Malabo features a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen ''Am''). Malabo receives on average  of rain per year. The city has a pronounced, albeit short, sunnier (but still cloudy) dry season from December through February. January is normally its driest month with  of rain falling on average. It also has a very long cloudy wet season that covers the remaining nine months from March to November. On average, the months hit hardest by the wet season are September and October, which receive  of rain and showers between them.