Yaoundé climate

Name: Yaoundé
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Yaoundé is warmest in February, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 20 °C. October is the wettest month (248 mm) and January the driest (40 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yaoundé averages 1,664 mm of rain and 337 days above 25 °C.

Cameroon · population 1,299,369 · 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 20 °C
Driest month January 40 mm
Wettest month October 248 mm
Least cloud January 77 % cloud
Hottest on record May 38 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C

What to expectYaoundé through the year

Yaoundé changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 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, 337 days a year reach 25 °C, 39 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 248 mm against 40 mm in January — 6.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.2 °C	40 mm	77 %
February	30.2 °C	57 mm	81 %
March	29.4 °C	128 mm	86 %
April	28.3 °C	172 mm	88 %
May	27.7 °C	178 mm	87 %
June	26.7 °C	161 mm	87 %
July	26.2 °C	133 mm	90 %
August	26.2 °C	129 mm	92 %
September	26.3 °C	190 mm	92 %
October	26.3 °C	248 mm	91 %
November	26.9 °C	174 mm	86 %
December	27.9 °C	54 mm	77 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.2 °C	20.8 °C	24.1 °C	37.6 °C	14.9 °C	31	9
February	30.2 °C	21.3 °C	24.6 °C	36.3 °C	18.2 °C	28	15
March	29.4 °C	21.4 °C	24.3 °C	33.6 °C	18.8 °C	31	10
April	28.3 °C	21.1 °C	23.7 °C	32.3 °C	18.6 °C	29	3
May	27.7 °C	20.9 °C	23.3 °C	37.9 °C	18.2 °C	30	1
June	26.7 °C	20.5 °C	22.6 °C	31.8 °C	17.8 °C	28	0
July	26.2 °C	20.0 °C	22.1 °C	29.7 °C	17.2 °C	25	0
August	26.2 °C	19.9 °C	22.1 °C	29.6 °C	18.4 °C	26	0
September	26.3 °C	20.2 °C	22.2 °C	29.3 °C	18.5 °C	25	0
October	26.3 °C	20.3 °C	22.3 °C	37.2 °C	17.8 °C	25	0
November	26.9 °C	20.5 °C	22.8 °C	31.6 °C	18.0 °C	28	0
December	27.9 °C	20.8 °C	23.5 °C	31.2 °C	16.0 °C	30	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	8	12 h/day	77 %	77 %	12 km/h
February	57 mm	10	12 h/day	81 %	77 %	13 km/h
March	128 mm	20	12 h/day	86 %	82 %	12 km/h
April	172 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	10 km/h
May	178 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	9.4 km/h
June	161 mm	24	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	10 km/h
July	133 mm	22	12 h/day	90 %	86 %	12 km/h
August	129 mm	23	12 h/day	92 %	86 %	12 km/h
September	190 mm	26	12 h/day	92 %	88 %	12 km/h
October	248 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	90 %	9.9 km/h
November	174 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	88 %	10.0 km/h
December	54 mm	10	12 h/day	77 %	82 %	11 km/h

How Yaoundé 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
Yaoundé	30 °C	20 °C	1,664 mm	337
Douala · Cameroon	30 °C	23 °C	2,930 mm	356
Nkongsamba · Cameroon	29 °C	19 °C	3,248 mm	233
Bafoussam · Cameroon	30 °C	15 °C	1,429 mm	167
Kumba · Cameroon	32 °C	21 °C	2,540 mm	339

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yaoundé’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yaoundé?

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 Yaoundé get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 39 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Yaoundé?

October, averaging 248 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is January with 40 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,664 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 Yaoundé 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.