Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Pitoa
Pitoa climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation983 mm147 wet days a year
9.38° N, 13.50° EElevation 187 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goPitoa · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low34° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Pitoa 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 983 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (257 mm, 29 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in December to 59% in August.
Compared with Yaoundé, the capital, Pitoa is 11.6° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 19° · 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° | 40° | 40° | 37° | 34° | 32° | 30° | 31° | 34° | 36° | 35° |
| Average low | 19° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 22° | 20° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 36 mm | 107 mm | 144 mm | 193 mm | 257 mm | 179 mm | 64 mm | 1 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% | 34% | 42% | 45% | 46% | 57% | 59% | 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 | 61 | 58 | 55 | 33 | 19 | 22 | 28 | 34 | 33 | 26 | 57 | 59 |
ivMonth by month
Pitoa in every month
January61
34° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February58
37° / 21°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
March55
40° / 24°
2 mm · 0.4 wet days
April33
40° / 27°
36 mm · 8.4 wet days
May19
37° / 27°
107 mm · 17.7 wet days
June22
34° / 25°
144 mm · 23.2 wet days
July28
32° / 24°
193 mm · 27.4 wet days
August34
30° / 23°
257 mm · 29.1 wet days
September33
31° / 23°
179 mm · 25.6 wet days
October26
34° / 24°
64 mm · 14 wet days
November57
36° / 22°
1 mm · 0.6 wet day
December59
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days