Franceville climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Franceville?

Franceville has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.3 °C and it receives 1,701 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 6 September 1947, reaching 36.0 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Franceville?

The coldest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 18 July 1950, at 11.0 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Franceville?

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

Q: Has the climate of Franceville warmed?

Yes: Franceville warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Franceville?

The wettest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 13 February 2015, with 264 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Franceville?

The windiest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 3 September 1950, with winds reaching 19.6 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Franceville?

The warmest month in Franceville is March (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (23.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Franceville?

Franceville receives on average 1,701 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 247 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Franceville?

Franceville gets on average 9.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,540 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Franceville (Gabon) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 24.3 °C and it receives 1,701 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 March (25.0 °C on average) and the coldest is July (23.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in November.

Franceville averages 0 frost days, 137 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 247 rainy days per year.

Franceville has warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.16 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 36.0 °C (on 6 September 1947) and the coldest 11.0 °C (on 18 July 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

FrancevilleHaut-Ogooué Province

coords: -1.63°, 13.58°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthMarchColdest monthJulyWettest monthNovemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

24.3°C

Average daily high

29.4°C

Average daily low

20.8°C

Annual rainfall

1,701mm

Sunshine / day

9.7h

Mean relative humidity

83%

Average peak wind

8.4km/h

Seasonal range

1.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

137 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

247 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

34.6 °C

Average feels-like low

23.9 °C

Average peak gust

23.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

305 d/yr

Solar radiation

17.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.4 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.64 · 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

36.0 °C

6 September 1947

Coldest day

11.0 °C

18 July 1950

Wettest day

264 mm

13 February 2015

Windiest day

19.6 km/h

3 September 1950

Strongest gust

46.4 km/h

15 July 1950

Hottest feels-like

42.6 °C

14 February 1983

Coldest feels-like

8.0 °C

10 August 1950

Sunniest day

12.0 h

11 September 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	34.3 °C13 April 2025	18.2 °C17 August 2025	25.2 °C	1,660 mm	208
2024	35.6 °C12 March 2024	18.0 °C21 July 2024	25.7 °C	1,480 mm	235
2023	35.5 °C24 February 2023	18.9 °C3 February 2023	25.3 °C	1,675 mm	215
2022	34.0 °C23 January 2022	17.5 °C15 August 2022	25.0 °C	1,761 mm	194
2021	33.8 °C5 March 2021	18.4 °C29 July 2021	25.1 °C	1,517 mm	202
2020	35.1 °C28 March 2020	18.8 °C8 July 2020	25.3 °C	1,640 mm	192
2019	34.6 °C11 February 2019	18.2 °C27 June 2019	25.3 °C	1,595 mm	202
2018	34.9 °C12 February 2018	19.2 °C8 June 2018	25.1 °C	1,375 mm	194
2017	34.7 °C13 March 2017	18.4 °C8 July 2017	25.1 °C	1,444 mm	176
2016	35.3 °C8 March 2016	18.2 °C28 July 2016	25.5 °C	1,436 mm	214
2015	35.0 °C8 February 2015	19.3 °C7 March 2015	25.2 °C	1,619 mm	196
2014	34.6 °C20 March 2014	18.1 °C26 July 2014	25.0 °C	1,417 mm	165
2013	35.7 °C1 March 2013	18.4 °C2 August 2013	25.0 °C	1,252 mm	191
2012	34.2 °C28 March 2012	17.0 °C27 July 2012	24.9 °C	1,544 mm	181
2011	35.4 °C12 March 2011	18.0 °C3 August 2011	25.0 °C	1,426 mm	199
2010	34.7 °C4 March 2010	18.7 °C15 July 2010	25.2 °C	1,491 mm	196
2009	33.9 °C12 March 2009	17.7 °C10 July 2009	24.8 °C	1,637 mm	167
2008	33.7 °C3 March 2008	16.2 °C5 July 2008	24.7 °C	1,452 mm	181
2007	35.2 °C30 March 2007	17.7 °C6 July 2007	24.9 °C	1,623 mm	196
2006	34.3 °C5 April 2006	17.5 °C3 August 2006	24.8 °C	1,515 mm	187
2005	34.6 °C25 February 2005	17.8 °C11 January 2005	25.0 °C	1,430 mm	196
2004	34.2 °C16 March 2004	18.5 °C17 June 2004	24.8 °C	1,486 mm	182
2003	34.6 °C18 February 2003	18.5 °C20 August 2003	24.8 °C	1,631 mm	191
2002	34.2 °C1 April 2002	18.9 °C19 July 2002	24.7 °C	1,671 mm	177
2001	32.8 °C22 February 2001	17.2 °C13 August 2001	24.3 °C	1,226 mm	131
2000	33.2 °C25 February 2000	18.4 °C18 July 2000	24.1 °C	1,607 mm	117
1999	33.9 °C21 March 1999	17.8 °C25 July 1999	24.2 °C	1,886 mm	116
1998	34.6 °C5 April 1998	19.4 °C29 July 1998	25.0 °C	1,595 mm	174
1997	34.2 °C11 April 1997	16.3 °C4 July 1997	24.5 °C	1,731 mm	136
1996	32.4 °C28 January 1996	15.4 °C18 July 1996	24.2 °C	2,019 mm	111
1995	34.4 °C15 March 1995	18.5 °C15 July 1995	24.4 °C	1,862 mm	127
1994	33.9 °C18 March 1994	17.9 °C1 August 1994	24.2 °C	1,854 mm	124
1993	33.2 °C26 February 1993	19.2 °C5 July 1993	24.3 °C	1,649 mm	120
1992	33.7 °C5 March 1992	17.4 °C1 August 1992	24.1 °C	1,728 mm	119
1991	33.8 °C10 February 1991	17.3 °C7 July 1991	24.4 °C	1,653 mm	121
1990	33.7 °C30 March 1990	17.1 °C28 June 1990	24.2 °C	1,798 mm	118
1989	33.0 °C2 March 1989	16.6 °C23 July 1989	24.0 °C	1,875 mm	114
1988	33.4 °C1 March 1988	16.6 °C18 July 1988	24.3 °C	1,927 mm	110
1987	34.8 °C21 March 1987	18.1 °C21 July 1987	24.6 °C	1,699 mm	155
1986	33.2 °C18 April 1986	16.6 °C26 June 1986	24.1 °C	1,891 mm	117
1985	33.8 °C6 March 1985	17.7 °C17 June 1985	23.9 °C	1,844 mm	97
1984	33.7 °C19 March 1984	18.2 °C22 July 1984	24.1 °C	1,928 mm	116
1983	35.5 °C23 February 1983	16.8 °C26 June 1983	24.4 °C	1,440 mm	136
1982	33.3 °C19 February 1982	18.2 °C4 July 1982	23.9 °C	1,744 mm	89
1981	33.3 °C27 February 1981	16.7 °C21 July 1981	24.1 °C	1,749 mm	105
1980	34.4 °C24 February 1980	18.0 °C11 July 1980	24.1 °C	2,113 mm	117
1979	33.2 °C18 February 1979	17.5 °C8 July 1979	24.0 °C	1,967 mm	92
1978	33.6 °C26 February 1978	16.8 °C4 July 1978	24.1 °C	1,732 mm	94
1977	33.3 °C14 February 1977	17.4 °C30 June 1977	24.0 °C	1,876 mm	97
1976	33.0 °C30 March 1976	15.0 °C6 July 1976	23.6 °C	1,790 mm	66
1975	32.2 °C15 February 1975	16.7 °C1 August 1975	23.7 °C	1,796 mm	66
1974	33.8 °C27 April 1974	15.7 °C6 July 1974	23.6 °C	2,038 mm	70
1973	33.6 °C2 March 1973	17.2 °C13 July 1973	24.2 °C	2,057 mm	112
1972	32.8 °C8 February 1972	16.0 °C26 June 1972	23.9 °C	1,615 mm	86
1971	33.6 °C9 February 1971	15.1 °C21 July 1971	23.9 °C	1,694 mm	89
1970	33.2 °C23 March 1970	16.4 °C1 July 1970	24.0 °C	1,713 mm	93
1969	33.5 °C3 March 1969	17.4 °C23 July 1969	24.1 °C	1,514 mm	92
1968	32.9 °C4 April 1968	16.4 °C20 June 1968	23.8 °C	1,691 mm	64
1967	32.4 °C8 March 1967	15.8 °C23 July 1967	23.6 °C	2,653 mm	63
1966	32.8 °C19 March 1966	16.8 °C31 August 1966	24.2 °C	1,896 mm	142
1965	32.5 °C1 August 1965	17.4 °C4 July 1965	23.9 °C	1,546 mm	106
1964	32.4 °C25 August 1964	15.7 °C31 July 1964	24.1 °C	1,302 mm	134
1963	33.6 °C19 August 1963	17.8 °C30 July 1963	24.1 °C	1,658 mm	109
1962	32.8 °C24 September 1962	17.0 °C17 June 1962	23.9 °C	1,753 mm	95
1961	33.4 °C30 March 1961	15.4 °C28 July 1961	23.7 °C	2,222 mm	82
1960	32.6 °C13 February 1960	17.4 °C9 August 1960	24.0 °C	2,008 mm	99
1959	32.9 °C3 February 1959	17.3 °C4 July 1959	24.1 °C	1,649 mm	127
1958	33.6 °C10 August 1958	15.3 °C25 June 1958	24.4 °C	1,187 mm	159
1957	33.3 °C6 August 1957	15.9 °C29 June 1957	24.2 °C	1,319 mm	142
1956	33.8 °C22 August 1956	16.0 °C15 August 1956	23.8 °C	1,547 mm	101
1955	34.7 °C25 August 1955	17.0 °C6 July 1955	24.1 °C	1,493 mm	144
1954	33.7 °C26 August 1954	14.3 °C3 August 1954	24.0 °C	1,848 mm	120
1953	32.7 °C30 August 1953	14.8 °C27 June 1953	23.9 °C	2,140 mm	96
1952	32.9 °C21 August 1952	16.6 °C20 July 1952	24.1 °C	2,351 mm	150
1951	32.3 °C24 February 1951	17.0 °C18 July 1951	23.9 °C	2,032 mm	71
1950	34.4 °C15 August 1950	11.0 °C18 July 1950	23.7 °C	1,689 mm	115
1949	32.4 °C16 February 1949	17.6 °C26 June 1949	24.1 °C	1,707 mm	113
1948	33.2 °C15 August 1948	17.7 °C14 June 1948	23.9 °C	2,727 mm	97
1947	36.0 °C6 September 1947	15.0 °C20 July 1947	24.3 °C	1,778 mm	164
1946	34.2 °C29 August 1946	16.0 °C11 July 1946	24.2 °C	1,490 mm	158
1945	32.9 °C8 August 1945	17.1 °C11 June 1945	23.9 °C	1,782 mm	109
1944	35.2 °C23 August 1944	15.1 °C5 August 1944	24.4 °C	1,581 mm	180
1943	33.6 °C12 September 1943	13.9 °C6 July 1943	23.7 °C	1,432 mm	137
1942	32.5 °C27 July 1942	15.3 °C24 July 1942	23.8 °C	1,649 mm	111
1941	34.0 °C5 September 1941	16.9 °C26 July 1941	24.3 °C	1,177 mm	156
1940	33.6 °C20 September 1940	16.1 °C1 August 1940	24.0 °C	1,594 mm	142

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

30.1 °C

+0.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

208 d/yr

+71

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1660 mm

-41 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	30.7 °C	+1.1 °C	158 mm	-21 mm
Feb	31.2 °C	+0.9 °C	85 mm	-80 mm
Mar	31.3 °C	+0.8 °C	215 mm	+27 mm
Apr	30.9 °C	+0.8 °C	170 mm	-2 mm
May	30.2 °C	+0.7 °C	181 mm	+30 mm
Jun	29.4 °C	+0.9 °C	45 mm	+4 mm
Jul	27.5 °C	-0.8 °C	16 mm	-7 mm
Aug	28.8 °C	-0.2 °C	9 mm	-34 mm
Sep	30.4 °C	+1.0 °C	70 mm	-36 mm
Oct	30.3 °C	+1.2 °C	256 mm	+45 mm
Nov	30.2 °C	+1.3 °C	288 mm	+64 mm
Dec	30.3 °C	+1.2 °C	168 mm	-32 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.3 °C

13 Apr 2025

Coldest day

18.2 °C

17 Aug 2025

Wettest day

60.6 mm

31 Oct 2025

Windiest day

13.9 km/h

18 Jan 2025

Strongest gust

33.8 km/h

17 May 2025

Hottest feels-like

41.8 °C

13 Apr 2025

Coldest feels-like

19.2 °C

17 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

8 Dec 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Franceville?

Franceville has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.3 °C and it receives 1,701 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Franceville?

The hottest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 6 September 1947, reaching 36.0 °C.

What is the coldest day in Franceville?

The coldest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 18 July 1950, at 11.0 °C.

Does it snow in Franceville?

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

Has the climate of Franceville warmed?

Yes: Franceville warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Franceville?

The wettest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 13 February 2015, with 264 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Franceville?

The windiest day measured in Franceville between 1940 and 2025 was 3 September 1950, with winds reaching 19.6 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Franceville?

The warmest month in Franceville is March (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (23.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Franceville?

Franceville receives on average 1,701 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 247 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Franceville?

Franceville gets on average 9.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,540 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Franceville?

Yes: Franceville has on average 305 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Franceville?

In Franceville, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 42.6 °C on 14 February 1983, and the lowest was 8.0 °C on 10 August 1950.

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