Garoua weather by month & the best time to visit
🇨🇲 Cameroon · small town · tropical — wet & dry seasons climate
The best time to visit Garoua is October — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 84/100). Garoua averages about 2,942 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 32°C / 90°F and roughly 68 mm of rain in October.
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- Sun hours / year
- 2,942
- Sunniest month
- October
- Peak score
- 84/100
- Rain / year
- 969 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 10 (very high)
- Population
- 35k
- Elevation
- 230 m
When is the best time to visit Garoua?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Garoua is October. The dullest month is March (10/100, 2 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Garoua?
Garoua gets a lot of sun: around 2,942 hours a year. 74 Sunshine Score points separate October (84) from March (10), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #2 of 5 destinations in Cameroon for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,679 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 63% of the year's 969 mm falls in the three months around August.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58 | 36° / 97°F | 18° / 64°F | 0 mm | 9 |
| February | 29 | 39° / 102°F | 22° / 72°F | 0 mm | 9 |
| March | 10 | 41° / 106°F | 25° / 77°F | 2 mm | 10 |
| April | 27 | 39° / 102°F | 26° / 79°F | 44 mm | 10 |
| May | 54 | 35° / 95°F | 25° / 77°F | 104 mm | 10 |
| June | 64 | 33° / 91°F | 24° / 75°F | 140 mm | 9 |
| July | 69 | 30° / 86°F | 23° / 73°F | 190 mm | 9 |
| August | 69 | 29° / 84°F | 22° / 72°F | 245 mm | 9 |
| September | 69 | 30° / 86°F | 23° / 73°F | 172 mm | 9 |
| October | 84 | 32° / 90°F | 23° / 73°F | 68 mm | 10 |
| November | 67 | 35° / 95°F | 20° / 68°F | 3 mm | 9 |
| December | 58 | 36° / 97°F | 18° / 64°F | 1 mm | 9 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- N'Djamena Chad · 360 km · best in Sep · 3,347 h sun/yr
- Kano Nigeria · 609 km · best in Jan · 3,209 h sun/yr
- Yaoundé Cameroon · 656 km · best in Jan · 1,748 h sun/yr
- Abuja Nigeria · 672 km · best in Nov · 2,524 h sun/yr
- Enugu Nigeria · 715 km · best in Jan · 1,992 h sun/yr
- Douala Cameroon · 717 km · best in Jan · 1,549 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Yola Nigeria · 104 km · 2,920 h sun/yr · best in Oct
- Maroua Cameroon · 158 km · 3,120 h sun/yr · best in Oct
- N'Gaoundéré Cameroon · 221 km · 2,679 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Maiduguri Nigeria · 282 km · 3,178 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Gombe Nigeria · 291 km · 3,074 h sun/yr · best in Jan
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