Ideal weather days in Douala
The best time to visit Douala for warm, dry weather is July and November, with 10 to 13 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Douala's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Douala, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet163
- Too hot149
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Douala averaged 82 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Cameroon, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December (up to 11 a month, 32 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 1.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 163 a year, mostly in June to October. Another 149 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in December to May. A day can fail more than one test.
Douala weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34 °C 93 °F | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 of 31 |
| February | 35 °C 94 °F | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 of 28 |
| March | 34 °C 93 °F | 13 | 0 | 1 | 6 of 31 |
| April | 34 °C 93 °F | 14 | 0 | 0 | 6 of 30 |
| May | 34 °C 93 °F | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 88 °F | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9 of 30 |
| July | 29 °C 84 °F | 22 | 0 | 0 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 27 | 0 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 31 °C 88 °F | 23 | 0 | 0 | 6 of 30 |
| October | 32 °C 89 °F | 22 | 0 | 0 | 9 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 of 30 |
| December | 34 °C 93 °F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 of 31 |
| Year | 176 | 0 | 4 | 82 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 111 warm, dry days
- 2024 86 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Douala for good weather?
The best time to visit Douala for warm, dry weather is July and November, with 10 to 13 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December (up to 11 a month, 32 a year). Counted from measured days at Douala station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Douala?
On average 176 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (27 rain days), the driest January (2).
How many sunny days does Douala get a year?
About 4 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (1).
How warm does Douala get?
The median daily high ranged from 28 °C (82 °F) in August to 35 °C (94 °F) in February.
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Source: Douala weather station (64910099999), 7 km from the centre of Douala, 10 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 84% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.