Climate
Douala features a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am), with relatively constant temperatures throughout the course of the year. The city typically features warm and humid conditions with an average annual temperature of 27.0 °C (80.6 °F) and an average humidity of 85%. Douala sees plentiful rainfall during the course of the year, experiencing on average roughly of 3,600 millimetres (140 in) precipitation of rainfall per year. Its driest month is December where on average 28 millimetres (1.1 in) of precipitation falls while its wettest month is August when on average nearly 700 millimetres (28 in) of rain falls.
| Climate data for Douala | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 33 (91) |
35 (95) |
37 (99) |
37 (99) |
37 (99) |
32 (90) |
35 (95) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
37 (99) |
36 (97) |
32 (90) |
37 (99) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 32.2 (90.0) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.1 (89.8) |
31.4 (88.5) |
29.9 (85.8) |
28.1 (82.6) |
27.7 (81.9) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.8 (85.6) |
30.9 (87.6) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.68 (87.22) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 27.8 (82.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.2 (82.8) |
27.8 (82.0) |
27.3 (81.1) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.9 (78.6) |
26.2 (79.2) |
27.1 (80.8) |
27.5 (81.5) |
26.96 (80.52) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 23.4 (74.1) |
24.1 (75.4) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.2 (73.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.5 (72.5) |
23.2 (73.8) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.20 (73.76) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 17 (63) |
18 (64) |
18 (64) |
18 (64) |
20 (68) |
19 (66) |
17 (63) |
18 (64) |
17 (63) |
17 (63) |
18 (64) |
20 (68) |
17 (63) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 34.2 (1.346) |
54.5 (2.146) |
155.2 (6.11) |
241.2 (9.496) |
276.2 (10.874) |
354.1 (13.941) |
681.4 (26.827) |
687.5 (27.067) |
561.2 (22.094) |
406.6 (16.008) |
123.1 (4.846) |
27.5 (1.083) |
3,602.7 (141.839) |
| % humidity | 81 | 81 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 89 | 88 | 87 | 85 | 83 | 85.2 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 26 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 215 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 192.2 | 180.8 | 170.5 | 177.0 | 176.7 | 123.0 | 71.3 | 52.7 | 90.0 | 130.2 | 162.0 | 182.9 | 1,709.3 |
| Source #1: World Meteorological OrganizationHong Kong Observatory (sun 1961-1990) | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Weatherbase (record highs and lows, humidity) | |||||||||||||
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