Kankan climate

Name: Kankan
Address: GN

Kankan is warmest in March, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 19 °C. August is the wettest month (280 mm) and December the driest (0.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kankan averages 1,360 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Guinea · population 221,428 · 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 March 37 °C
Coldest month December 19 °C
Driest month December 0 mm
Wettest month August 280 mm
Least cloud January 31 % cloud
Hottest on record April 40 °C
Coldest on record January 13 °C

What to expectKankan through the year

Kankan has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 33 °C in December to 37 °C in March, a swing of 5.8 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 260 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 280 mm against 0 mm in December — 609 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.3 °C	2 mm	31 %
February	35.6 °C	3 mm	33 %
March	36.9 °C	13 mm	47 %
April	36.2 °C	45 mm	62 %
May	33.5 °C	125 mm	73 %
June	30.7 °C	187 mm	71 %
July	28.7 °C	239 mm	79 %
August	28.0 °C	280 mm	84 %
September	29.0 °C	274 mm	77 %
October	30.3 °C	165 mm	67 %
November	32.2 °C	28 mm	50 %
December	33.1 °C	under 1 mm	34 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	33.3 °C	18.6 °C	25.5 °C	37.8 °C	12.9 °C	31	30
February	35.6 °C	20.9 °C	28.0 °C	39.4 °C	15.8 °C	28	28
March	36.9 °C	23.7 °C	29.9 °C	40.1 °C	17.0 °C	31	31
April	36.2 °C	24.7 °C	29.7 °C	40.2 °C	19.2 °C	30	30
May	33.5 °C	23.6 °C	27.8 °C	39.0 °C	21.0 °C	31	30
June	30.7 °C	22.1 °C	25.8 °C	35.4 °C	20.0 °C	30	20
July	28.7 °C	21.5 °C	24.5 °C	32.7 °C	19.8 °C	30	5
August	28.0 °C	21.3 °C	24.1 °C	31.8 °C	19.3 °C	29	2
September	29.0 °C	21.2 °C	24.4 °C	32.9 °C	19.6 °C	29	8
October	30.3 °C	21.2 °C	25.0 °C	35.4 °C	18.0 °C	31	19
November	32.2 °C	20.1 °C	25.7 °C	37.0 °C	15.4 °C	30	28
December	33.1 °C	18.5 °C	25.4 °C	36.3 °C	14.4 °C	31	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	1	12 h/day	31 %	31 %	11 km/h
February	3 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	29 %	12 km/h
March	13 mm	3	12 h/day	47 %	40 %	13 km/h
April	45 mm	9	12 h/day	62 %	57 %	14 km/h
May	125 mm	17	13 h/day	73 %	72 %	14 km/h
June	187 mm	22	13 h/day	71 %	81 %	13 km/h
July	239 mm	25	13 h/day	79 %	84 %	13 km/h
August	280 mm	26	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	12 km/h
September	274 mm	25	12 h/day	77 %	86 %	11 km/h
October	165 mm	21	12 h/day	67 %	84 %	10 km/h
November	28 mm	4	12 h/day	50 %	63 %	10 km/h
December	under 1 mm	0	12 h/day	34 %	38 %	11 km/h

How Kankan 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
Kankan	37 °C	19 °C	1,360 mm	362
Bamako · Mali	39 °C	18 °C	773 mm	364
Nzérékoré · Guinea	32 °C	20 °C	1,872 mm	345
Kenema · Sierra Leone	34 °C	22 °C	2,287 mm	352

Where Kankan ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in February	23rdof 50	36 °C
The warmest places in the world in February	24thof 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Africa in March	36thof 50	37 °C
The warmest places in the world in March	40thof 50	37 °C
The warmest places in Africa in December	43rdof 50	33 °C
The driest places in Africa in December	49thof 50	0.5 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kankan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kankan?

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, March is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kankan get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 260 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kankan?

August, averaging 280 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is December with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,360 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 Kankan 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.