Gabon · Africa

Best Time to Visit Gabon

Best: Jun-Aug · Great: Sep

🏖 Beaches & Islands🐘 Safari & Wildlife🌋 Natural Wonders
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Weather

A classic dry-summer rhythm shapes the year — hot, largely rain-free stretches around March giving way to milder, wetter conditions by November. In July, expect highs around 27°C with rain on roughly 0 days of the month.

Things to Do

Loango National Park, sometimes called Africa's Last Eden, is known for forest elephants and hippos that wander onto the beach itself, alongside surfing hippos and rich rainforest wildlife.

Local Cuisine

Try nyembwe chicken, cooked in palm nut sauce, a Gabonese specialty.

Month-by-month weather

Daylight, sunrise, and sunset are calculated exactly from this region's latitude. Temperature and rainfall are modeled from its general climate type, not measured station data. Month summaries are generated from those modeled figures.

JanuaryOK

Expect warm days around 30°/21°C, with occasional rain (~9 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low30° / 21°C
Rainfall72 mm
Rainy days9
Sunrise6:01 AM
Sunset5:59 PM
Daylight11h 59m
FebruaryOK

Expect hot days around 31°/21°C, with occasional rain (~9 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low31° / 21°C
Rainfall72 mm
Rainy days9
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight11h 59m
MarchOK

Expect hot days around 32°/21°C, with frequent rain (~10 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low32° / 21°C
Rainfall80 mm
Rainy days10
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight11h 60m
AprilOK

Expect hot days around 31°/21°C, with frequent rain (~10 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low31° / 21°C
Rainfall80 mm
Rainy days10
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight12h 1m
MayOK

Expect warm days around 30°/20°C, with occasional rain (~7 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low30° / 20°C
Rainfall56 mm
Rainy days7
Sunrise5:59 AM
Sunset6:01 PM
Daylight12h 1m
JuneBest

Expect warm days around 28°/18°C, with mostly dry conditions (~1 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low28° / 18°C
Rainfall8 mm
Rainy days1
Sunrise5:59 AM
Sunset6:01 PM
Daylight12h 1m
JulyBest

Expect warm days around 27°/17°C, with mostly dry conditions (~0 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low27° / 17°C
Rainfall0 mm
Rainy days0
Sunrise5:59 AM
Sunset6:01 PM
Daylight12h 1m
AugustBest

Expect warm days around 28°/17°C, with mostly dry conditions (~1 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low28° / 17°C
Rainfall8 mm
Rainy days1
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight12h 1m
SeptemberGreat

Expect warm days around 30°/19°C, with occasional rain (~4 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low30° / 19°C
Rainfall32 mm
Rainy days4
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight12h 0m
OctoberOK

Expect hot days around 31°/20°C, with frequent rain (~10 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low31° / 20°C
Rainfall80 mm
Rainy days10
Sunrise6:00 AM
Sunset6:00 PM
Daylight11h 59m
NovemberAvoid

Expect hot days around 31°/20°C, with very wet conditions (~16 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low31° / 20°C
Rainfall128 mm
Rainy days16
Sunrise6:01 AM
Sunset5:59 PM
Daylight11h 59m
DecemberAvoid

Expect hot days around 31°/21°C, with frequent rain (~14 rainy days).

Humid — heat will feel more intense than the temperature alone suggests
High / Low31° / 21°C
Rainfall112 mm
Rainy days14
Sunrise6:01 AM
Sunset5:59 PM
Daylight11h 59m

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