Climate and average weather in Lambaréné

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

Best: mid June to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lambaréné typically varies from 22°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 33°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Lambaréné for warm-weather activities is from mid June to early September.

Hottest
Mar
31°
Coldest
Jul
22°
Wettest
Nov
353 mm
Driest
Jul
12 mm
Rain / yr
2190 mm
247 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
26 m
0.7°S
Clearest
May
80% cloud

Lambaréné is town in Gabon.

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

Lambaréné 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 mid June to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lambaréné stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 31°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3124
Feb3124
Mar3124
Apr3124
May3124
Jun2823
Jul2722
Aug2822
Sep2923
Oct3024
Nov3024
Dec3024

How hot and cold Lambaréné 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, Lambaréné feels like about 39°C (around April 1). About 275 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36312424
Feb38312424
Mar39312424
Apr39312424
May37312424
Jun32282323
Jul29272222
Aug30282222
Sep32292323
Oct34302424
Nov35302424
Dec35302424

Average hourly temperature in Lambaréné

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 March afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 22°C.

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

Lambaréné 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
Jan31° / 24°23428.2122.6
Feb31° / 24°20524.5122.5
Mar31° / 24°25128.2122.4
Apr31° / 24°22926.4122.5
May31° / 24°19525.2123.0
Jun28° / 23°437.4125.8
Jul27° / 22°122.5126.8
Aug28° / 22°133.1126.6
Sep29° / 23°8113.9124.5
Oct30° / 24°27028.3122.8
Nov30° / 24°35329.6122.6
Dec30° / 24°30429.5122.6

Chance of rain

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

Lambaréné gets about 2190 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 8.0 months, from around Sep 27 to May 26, peaking in November at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 3.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 353 mm over about 30 wet days; July is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 13 · 98%Aug 3 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9128
Feb8825
Mar9028
Apr8826
May8025
Jun267
Jul83
Aug103
Sep4714
Oct9128
Nov9830
Dec9530

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lambaréné collects about 2190 mm of rain across 247 wet days — roughly 183 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 353 mm, while July is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec23420525122919543121381270353304
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan23428
Feb20525
Mar25128
Apr22926
May19525
Jun437
Jul123
Aug133
Sep8114
Oct27028
Nov35330
Dec30430

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around November 26 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around June 15. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 14% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 16 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around October 1. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 15 · 15%Aug 20 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1288
Feb1090
Mar991
Apr1189
May1486
Jun892
Jul397
Aug199
Sep496
Oct793
Nov793
Dec1090

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, Lambaréné barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 hours of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.06:276:29
Feb12.06:336:34
Mar12.06:296:29
Apr12.06:206:19
May12.06:166:14
Jun12.06:206:18
Jul12.06:266:24
Aug12.06:246:22
Sep12.06:136:13
Oct12.06:046:05
Nov12.06:036:05
Dec12.06:146:16

Sunny days

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

Lambaréné gets about 0 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 1 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyApr 101 daysJun 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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.

Lambaréné 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 100% 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 (%)
Jan004951
Feb003664
Mar002476
Apr001981
May003664
Jun012789
Jul153460
Aug157420
Sep012871
Oct008514
Nov006634
Dec005644

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 Lambaréné is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmSep 2 · 7 km/hApr 20 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Lambaréné

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Lambaréné

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Lambaréné 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 Lambaréné for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 6.9

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
Jan2.6poor
Feb2.5poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr2.5poor
May3.1poor
Jun5.7good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.5good
Sep4.5fair
Oct2.8poor
Nov2.6poor
Dec2.7poor

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 Lambaréné for hot-weather activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 7.3

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 Lambaréné, 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.

Lambaréné packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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 March, Lambaréné sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 28 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lambaréné 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 Lambaréné peaks around March 20 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 20UV 14Jun 19UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Lambaréné

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)
Jan86
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun74
Jul74.5
Aug75
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Lambaréné 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 Lambaréné is worst in February — around 30 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.6× the cleanest month (October, 11 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateFeb 1329 µg/m³Oct 1812 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan24Moderate
Feb30Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov14Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lambaréné 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. Lambaréné banks about 6,062 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan533
Feb492
Mar550
Apr534
May537
Jun469
Jul450
Aug461
Sep485
Oct521
Nov505
Dec525

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.

Lambaréné receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.1 and 4.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around Oct 7 to May 22. The brightest month is March, averaging about 4.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the March peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightMar 74.8 kWhAug 143.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb4.7Bright
Mar4.8Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.3Moderate
Jul3.1Moderate
Aug3.1Moderate
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct4.1Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Lambaréné?

Lambaréné sits at 0.7°S, 10.2°E, 26 m above sea level, in Gabon. The nearest listed city is Oyam, 74 km away.

OyamNtoumOwendoLibrevilleMouilaPort-GentilAkandaKoulamoutou

Topography around Lambaréné

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lambaréné has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 75 m around an average of 22 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 331 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 876 m.

The land around Lambaréné is covered by trees (54%) and water (22%) within 3 km, trees (90%) within 16 km, and trees (94%) within 80 km.

3 km
75 m
16 km
331 m
80 km
876 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Oyam 74 km · Ntoum 132 km · Owendo 137 km · Libreville 150 km · Mouila 158 km · Port-Gentil 162 km · Akanda 177 km · Koulamoutou 252 km

Gabon travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,263
2025
Happiness
5.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
23.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 46%Roman Catholic 30%Muslim 11%none 7%

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 Lambaréné (-0.7001°, 10.2406°, elevation 26 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).