Ngaoundéré 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: 7.328°, 13.585° (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.