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Douala weather

Littoral · 1,338,082 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:34

Air: Poor High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

29°

Mainly clear

Feels like 40°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

19 km/h

Humidity

69 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

26 %

Storm

Rise 06:05 Set 18:04 Day 11 h 59 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

27°26°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ SSW 8 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 88 %

💧 0.3 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

27°

0.2mm

SSW 8

22:00

26°

0.1mm

SSW 6

Douala 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)

Douala climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 3,110 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 27 °C in August to 31 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 23 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 21 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 53 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	24 °C	77 mm
Feb	31 °C	25 °C	103 mm
Mar	31 °C	25 °C	218 mm
Apr	31 °C	24 °C	277 mm
May	30 °C	24 °C	296 mm
Jun	28 °C	24 °C	312 mm
Jul	27 °C	23 °C	390 mm
Aug	27 °C	23 °C	374 mm
Sep	28 °C	23 °C	362 mm
Oct	29 °C	24 °C	362 mm
Nov	30 °C	24 °C	244 mm
Dec	30 °C	24 °C	101 mm
Whole year	29 °C	24 °C	3,110 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.05° N, 9.70° 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 Douala: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.528µg/m³

PM1035µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Douala

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Douala

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:09 Set 20:07

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 Douala

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

Douala weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Douala, Littoral: 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 29 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 31 °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