Buea
City in Cameroon: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Buea from Fako: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Buea is a city in Cameroon, in South-West. About 140,533 people live in the city proper, making it the 9th largest city of Cameroon in our atlas.
It lies at 4.15° N, 9.24° E, about 859 m (2,818 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Douala time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Buea. Green dots: other major cities of Cameroon. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Buea has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 29°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 23°C (73°F). Around 2,553 mm (101 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Limbe · 15 km
- Douala · 52 km
- Kumba · 58 km
- Nkongsamba · 118 km
- Bafoussam · 196 km
- Bamenda · 224 km
- Yaoundé · 254 km
- Bertoua · 494 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2233410 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q312209 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Buea from Fako: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)