Conakry climate

Name: Conakry
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Conakry is warmest in April, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. August is the wettest month (837 mm) and March the driest (1.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Conakry averages 2,710 mm of rain and 360 days above 25 °C.

Guinea · population 1,928,389 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 30 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month March 1 mm
Wettest month August 837 mm
Least cloud February 34 % cloud
Hottest on record January 35 °C
Coldest on record January 20 °C
Warmest sea November 29 °C

What to expectConakry through the year

Conakry changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 360 days a year reach 25 °C, 64 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in January.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 837 mm against 1 mm in March — 730 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Conakry is warmest in November at 29 °C and coldest in August at 27 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.9 °C	3 mm	36 %
February	29.8 °C	2 mm	34 %
March	29.9 °C	1 mm	39 %
April	29.9 °C	6 mm	49 %
May	29.5 °C	91 mm	71 %
June	28.1 °C	334 mm	84 %
July	26.9 °C	687 mm	88 %
August	26.5 °C	837 mm	89 %
September	27.4 °C	477 mm	85 %
October	28.3 °C	189 mm	76 %
November	29.0 °C	72 mm	57 %
December	29.7 °C	11 mm	43 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.9 °C	23.4 °C	26.4 °C	35.0 °C	20.4 °C	31	11
February	29.8 °C	23.7 °C	26.5 °C	33.1 °C	20.9 °C	28	10
March	29.9 °C	24.4 °C	26.8 °C	33.7 °C	21.6 °C	31	13
April	29.9 °C	25.0 °C	27.1 °C	31.9 °C	21.9 °C	30	13
May	29.5 °C	25.6 °C	27.2 °C	32.2 °C	22.8 °C	31	8
June	28.1 °C	24.7 °C	26.2 °C	30.8 °C	22.9 °C	30	0
July	26.9 °C	24.0 °C	25.2 °C	29.5 °C	22.5 °C	29	0
August	26.5 °C	23.9 °C	25.0 °C	29.6 °C	22.5 °C	29	0
September	27.4 °C	23.9 °C	25.5 °C	30.3 °C	22.0 °C	29	0
October	28.3 °C	24.3 °C	26.1 °C	30.2 °C	22.9 °C	31	0
November	29.0 °C	24.7 °C	26.8 °C	30.7 °C	23.1 °C	30	1
December	29.7 °C	24.2 °C	26.9 °C	33.8 °C	21.2 °C	31	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	3 mm	1	12 h/day	36 %	75 %	17 km/h	27.5 °C
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	34 %	75 %	19 km/h	27.3 °C
March	1 mm	0	12 h/day	39 %	75 %	19 km/h	27.2 °C
April	6 mm	1	12 h/day	49 %	75 %	19 km/h	27.5 °C
May	91 mm	14	13 h/day	71 %	80 %	17 km/h	28.0 °C
June	334 mm	28	13 h/day	84 %	85 %	16 km/h	28.2 °C
July	687 mm	31	13 h/day	88 %	87 %	18 km/h	27.7 °C
August	837 mm	31	12 h/day	89 %	88 %	19 km/h	27.1 °C
September	477 mm	29	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	16 km/h	27.6 °C
October	189 mm	27	12 h/day	76 %	86 %	14 km/h	28.4 °C
November	72 mm	15	12 h/day	57 %	84 %	13 km/h	29.1 °C
December	11 mm	2	12 h/day	43 %	78 %	15 km/h	28.6 °C

How Conakry compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Conakry	30 °C	23 °C	2,710 mm	360
Dubréka · Guinea	34 °C	22 °C	2,561 mm	359
Manéah · Guinea	33 °C	21 °C	2,580 mm	356
Kindia · Guinea	36 °C	20 °C	1,716 mm	349
Freetown · Sierra Leone	28 °C	24 °C	3,006 mm	360
Bo · Sierra Leone	34 °C	22 °C	2,509 mm	353
Kenema · Sierra Leone	34 °C	22 °C	2,287 mm	352

Where Conakry ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in Africa in April	4thof 50	95/100
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in November	4thof 50	29 °C
Best beach destinations in Africa in January	6thof 50	96/100
Best beach destinations in Africa in March	6thof 50	96/100
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in December	6thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in June	6thof 50	28 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Conakry.

QuestionsCommon questions about Conakry’s climate

When is the best time to visit Conakry?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and March the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Conakry get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 64 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Conakry?

August, averaging 837 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is March with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,710 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Conakry rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.