Climate and average weather in Njombé

In Njombé, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around August.

Best: early December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Njombé typically varies from 22°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Njombé for warm-weather activities is from early December to late January.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
367 mm
Driest
Jan
29 mm
Rain / yr
2531 mm
284 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
74 m
4.6°N
Clearest
Dec
60% cloud

Njombé is commune and town in Cameroon.

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

Njombé 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 early December to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Njombé stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in February.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3323
Feb3324
Mar3324
Apr3124
May3023
Jun2923
Jul2822
Aug2822
Sep2923
Oct2923
Nov3023
Dec3123

How hot and cold Njombé 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, Njombé feels like about 39°C (around March 2). About 284 days a year carry some heat stress, and 8 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37332323
Feb39332424
Mar39332424
Apr38312324
May36302323
Jun33292323
Jul31282222
Aug31282222
Sep32292323
Oct33292323
Nov35302323
Dec36312323

Average hourly temperature in Njombé

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Njombé 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
Jan33° / 23°298.311.83.8
Feb33° / 24°5011.711.93.0
Mar33° / 24°15123.8122.4
Apr31° / 24°23626.912.12.5
May30° / 23°24828.912.22.6
Jun29° / 23°28328.812.33.0
Jul28° / 22°33329.312.23.3
Aug28° / 22°36729.212.13.4
Sep29° / 23°32229.2122.9
Oct29° / 23°30530.211.92.7
Nov30° / 23°16325.311.83.0
Dec31° / 23°4412.411.74.0

Chance of rain

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

Njombé gets about 2531 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 8.2 months, from around Mar 16 to Nov 21, peaking in October at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 2.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 367 mm over about 29 wet days; January is the driest, with 29 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 9 · 98%Jan 2 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb4312
Mar7624
Apr8927
May9329
Jun9629
Jul9529
Aug9529
Sep9729
Oct9730
Nov8425
Dec4112

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Njombé collects about 2531 mm of rain across 284 wet days — roughly 211 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 367 mm, while January is the driest at just 29 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec295015123624828333336732230516344
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan298
Feb5012
Mar15124
Apr23627
May24829
Jun28329
Jul33329
Aug36729
Sep32229
Oct30530
Nov16325
Dec4412

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Njombé, 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 15 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around March 12. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 50% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 13 and lasts for 8.1 months, ending around November 14. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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 25 · 56%Sep 8 · 2%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4654
Feb3961
Mar1783
Apr1090
May892
Jun991
Jul793
Aug496
Sep298
Oct496
Nov2080
Dec5050

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, Njombé barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.86:386:23
Feb11.96:406:31
Mar12.06:326:30
Apr12.16:196:25
May12.26:116:24
Jun12.36:146:29
Jul12.26:206:34
Aug12.16:216:30
Sep12.06:156:16
Oct11.96:096:03
Nov11.86:136:00
Dec11.76:256:10

Sunny days

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

Njombé averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Nov 23 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 8 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 2910 daysJun 280 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec8Mixed

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.

Njombé 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 99% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan178210
Feb037918
Mar005545
Apr003763
May004258
Jun007525
Jul00973
Aug00991
Sep00946
Oct008317
Nov006931
Dec017623

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 Njombé is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 8 · 4 km/hOct 3 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar3calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Hazard calendar for Njombé

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Njombé's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Njombé sees seasonal dust haze (January–March), heaviest in February.

Rainy season
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Njombé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Njombé is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 time of year to visit Njombé for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 4.3

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.6poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec4.0fair

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 Njombé for hot-weather activities is from early December to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 6.9

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 Njombé, 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.

Njombé packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°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, Njombé sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Njombé 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 Njombé peaks around April 10 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 10UV 13Dec 22UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Njombé

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov7.55
Dec74.5

Air quality in Njombé 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 Njombé is worst in February — around 112 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (August, 27 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 13108 µg/m³Aug 1627 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan85Unhealthy
Feb112Unhealthy
Mar64Unhealthy
Apr50Poor
May37Poor
Jun31Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct35Poor
Nov46Poor
Dec74Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Njombé 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. Njombé banks about 6,080 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan551
Feb518
Mar561
Apr519
May522
Jun478
Jul471
Aug468
Sep468
Oct495
Nov498
Dec532

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.

Njombé receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.2 and 5.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Nov 17 to May 16. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is July, down near 3.3 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the February peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightFeb 115.1 kWhJul 293.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar4.7Bright
Apr4.3Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun3.6Moderate
Jul3.3Moderate
Aug3.3Moderate
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov4.1Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Njombé?

Njombé sits at 4.6°N, 9.7°E, 74 m above sea level, in Cameroon. The nearest listed city is Penja, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Njombé

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Njombé has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 286 m around an average of 103 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 679 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,007 m.

The land around Njombé is covered by trees (84%) within 3 km, trees (95%) within 16 km, and trees (89%) within 80 km.

3 km
286 m
16 km
679 m
80 km
4,007 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Penja 7.0 km · Mbanga 14 km · Loum 17 km · Tombel 18 km · Kumba 25 km · Manjo 34 km · Souza Gare 39 km · Muyuka 43 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 Njombé (4.5806°, 9.6647°, elevation 74 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).