Akanda climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Akanda?

Akanda has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.7 °C and it receives 2,249 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Akanda?

The hottest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 1 April 2024, reaching 30.3 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Akanda?

The coldest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 29 August 1950, at 18.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Akanda?

Almost never: Akanda sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Akanda warmed?

Yes: Akanda warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Akanda?

The wettest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 12 May 1992, with 248 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Akanda?

The windiest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 16 July 1950, with winds reaching 41.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Akanda?

The warmest month in Akanda is April (27.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (24.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Akanda?

Akanda receives on average 2,249 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 266 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Akanda?

Akanda gets on average 9.4 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,431 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Akanda (Gabon) has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 25.7 °C and it receives 2,249 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is April (27.0 °C on average) and the coldest is July (24.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in November.

Akanda averages 0 frost days, 0 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 266 rainy days per year.

Akanda has warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.12 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 30.3 °C (on 1 April 2024) and the coldest 18.8 °C (on 29 August 1950).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

AkandaEstuaire

coords: 0.61°, 9.33°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AmTropical monsoonWarmest monthAprilColdest monthJulyWettest monthNovemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

25.7°C

Average daily high

26.4°C

Average daily low

24.8°C

Annual rainfall

2,249mm

Sunshine / day

9.4h

Mean relative humidity

84%

Average peak wind

19.6km/h

Seasonal range

3.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

0 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

266 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.7 °C

Average feels-like low

27.9 °C

Average peak gust

27.9 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

365 d/yr

Solar radiation

17.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.1 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.68 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

30.3 °C

1 April 2024

Coldest day

18.8 °C

29 August 1950

Wettest day

248 mm

12 May 1992

Windiest day

41.1 km/h

16 July 1950

Strongest gust

57.6 km/h

16 July 1950

Hottest feels-like

38.3 °C

20 March 2024

Coldest feels-like

15.2 °C

29 August 1950

Sunniest day

11.9 h

21 October 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	29.2 °C8 March 2025	22.8 °C12 August 2025	26.2 °C	2,025 mm	0
2024	30.3 °C1 April 2024	23.5 °C2 August 2024	26.7 °C	2,423 mm	1
2023	29.1 °C27 December 2023	23.5 °C10 July 2023	26.4 °C	2,459 mm	0
2022	28.9 °C13 March 2022	23.3 °C11 July 2022	26.1 °C	2,426 mm	0
2021	28.9 °C2 March 2021	24.1 °C23 July 2021	26.4 °C	2,772 mm	0
2020	29.8 °C27 March 2020	23.9 °C30 August 2020	26.4 °C	3,173 mm	0
2019	29.2 °C9 April 2019	23.6 °C4 August 2019	26.4 °C	2,782 mm	0
2018	28.6 °C20 March 2018	23.6 °C4 August 2018	26.1 °C	2,298 mm	0
2017	28.8 °C15 March 2017	23.2 °C20 July 2017	26.1 °C	1,832 mm	0
2016	29.2 °C8 March 2016	23.3 °C29 July 2016	26.3 °C	1,967 mm	0
2015	28.7 °C11 March 2015	22.7 °C31 July 2015	25.8 °C	2,022 mm	0
2014	28.7 °C3 May 2014	22.3 °C18 July 2014	25.7 °C	2,783 mm	0
2013	29.1 °C12 March 2013	22.1 °C12 August 2013	25.7 °C	2,185 mm	0
2012	28.6 °C15 March 2012	23.1 °C24 July 2012	25.9 °C	2,651 mm	0
2011	28.9 °C31 March 2011	22.6 °C25 July 2011	25.7 °C	1,901 mm	0
2010	29.4 °C1 March 2010	22.7 °C15 July 2010	26.0 °C	1,519 mm	0
2009	28.9 °C6 April 2009	22.7 °C11 July 2009	25.9 °C	1,993 mm	0
2008	28.7 °C4 March 2008	23.1 °C8 July 2008	25.8 °C	2,079 mm	0
2007	29.4 °C28 March 2007	23.4 °C28 June 2007	26.0 °C	2,760 mm	0
2006	29.3 °C2 April 2006	22.7 °C25 July 2006	25.9 °C	1,872 mm	0
2005	29.5 °C26 March 2005	21.9 °C30 June 2005	25.9 °C	1,473 mm	0
2004	28.7 °C28 February 2004	23.1 °C13 July 2004	25.9 °C	1,892 mm	0
2003	29.1 °C1 April 2003	23.7 °C1 July 2003	26.2 °C	2,352 mm	0
2002	28.8 °C29 March 2002	23.5 °C22 July 2002	25.9 °C	2,219 mm	0
2001	28.8 °C6 April 2001	21.6 °C22 July 2001	25.6 °C	1,877 mm	0
2000	28.7 °C26 March 2000	23.0 °C15 July 2000	25.7 °C	2,491 mm	0
1999	29.0 °C10 April 1999	23.2 °C29 July 1999	25.8 °C	2,411 mm	0
1998	29.6 °C11 February 1998	23.9 °C8 August 1998	26.5 °C	2,289 mm	0
1997	28.6 °C9 April 1997	22.6 °C2 July 1997	25.7 °C	2,092 mm	0
1996	28.9 °C5 April 1996	22.3 °C4 August 1996	25.7 °C	2,209 mm	0
1995	29.4 °C9 April 1995	23.0 °C16 July 1995	26.0 °C	1,957 mm	0
1994	28.7 °C27 March 1994	22.6 °C21 July 1994	25.7 °C	1,863 mm	0
1993	28.7 °C4 April 1993	23.1 °C25 July 1993	25.7 °C	1,662 mm	0
1992	28.4 °C30 March 1992	22.0 °C25 July 1992	25.5 °C	1,951 mm	0
1991	29.0 °C22 February 1991	23.2 °C8 July 1991	25.8 °C	1,926 mm	0
1990	29.1 °C23 March 1990	22.4 °C11 July 1990	25.7 °C	1,829 mm	0
1989	28.6 °C1 March 1989	22.7 °C21 July 1989	25.7 °C	2,207 mm	0
1988	28.8 °C1 March 1988	23.8 °C9 July 1988	26.0 °C	2,592 mm	0
1987	29.0 °C16 April 1987	23.3 °C6 August 1987	26.0 °C	2,139 mm	0
1986	28.9 °C8 April 1986	22.7 °C6 July 1986	25.5 °C	2,170 mm	0
1985	28.4 °C26 March 1985	22.9 °C7 July 1985	25.6 °C	1,855 mm	0
1984	28.6 °C21 March 1984	23.3 °C19 July 1984	25.8 °C	2,280 mm	0
1983	28.9 °C19 March 1983	22.5 °C19 August 1983	25.6 °C	1,583 mm	0
1982	28.6 °C4 March 1982	22.5 °C3 July 1982	25.4 °C	2,074 mm	0
1981	28.6 °C17 April 1981	21.8 °C4 August 1981	25.4 °C	2,099 mm	0
1980	28.4 °C14 March 1980	22.4 °C24 June 1980	25.3 °C	2,184 mm	0
1979	28.4 °C23 March 1979	22.6 °C23 July 1979	25.5 °C	1,896 mm	0
1978	28.0 °C22 February 1978	21.5 °C3 July 1978	25.2 °C	2,322 mm	0
1977	28.4 °C15 April 1977	22.2 °C30 June 1977	25.4 °C	2,604 mm	0
1976	28.2 °C23 March 1976	21.5 °C10 July 1976	25.0 °C	2,711 mm	0
1975	28.5 °C24 March 1975	21.6 °C27 July 1975	25.3 °C	2,638 mm	0
1974	28.4 °C6 April 1974	22.2 °C3 July 1974	25.4 °C	2,942 mm	0
1973	29.1 °C6 March 1973	22.6 °C18 July 1973	25.8 °C	2,582 mm	0
1972	28.4 °C23 March 1972	22.1 °C12 July 1972	25.5 °C	2,144 mm	0
1971	28.5 °C19 March 1971	22.3 °C22 July 1971	25.4 °C	2,393 mm	0
1970	28.8 °C1 April 1970	22.4 °C17 July 1970	25.5 °C	2,041 mm	0
1969	29.0 °C4 April 1969	22.4 °C21 July 1969	25.5 °C	2,049 mm	0
1968	28.4 °C4 April 1968	22.1 °C31 July 1968	25.4 °C	2,430 mm	0
1967	28.7 °C29 March 1967	22.9 °C23 July 1967	25.4 °C	3,586 mm	0
1966	29.1 °C31 March 1966	22.7 °C28 August 1966	25.8 °C	2,832 mm	0
1965	28.5 °C10 April 1965	22.5 °C21 July 1965	25.4 °C	2,660 mm	0
1964	28.9 °C3 April 1964	22.2 °C2 August 1964	25.4 °C	2,550 mm	0
1963	28.8 °C23 March 1963	22.9 °C16 July 1963	25.7 °C	3,067 mm	0
1962	28.3 °C6 March 1962	22.0 °C25 July 1962	25.4 °C	2,704 mm	0
1961	28.6 °C25 February 1961	21.1 °C31 July 1961	25.4 °C	2,659 mm	0
1960	28.4 °C3 April 1960	22.5 °C20 July 1960	25.4 °C	2,385 mm	0
1959	28.8 °C19 March 1959	22.8 °C27 July 1959	25.6 °C	1,890 mm	0
1958	28.7 °C11 February 1958	20.8 °C20 July 1958	25.2 °C	1,694 mm	0
1957	27.4 °C19 March 1957	21.8 °C27 July 1957	25.1 °C	1,303 mm	0
1956	28.0 °C29 March 1956	21.6 °C11 July 1956	25.1 °C	2,314 mm	0
1955	28.2 °C12 April 1955	22.1 °C11 July 1955	25.3 °C	2,226 mm	0
1954	28.1 °C26 March 1954	20.5 °C31 July 1954	25.0 °C	2,057 mm	0
1953	28.3 °C2 April 1953	21.5 °C9 August 1953	25.2 °C	2,043 mm	0
1952	28.4 °C15 April 1952	21.9 °C14 July 1952	25.4 °C	2,427 mm	0
1951	28.1 °C29 March 1951	22.2 °C19 July 1951	25.4 °C	2,402 mm	0
1950	28.6 °C7 April 1950	18.8 °C29 August 1950	25.3 °C	2,429 mm	0
1949	28.5 °C9 March 1949	22.8 °C3 August 1949	25.6 °C	1,946 mm	0
1948	28.4 °C25 February 1948	22.0 °C11 July 1948	25.3 °C	3,052 mm	0
1947	28.5 °C22 April 1947	22.0 °C20 July 1947	25.3 °C	2,167 mm	0
1946	28.8 °C30 March 1946	21.1 °C21 July 1946	25.3 °C	2,058 mm	0
1945	28.6 °C5 April 1945	22.0 °C8 July 1945	25.3 °C	2,091 mm	0
1944	28.4 °C15 April 1944	21.7 °C1 August 1944	25.3 °C	1,803 mm	0
1943	28.1 °C17 March 1943	21.0 °C3 July 1943	25.0 °C	2,139 mm	0
1942	28.5 °C8 April 1942	20.7 °C17 July 1942	25.2 °C	2,423 mm	0
1941	28.2 °C27 March 1941	22.2 °C1 August 1941	25.4 °C	2,042 mm	0
1940	28.3 °C2 March 1940	22.0 °C3 August 1940	25.2 °C	2,075 mm	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.0 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

0 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2025 mm

-224 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.0 °C	+0.9 °C	153 mm	-80 mm
Feb	28.5 °C	+0.9 °C	90 mm	-110 mm
Mar	28.6 °C	+0.6 °C	245 mm	+11 mm
Apr	28.6 °C	+0.7 °C	161 mm	-67 mm
May	27.8 °C	+0.6 °C	176 mm	-42 mm
Jun	26.7 °C	+1.1 °C	105 mm	+42 mm
Jul	25.1 °C	+0.6 °C	19 mm	-4 mm
Aug	24.5 °C	0.0 °C	14 mm	-15 mm
Sep	25.5 °C	+0.3 °C	182 mm	+70 mm
Oct	26.3 °C	+0.3 °C	321 mm	+33 mm
Nov	26.8 °C	+0.3 °C	367 mm	+31 mm
Dec	27.3 °C	+0.5 °C	193 mm	-95 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

29.2 °C

8 Mar 2025

Coldest day

22.8 °C

12 Aug 2025

Wettest day

115.6 mm

20 Oct 2025

Windiest day

31.3 km/h

18 Jan 2025

Strongest gust

47.5 km/h

31 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

36.7 °C

8 Mar 2025

Coldest feels-like

23.1 °C

12 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

11.9 h

22 Oct 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Akanda?

Akanda has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.7 °C and it receives 2,249 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Akanda?

The hottest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 1 April 2024, reaching 30.3 °C.

What is the coldest day in Akanda?

The coldest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 29 August 1950, at 18.8 °C.

Does it snow in Akanda?

Almost never: Akanda sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Akanda warmed?

Yes: Akanda warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Akanda?

The wettest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 12 May 1992, with 248 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Akanda?

The windiest day measured in Akanda between 1940 and 2025 was 16 July 1950, with winds reaching 41.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Akanda?

The warmest month in Akanda is April (27.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (24.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Akanda?

Akanda receives on average 2,249 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 266 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Akanda?

Akanda gets on average 9.4 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,431 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Akanda?

Yes: Akanda has on average 365 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Akanda?

In Akanda, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.3 °C on 20 March 2024, and the lowest was 15.2 °C on 29 August 1950.

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