Libreville
Elevation 13 m0.41° N, 9.44° E
When to go?
Mean 27 °C, 23 rain days in the month (214 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 21 rain days in the month (210 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 25 rain days in the month (339 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Torrential rain14 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 23 rain days in the month (332 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Torrential rain14 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 16 rain days in the month (222 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 25 °C, 6 rain days in the month (54 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
Mean 25 °C, 3 rain days in the month (22 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 27 °C
Mean 25 °C, 5 rain days in the month (26 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 27 °C
Mean 25 °C, 16 rain days in the month (133 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 26 °C, 29 rain days in the month (448 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 26 °C, 30 rain days in the month (501 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain17 mm per rain day
Mean 26 °C, 26 rain days in the month (312 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Torrential rain12 mm per rain day
No ideal month: the best month is July, the least hot. Avoid August–September (hot, at times often rainy), January–June (hot, at times often rainy and torrential rain), October–December (hot and often rainy and torrential rain).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
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.
Sea temperature: Gulf of Guinea
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Guinea (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Guinea (°C)
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: 1954 (−0.5 °C).
January and February warmed the most (+0.7 and +0.6 °C), April the least (+0.3 °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: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
The sea, then and now
+0.3 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990