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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Garoua
Garoua climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,000 mm147 wet days a year
9.30° N, 13.40° EElevation 199 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goGaroua · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Garoua has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 40° and nights 27°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 7°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,000 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (258 mm, 29 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in December to 60% in August.
Compared with Yaoundé, the capital, Garoua is 11.3° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 18° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 19% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 35 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 | 34° | 37° | 39° | 40° | 36° | 34° | 31° | 30° | 31° | 33° | 36° | 34° |
| Average low | 18° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 21° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 37 mm | 112 mm | 146 mm | 196 mm | 258 mm | 180 mm | 67 mm | 2 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 8.4 | 17.7 | 23.2 | 27.4 | 29.1 | 25.6 | 14 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 24% | 35% | 43% | 46% | 46% | 57% | 60% | 53% | 41% | 27% | 19% |
| Daylight | 11h 38 | 11h 50 | 12h 04 | 12h 20 | 12h 33 | 12h 40 | 12h 37 | 12h 26 | 12h 11 | 11h 56 | 11h 42 | 11h 35 |
| Month score | 62 | 58 | 55 | 33 | 18 | 23 | 29 | 34 | 33 | 27 | 57 | 60 |
ivMonth by month
Garoua in every month
January62
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February58
37° / 20°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
March55
39° / 24°
2 mm · 0.4 wet days
April33
40° / 27°
37 mm · 8.4 wet days
May18
36° / 26°
112 mm · 17.7 wet days
June23
34° / 25°
146 mm · 23.2 wet days
July29
31° / 24°
196 mm · 27.4 wet days
August34
30° / 23°
258 mm · 29.1 wet days
September33
31° / 23°
180 mm · 25.6 wet days
October27
33° / 24°
67 mm · 14 wet days
November57
36° / 21°
2 mm · 0.6 wet day
December60
34° / 19°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days