Climate and average weather in Ébolowa

In Ébolowa, the weather is humid, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: late June to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ébolowa typically varies from 20°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 32°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ébolowa for warm-weather activities are from early January to late February and late June to late August.

Hottest
Feb
30°
Coldest
Aug
20°
Wettest
Oct
285 mm
Driest
Jan
69 mm
Rain / yr
2046 mm
279 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
583 m
2.9°N
Clearest
Dec
71% cloud

Ébolowa is City of Cameroon.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Ébolowa weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late June to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ébolowa, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Ébolowa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 20°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2920
Feb3021
Mar3021
Apr2921
May2921
Jun2820
Jul2720
Aug2720
Sep2720
Oct2820
Nov2820
Dec2920

How hot and cold Ébolowa really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Ébolowa feels like about 32°C (around March 2). About 43 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31292020
Feb32302121
Mar32302121
Apr32292121
May31292121
Jun29282020
Jul27272020
Aug26272020
Sep28272020
Oct29282020
Nov30282020
Dec30292020

Average hourly temperature in Ébolowa

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 20°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Ébolowa weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan29° / 20°6913.811.94.7
Feb30° / 21°8815.211.94.1
Mar30° / 21°18324.6123.3
Apr29° / 21°20726.312.13.2
May29° / 21°20026.912.13.3
Jun28° / 20°18425.812.23.8
Jul27° / 20°15624.612.24.2
Aug27° / 20°1512512.14.1
Sep27° / 20°24128.3123.5
Oct28° / 20°28529.511.93.4
Nov28° / 20°20024.411.93.8
Dec29° / 20°8514.811.84.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Ébolowa gets about 2046 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 8.4 months, from around Mar 10 to Nov 19, peaking in October at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 285 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 69 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 4 · 96%Dec 29 · 40%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4414
Feb5515
Mar8025
Apr8726
May8727
Jun8626
Jul8025
Aug8125
Sep9428
Oct9530
Nov8124
Dec4915

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ébolowa collects about 2046 mm of rain across 279 wet days — roughly 171 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 285 mm, while January is the driest at just 69 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec698818320720018415615124128520085
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6914
Feb8815
Mar18325
Apr20726
May20027
Jun18426
Jul15625
Aug15125
Sep24128
Oct28530
Nov20024
Dec8515

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Ébolowa, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 20 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around March 6. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 30% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 19 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around November 19. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 26 · 34%Aug 28 · 2%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2377
Mar1288
Apr1288
May1387
Jun1387
Jul694
Aug397
Sep397
Oct397
Nov1189
Dec3070

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. Close to the equator, Ébolowa barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.96:296:20
Feb11.96:336:27
Mar12.06:266:24
Apr12.16:146:18
May12.16:086:16
Jun12.26:116:21
Jul12.26:166:26
Aug12.16:176:22
Sep12.06:096:10
Oct11.96:025:58
Nov11.96:055:57
Dec11.86:176:07

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Ébolowa averages about 1 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 3 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Nov 24 to Feb 27. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 63 daysJul 180 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Ébolowa is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 93% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggy
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan167715
Feb017127
Mar005149
Apr004060
May004951
Jun008217
Jul03952
Aug03971
Sep00946
Oct008317
Nov007327
Dec028018

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Ébolowa is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeAug 8 · 8 km/hMay 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Ébolowa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Ébolowa throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early July, Ébolowa is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Ébolowa for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late August and again from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 5.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.7fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar3.3poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.3poor
Jun3.8fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.5poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.8fair
Dec4.8fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ébolowa for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 6.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Ébolowa, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Ébolowa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ébolowa sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ébolowa by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Ébolowa peaks around March 21 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 10 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 21UV 14Dec 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ébolowa

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55

Air quality in Ébolowa by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Ébolowa is worst in February — around 57 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 6.8× the cleanest month (September, 8 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateGoodModerateFeb 1355 µg/m³Sep 179 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan44Poor
Feb57Unhealthy
Mar34Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug12Good
Sep8Good
Oct11Good
Nov18Moderate
Dec34Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ébolowa is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Ébolowa banks about 5,215 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan458
Feb426
Mar471
Apr450
May455
Jun420
Jul412
Aug410
Sep411
Oct430
Nov424
Dec449

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Ébolowa receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 3.8 and 5.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightMar 15.0 kWhJul 293.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Ébolowa?

Ébolowa sits at 2.9°N, 11.2°E, 583 m above sea level, in Cameroon. The nearest listed city is Lolodorf, 59 km away.

MakakMbalmayoEbebiyinSangmélimaEsékaBitam

Topography around Ébolowa

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ébolowa.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ébolowa has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 308 m around an average of 600 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 453 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 995 m.

The land around Ébolowa is covered by trees (69%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, trees (97%) within 16 km, and trees (100%) within 80 km.

3 km
308 m
16 km
453 m
80 km
995 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Lolodorf 59 km · Ambam 59 km · Makak 73 km · Mbalmayo 79 km · Ebebiyin 86 km · Sangmélima 93 km · Eséka 94 km · Bitam 100 km

Cameroon travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,972
2025
Happiness
5.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
6.8
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
30.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 445
Religion
Roman Catholic 33%Muslim 31%Protestant 27%animist 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Ébolowa (2.9°, 11.15°, elevation 583 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).