Climate and average weather in Abba

In Abba, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Abba typically varies from 18°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 37°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Abba for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid August and early November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Jul
20°
Wettest
Oct
239 mm
Driest
Jan
4 mm
Rain / yr
1480 mm
199 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
728 m
5.3°N
Clearest
Dec
48% cloud

Abba 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 May to mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Abba stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 20°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3318
Feb3420
Mar3322
Apr3122
May3021
Jun2821
Jul2720
Aug2820
Sep2820
Oct2920
Nov3120
Dec3218

How hot and cold Abba 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, Abba feels like about 34°C (around February 10). About 156 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331818
Feb34342020
Mar34332222
Apr33312222
May32302121
Jun30282021
Jul29272020
Aug29282020
Sep30282020
Oct31292020
Nov32312020
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Abba

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 20°C.

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

Abba 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° / 18°40.911.74.1
Feb34° / 20°163.111.83.3
Mar33° / 22°8513.5123.2
Apr31° / 22°16420.712.13.4
May30° / 21°1632212.23.7
Jun28° / 21°14122.212.34.1
Jul27° / 20°15224.512.34.2
Aug28° / 20°20526.112.23.9
Sep28° / 20°22426.5123.5
Oct29° / 20°23926.811.93.4
Nov31° / 20°7911.411.84.4
Dec32° / 18°81.311.74.7

Chance of rain

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

Abba gets about 1480 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 7.4 months, from around Mar 27 to Nov 7, peaking in October at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 239 mm over about 27 wet days; January is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 9 · 90%Jan 1 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb123
Mar4414
Apr6721
May7122
Jun7422
Jul7925
Aug8426
Sep8927
Oct8627
Nov3811
Dec51

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Abba collects about 1480 mm of rain across 199 wet days — roughly 123 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 239 mm, while January is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec41685164163141152205224239798
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb163
Mar8514
Apr16421
May16322
Jun14122
Jul15225
Aug20526
Sep22427
Oct23927
Nov7911
Dec81

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Abba, 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 5 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 7. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 25 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around November 4. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 14 · 65%Aug 27 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb4753
Mar3169
Apr2674
May3367
Jun3466
Jul2080
Aug1189
Sep1486
Oct2179
Nov4159
Dec6337

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, Abba 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)
Jan11.76:176:00
Feb11.86:196:09
Mar12.06:106:08
Apr12.15:566:03
May12.25:486:03
Jun12.35:506:09
Jul12.35:576:13
Aug12.25:586:09
Sep12.05:535:55
Oct11.95:485:41
Nov11.85:525:37
Dec11.76:055:46

Sunny days

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

Abba averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Nov 9 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2914 daysAug 261 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec13Mixed

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.

In Abba, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.5 months, from around March 9 to November 21. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 22 to March 8, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 82% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 2 · 89%Apr 8 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan70131260
Feb451120230
Mar9514639
Apr0016336
May0006238
Jun0008812
Jul000991
Aug0001000
Sep000991
Oct001964
Nov5915684
Dec511617150

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 25 · 7 km/hOct 13 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Abba

In seasonPeak

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

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

Abba sees seasonal dust haze (March), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Abba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid August, Abba 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 times of year to visit Abba for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to late August and again from early November to late January, with a peak score in the first week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 1 · 4.8

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar3.2poor
Apr3.4poor
May3.7fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul4.2fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.4fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Abba for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late February, with a peak score in the third week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 21 · 7.8

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 Abba, 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.

For a warm-season trip around February (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Abba sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Abba 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 Abba peaks around March 22 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 22UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Abba

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
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Abba 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 Abba is worst in February — around 85 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.3× the cleanest month (September, 9 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateGoodModerateFeb 1183 µg/m³Sep 139 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan75Unhealthy
Feb85Unhealthy
Mar43Poor
Apr25Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep9Good
Oct13Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec56Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Abba 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. Abba banks about 5,546 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan491
Feb478
Mar531
Apr484
May474
Jun432
Jul428
Aug429
Sep423
Oct448
Nov452
Dec476

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.

Abba receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 11 to May 18. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 25% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 106.3 kWhJul 314.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Abba?

Abba sits at 5.3°N, 15.2°E, 728 m above sea level, in Central African Republic. The nearest listed city is Baboua, 63 km away.

BouarGaroua BoulaïCarnotBaoroBatouriBerbératiMeïganga

Topography around Abba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Abba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 114 m around an average of 706 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 196 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 638 m.

The land around Abba is covered by shrubs (46%) and trees (36%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and shrubs (40%) within 16 km, and trees (76%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
114 m
16 km
196 m
80 km
638 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Baboua 63 km · Bouar 83 km · Garoua Boulaï 90 km · Carnot 91 km · Baoro 97 km · Batouri 133 km · Berbérati 139 km · Meïganga 162 km

Central African Republic travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 42% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$556
2025
Happiness
3.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2019
Safe drinking water
6%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
20.1
per 100k, 2016
Road deaths
37.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank

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 Abba (5.3335°, 15.152°, elevation 728 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).