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Yaounde weather

Centre · 1,299,369 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:43

Rain around 19:03 Air: Poor High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

26°

Rain showers

Feels like 34°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

72 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

61 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:57 Set 17:57 Day 11 h 59 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

23°21°

Feels like 33°

Wind ↑ W 5 km/h

Gusts 14 km/h

Humidity 92 %

💧 4.0 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

23°

2.2mm

SW 3

22:00

21°

1.8mm

W 5

Yaounde 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)

Yaounde climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 26 °C in August to 31 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 20 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,630 mm of rain — more than 80% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 20 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 54 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	21 °C	42 mm
Feb	31 °C	21 °C	54 mm
Mar	31 °C	21 °C	127 mm
Apr	30 °C	21 °C	175 mm
May	29 °C	21 °C	179 mm
Jun	28 °C	21 °C	160 mm
Jul	27 °C	20 °C	127 mm
Aug	26 °C	20 °C	128 mm
Sep	27 °C	21 °C	183 mm
Oct	27 °C	21 °C	238 mm
Nov	28 °C	21 °C	162 mm
Dec	29 °C	21 °C	53 mm
Whole year	28 °C	21 °C	1,630 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.87° N, 11.52° 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 Yaounde: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.549µg/m³

PM1055µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Yaounde

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

Moon over Yaounde

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:02 Set 19:59

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 Yaounde

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

Yaounde weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Yaounde, Centre: 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 26 °C (feels like 34 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 29 °C and around 4 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.

Other big cities nearby

Douala 202 km 29°

Bafoussam 217 km 26°

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