Climate and average weather in Foya Kamara

In Foya Kamara, the summers are humid, hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: late November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Foya Kamara typically varies from 20°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 35°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 Foya Kamara for warm-weather activities is from late November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Aug
359 mm
Driest
Jan
17 mm
Rain / yr
2191 mm
234 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
484 m
8.4°N
Clearest
Jan
40% cloud

Foya Kamara 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 November to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Foya Kamara 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 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 21°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3120
Feb3322
Mar3223
Apr3123
May2922
Jun2822
Jul2721
Aug2721
Sep2821
Oct2921
Nov2921
Dec3020

How hot and cold Foya Kamara 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, Foya Kamara feels like about 35°C (around March 14). About 129 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)
Jan32312020
Feb34332222
Mar35322323
Apr34312323
May33292222
Jun31282222
Jul27272121
Aug27272121
Sep30282121
Oct31292121
Nov32292121
Dec31302020

Average hourly temperature in Foya Kamara

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 21°C.

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

Foya Kamara 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° / 20°173.311.65.2
Feb33° / 22°305.211.74.2
Mar32° / 23°8413.611.93.6
Apr31° / 23°13319.612.23.4
May29° / 22°22926.612.43.1
Jun28° / 22°2782812.53.3
Jul27° / 21°31928.912.43.5
Aug27° / 21°3592912.33.5
Sep28° / 21°35628.6123.4
Oct29° / 21°25429.311.83.2
Nov29° / 21°11217.711.64.4
Dec30° / 20°204.111.56.0

Chance of rain

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

Foya Kamara gets about 2191 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 7.0 months, from around Apr 14 to Nov 11, peaking in September at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 359 mm over about 29 wet days; January is the driest, with 17 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 4 · 96%Jan 1 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan113
Feb195
Mar4214
Apr6620
May8627
Jun9328
Jul9329
Aug9329
Sep9529
Oct9329
Nov5818
Dec154

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Foya Kamara collects about 2191 mm of rain across 234 wet days — roughly 183 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 359 mm, while January is the driest at just 17 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17308413322927831935935625411220
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan173
Feb305
Mar8414
Apr13320
May22927
Jun27828
Jul31929
Aug35929
Sep35629
Oct25429
Nov11218
Dec204

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Foya Kamara, 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 11 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around March 29. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 30 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around November 10. The cloudiest month is August, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 28 · 74%Aug 3 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb6436
Mar4159
Apr1684
May694
Jun694
Jul397
Aug298
Sep694
Oct1387
Nov3268
Dec6436

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. The longest day, around June 1, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.67:036:37
Feb11.77:046:47
Mar11.96:526:49
Apr12.26:366:47
May12.46:266:48
Jun12.56:276:56
Jul12.46:337:00
Aug12.36:376:53
Sep12.06:346:37
Oct11.86:316:20
Nov11.66:386:14
Dec11.56:526:22

Sunny days

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

Foya Kamara averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 26 to Mar 20. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the January peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightJan 118 daysMay 220 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb13Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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 Foya Kamara, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.0 months, from around March 7 to December 6. 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 December 7 to March 6, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 25% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 6 · 27%Apr 1 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1510253910
Feb79214123
Mar0263358
Apr0001090
May000397
Jun0001981
Jul0005941
Aug0005941
Sep0003466
Oct0001981
Nov0002575
Dec56114928

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Foya Kamara is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 17. The windiest month is August, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 18 to Feb 2, with November the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 8 · 9 km/hNov 2 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Foya Kamara

In seasonPeak

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

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

Foya Kamara sees seasonal dust haze (February–April), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Foya Kamara

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Foya Kamara 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 Foya Kamara for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 20 · 6.1

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.4poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.5fair
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov4.5fair
Dec6.0good

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 Foya Kamara 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 28 · 8.3

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 Foya Kamara, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Foya Kamara sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Foya Kamara 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 Foya Kamara peaks around March 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 highMar 16UV 13Dec 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Foya Kamara

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 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Foya Kamara 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 Foya Kamara is worst in March — around 143 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 15.9× the cleanest month (August, 9 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateGoodModeratePoorMar 17136 µg/m³Aug 209 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan75Unhealthy
Feb83Unhealthy
Mar143Unhealthy
Apr88Unhealthy
May25Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul11Good
Aug9Good
Sep10Good
Oct16Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec43Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Foya Kamara 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. Foya Kamara banks about 5,590 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)
Jan489
Feb480
Mar537
Apr496
May490
Jun446
Jul431
Aug426
Sep431
Oct460
Nov445
Dec459

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.

Foya Kamara receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Dec 3 to May 3. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 38% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 125.7 kWhAug 53.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug3.5Moderate
Sep4.1Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Foya Kamara?

Foya Kamara sits at 8.4°N, 10.2°W, 484 m above sea level, in Liberia. The nearest listed city is Gueckedou, 24 km away.

VoinjamaMacentaKoiduSegbwemaKenema

Topography around Foya Kamara

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Foya Kamara has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 143 m around an average of 456 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 320 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,247 m.

The land around Foya Kamara is covered by trees (72%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, trees (74%) and grassland (25%) within 16 km, and trees (86%) within 80 km.

3 km
143 m
16 km
320 m
80 km
1,247 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Gueckedou 24 km · Voinjama 51 km · Yende Millimou 59 km · Macenta 83 km · Koidu 90 km · Segbwema 91 km · Kissidougou 92 km · Kenema 121 km

Liberia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 0% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$915
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
3.1
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
38.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Christian 85%Muslim 12%none 3%Traditional 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 Foya Kamara (8.3603°, -10.2064°, elevation 484 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).