Buea
Elevation 870 m4.17° N, 9.23° E
When to go?
Mean 25 °C, 12 rain days in the month (50 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
Mean 26 °C, 13 rain days in the month (78 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
Mean 26 °C, 22 rain days in the month (191 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 26 °C, 26 rain days in the month (257 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
Mean 25 °C, 30 rain days in the month (310 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain10 mm per rain day
Mean 24 °C, 28 rain days in the month (391 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain14 mm per rain day
Mean 23 °C, 28 rain days in the month (517 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain18 mm per rain day
Mean 23 °C, 30 rain days in the month (546 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain18 mm per rain day
Mean 24 °C, 30 rain days in the month (547 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain18 mm per rain day
Mean 24 °C, 30 rain days in the month (436 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 25 °C, 23 rain days in the month (189 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 25 °C, 15 rain days in the month (70 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
No ideal month: the best months are January–February, the least hot. Avoid March–November (often rainy, at times hot and torrential rain), December (hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Temperatures brought to the town's elevation: +3.2 °C (cells at 1356 m).
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.5 °C; in the last ten years by +0.8 °C. Warmest year: 2024 (+1.3 °C), coldest: 1976 (−0.6 °C).
January and December warmed the most (+0.8 and +0.8 °C), August the least (+0.4 °C).
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: +2 % every ten years.