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Bafoussam weather

West · 373,268 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:42

Mainly clear
26°
Mainly clear
Feels like 31°C
Wind
10 km/h
Gusts
16 km/h
Humidity
61 %
Pressure
1011 hPa
Clouds
35 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:03 Set 18:00 Day 11 h 56 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
23°19°
Feels like 29°
Wind ↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 74 %
💧 0.6 mm
⚡ storm
19:00
Rain showers
23°
0.6mm
SE 2
22:00
Mainly clear
19°
W 5

Bafoussam forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
15°19°23°26°30°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed26°18°Thu 29 Oct: max 27° · min 19° · normal 21.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 24° · min 17° · normal 21.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 25° · min 17° · normal 21.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 25° · min 17° · normal 21.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 27° · min 18° · normal 21.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 17° · normal 21.1°Wed 4 Nov: max 26° · min 18° · normal 21.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu15°22°29°28°17°013
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bafoussam climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 17 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,780 mm of rain — more than 84% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in February: 30 °C in the afternoon against 17 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan29 °C16 °C7 mm
Feb31 °C17 °C20 mm
Mar30 °C18 °C80 mm
Apr27 °C18 °C162 mm
May26 °C17 °C186 mm
Jun25 °C17 °C204 mm
Jul23 °C17 °C279 mm
Aug23 °C17 °C294 mm
Sep24 °C17 °C276 mm
Oct24 °C16 °C211 mm
Nov26 °C16 °C55 mm
Dec28 °C15 °C6 mm
Whole year26 °C17 °C1,780 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.48° N, 10.42° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Bafoussam: pollution and pollen

6/6
Extremely poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.590µg/m³
PM10104µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bafoussam

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bafoussam, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Bafoussam yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bafoussam

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 07:03 Set 20:08
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Douala); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bafoussam

Curious about the weather in Bafoussam on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Bafoussam weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bafoussam, West: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 26 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 27 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations