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Bamenda weather

North-West · 420,445 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:51

Raining now Air: Very poor Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

22°

Rain showers

Feels like 28°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

74 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

28 %

Storm

Moderate

Rise 06:05 Set 18:00 Day 11 h 55 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

21°17°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ W 2 km/h

Humidity 82 %

💧 4.3 mm

19:00

21°

4.3mm

N 1

22:00

17°

W 2

Bamenda 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)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bamenda climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 22 °C in August to 30 °C in February, and the coolest nights (December) average 14 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,750 mm of rain — more than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in January: 29 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 15 °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)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	14 °C	13 mm
Feb	30 °C	15 °C	40 mm
Mar	29 °C	17 °C	157 mm
Apr	26 °C	17 °C	303 mm
May	25 °C	17 °C	321 mm
Jun	24 °C	17 °C	346 mm
Jul	22 °C	16 °C	368 mm
Aug	22 °C	16 °C	354 mm
Sep	23 °C	16 °C	402 mm
Oct	24 °C	16 °C	331 mm
Nov	26 °C	15 °C	102 mm
Dec	28 °C	14 °C	12 mm
Whole year	26 °C	16 °C	2,750 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.96° N, 10.15° 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 Bamenda: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.559µg/m³

PM1070µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bamenda

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bamenda, 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 Bamenda yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bamenda

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:03 Set 20:10

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 Bamenda

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

Bamenda weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bamenda, North-West: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 22 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 26 °C and around 7 mm of rain; 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