Kindia climate

Name: Kindia
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Kindia is warmest in March, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. August is the wettest month (466 mm) and February the driest (1.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kindia averages 1,716 mm of rain and 349 days above 25 °C.

Guinea · population 161,024 · 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 36 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month February 1 mm
Wettest month August 466 mm
Least cloud February 32 % cloud
Hottest on record April 39 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C

What to expectKindia through the year

Kindia has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 33 °C in January to 36 °C in March, a swing of 4.9 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 349 days a year reach 25 °C, 211 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 466 mm against 1 mm in February — 329 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.2 °C	3 mm	35 %
February	35.0 °C	1 mm	32 %
March	35.9 °C	4 mm	37 %
April	35.5 °C	18 mm	48 %
May	32.2 °C	103 mm	73 %
June	29.1 °C	228 mm	85 %
July	27.2 °C	399 mm	89 %
August	26.6 °C	466 mm	92 %
September	27.7 °C	322 mm	87 %
October	29.0 °C	140 mm	81 %
November	30.3 °C	30 mm	61 %
December	32.0 °C	3 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	33.2 °C	19.8 °C	25.8 °C	37.0 °C	15.4 °C	31	31
February	35.0 °C	20.4 °C	26.9 °C	38.3 °C	17.4 °C	28	28
March	35.9 °C	21.6 °C	27.8 °C	38.8 °C	18.2 °C	31	31
April	35.5 °C	22.5 °C	27.9 °C	39.1 °C	19.4 °C	30	30
May	32.2 °C	22.9 °C	26.5 °C	38.9 °C	20.3 °C	31	25
June	29.1 °C	22.2 °C	24.6 °C	34.4 °C	20.4 °C	29	8
July	27.2 °C	21.5 °C	23.4 °C	31.5 °C	19.7 °C	27	1
August	26.6 °C	21.3 °C	23.0 °C	34.3 °C	19.3 °C	24	1
September	27.7 °C	21.4 °C	23.6 °C	31.6 °C	18.8 °C	27	2
October	29.0 °C	21.5 °C	24.3 °C	32.2 °C	19.7 °C	30	7
November	30.3 °C	21.6 °C	25.0 °C	33.7 °C	18.2 °C	30	18
December	32.0 °C	20.4 °C	25.4 °C	35.1 °C	16.8 °C	31	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	3 mm	1	12 h/day	35 %	55 %	9.6 km/h
February	1 mm	0	12 h/day	32 %	53 %	11 km/h
March	4 mm	1	12 h/day	37 %	54 %	13 km/h
April	18 mm	4	12 h/day	48 %	59 %	12 km/h
May	103 mm	17	13 h/day	73 %	76 %	9.7 km/h
June	228 mm	27	13 h/day	85 %	87 %	8.2 km/h
July	399 mm	29	13 h/day	89 %	90 %	8.5 km/h
August	466 mm	30	12 h/day	92 %	92 %	8.7 km/h
September	322 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	90 %	7.9 km/h
October	140 mm	23	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	7.2 km/h
November	30 mm	7	12 h/day	61 %	81 %	7.5 km/h
December	3 mm	1	12 h/day	43 %	66 %	8.9 km/h

How Kindia 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
Kindia	36 °C	20 °C	1,716 mm	349
Manéah · Guinea	33 °C	21 °C	2,580 mm	356
Dubréka · Guinea	34 °C	22 °C	2,561 mm	359
Conakry · Guinea	30 °C	23 °C	2,710 mm	360
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 Kindia ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in February	40th of 50	35 °C
The warmest places in the world in February	41st of 50	35 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kindia’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kindia?

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 February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kindia get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 211 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kindia?

August, averaging 466 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is February with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,716 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 Kindia 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
Data point: 10.057°, -12.866° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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.