Climate guideThirty-year normals for Bafang
Bafang climate by month
Tropical monsoon · AmBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean21°day and night
Seasonal swing2°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation3,423 mm245 wet days a year
5.16° N, 10.18° EElevation 1,179 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goBafang · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low24° / 17°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Bafang has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 28° and nights 16°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 16°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 3,423 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (522 mm, 30 wet days) and December the driest (31 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 37% in December to 75% in August.
Compared with Yaoundé, the capital, Bafang is 1.8° cooler on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · February
- Coldest nights
- 15° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- December · 37% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 50 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 27° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° |
| Average low | 15° | 16° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 28 mm | 61 mm | 197 mm | 308 mm | 365 mm | 407 mm | 451 mm | 522 mm | 531 mm | 410 mm | 112 mm | 31 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.5 | 7 | 17.4 | 26.9 | 29.1 | 28.3 | 29.9 | 30.2 | 29.8 | 30.1 | 12.4 | 1.7 |
| Cloud cover | 42% | 45% | 63% | 73% | 70% | 66% | 72% | 75% | 72% | 66% | 53% | 37% |
| Daylight | 11h 51 | 11h 58 | 12h 05 | 12h 14 | 12h 21 | 12h 25 | 12h 24 | 12h 17 | 12h 09 | 12h 01 | 11h 53 | 11h 50 |
| Month score | 80 | 65 | 46 | 47 | 50 | 52 | 50 | 48 | 50 | 52 | 61 | 88 |
ivMonth by month
Bafang in every month
January80
27° / 15°
28 mm · 2.5 wet days
February65
28° / 16°
61 mm · 7 wet days
March46
27° / 17°
197 mm · 17.4 wet days
April47
26° / 17°
308 mm · 26.9 wet days
May50
25° / 17°
365 mm · 29.1 wet days
June52
23° / 17°
407 mm · 28.3 wet days
July50
22° / 16°
451 mm · 29.9 wet days
August48
23° / 17°
522 mm · 30.2 wet days
September50
23° / 17°
531 mm · 29.8 wet days
October52
24° / 17°
410 mm · 30.1 wet days
November61
25° / 16°
112 mm · 12.4 wet days
December88
26° / 15°
31 mm · 1.7 wet days