Limbe climate by month
What the weather is like
Limbe has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 29° and nights 25°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 3,800 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (360 mm, 31 wet days) and January the driest (38 mm, 4 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 38% in December to 66% in April.
The sea reaches about 29° in May. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Yaoundé, the capital, Limbe is 0.4° cooler on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · March
- Coldest nights
- 23° · July
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 38% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · May
- Longest day
- 12 h 21 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 53 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° |
| Average low | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 38 mm | 57 mm | 159 mm | 236 mm | 320 mm | 468 mm | 728 mm | 728 mm | 500 mm | 360 mm | 168 mm | 38 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4 | 6.3 | 23.5 | 25.2 | 29.2 | 29 | 29.3 | 29.8 | 28.8 | 30.7 | 20.7 | 6.8 |
| Cloud cover | 42% | 45% | 58% | 66% | 64% | 57% | 59% | 61% | 59% | 58% | 48% | 38% |
| Sea temperature | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° |
| Daylight | 11h 55 | 12h 00 | 12h 05 | 12h 12 | 12h 18 | 12h 21 | 12h 20 | 12h 15 | 12h 08 | 12h 02 | 11h 56 | 11h 53 |
| Month score | 73 | 64 | 40 | 37 | 40 | 48 | 52 | 51 | 49 | 48 | 49 | 68 |