Cameroon
Weather locations in Cameroon
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Cameroon illustrated weather map
10 mapped locations
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Climate of Cameroon
Country climate guideCameroon straddles the equator, running from the humid forest belt of the Gulf of Guinea coast north to the edge of the Sahara. That single feature gives the country an extraordinary range: a tropical rainforest climate in the south, a hot semi-arid Sahelian climate in the far north, and a mountainous interlude between the two. Only about 2 degrees of latitude separate the wettest lowland in the country from almost rainless desert, and the height of Mount Cameroon, near the coast, adds a summit climate of its own.
Main climate types
The southern zone, around Douala and Yaoundé, is a moist tropical rainforest climate: warm all year, with two rainfall maxima. Moving north to the Adamawa highlands and the Garoua plain, the climate turns semi-arid and steppe-like, and the far northern departments reach a hot desert climate.
Temperatures
Along the coast, temperatures sit near 26 °C in both January and July, with high humidity and little seasonal variation. Yaoundé, about 700 metres inland on the plateau, averages about 25 °C in January and about 23 °C in July. Further north, Garoua averages about 26 °C in January and about 30 °C in July, and the harmattan winds of the dry season can push daytime highs above 40 °C while nights stay cool.
Rainfall
Annual totals fall away from south to north: more than 2,500 mm around Douala and up to over 4,000 mm in the wettest years, over 1,500 mm at Yaoundé, and only about 1,000 mm in the north around Garoua. The south has two wet seasons, one in July and one around November, with a short break between them, while the north rains almost entirely between June and September. Snow lies only on the upper slopes of Mount Cameroon, above about 4,000 metres.
When to go
The south is best visited between December and February, when the air is driest, while the north is most comfortable between November and March as well. The July and November wet seasons in the south can be wet and uncomfortably humid, and the northern summer heat makes sightseeing tiring.