Malabo
3.75° N, 8.77° E
When to go?
Mean 29 °C, 14 rain days in the month (50 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 29 °C, 15 rain days in the month (73 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 29 °C, 23 rain days in the month (174 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 29 °C, 26 rain days in the month (207 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
Mean 29 °C, 30 rain days in the month (286 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
Mean 28 °C, 29 rain days in the month (381 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain13 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 28 rain days in the month (413 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 30 rain days in the month (446 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 30 rain days in the month (442 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain15 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 31 rain days in the month (345 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain11 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 26 rain days in the month (173 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
Mean 29 °C, 18 rain days in the month (63 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
No ideal month: the best months are January–February, the least hot. Ideal for the sea: December–February. Avoid March–December (hot, at times 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)
Temperatures brought to the town's elevation: +4.3 °C (cells at 655 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.
Sea temperature: Bight of Biafra
Monthly mean sea temperature: Bight of Biafra (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Bight of Biafra (°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 +0.9 °C. Warmest year: 2024 (+1.5 °C), coldest: 1976 (−0.6 °C).
December and January warmed the most (+0.8 and +0.7 °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: +3 % every ten years.
The sea, then and now
+0.3 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990