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Has the climate in Yaoundé changed?

Yaoundé has warmed about 1°F between 2001 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Yaoundé's official daily weather records, 2001–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Yaoundé's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Africa — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
74.2°F
Recent
74.9°F
A steady upward drift

Yaoundé's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2001 to 2024.

72°74°76°2001: 74.4°F2002: 74.3°F2004: 74.0°F2005: 73.8°F2006: 73.3°F2008: 74.4°F2009: 74.9°F2010: 75.5°F2011: 74.3°F2012: 74.6°F2013: 74.4°F2014: 74.6°F2015: 74.6°F2016: 75.4°F2017: 75.2°F2018: 74.7°F2019: 75.2°F2020: 75.5°F2021: 75.1°F2022: 74.0°F2023: 75.1°F2024: 75.0°Flong-term trend2001201020202024
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →