Nzérékoré climate

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Nzérékoré is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. August is the wettest month (292 mm) and December the driest (25 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nzérékoré averages 1,872 mm of rain and 345 days above 25 °C.

Guinea · population 226,426 · 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 February 32 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month December 25 mm
Wettest month August 292 mm
Least cloud January 44 % cloud
Hottest on record February 38 °C
Coldest on record December 14 °C

What to expectNzérékoré through the year

Nzérékoré has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 32 °C in February, a swing of 3.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 345 days a year reach 25 °C, 102 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 292 mm against 25 mm in December — 11 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.4 °C	26 mm	44 %
February	32.0 °C	55 mm	57 %
March	31.0 °C	120 mm	74 %
April	29.9 °C	143 mm	84 %
May	29.0 °C	195 mm	87 %
June	27.7 °C	215 mm	85 %
July	26.3 °C	243 mm	89 %
August	26.0 °C	292 mm	91 %
September	27.0 °C	275 mm	87 %
October	27.9 °C	196 mm	82 %
November	28.4 °C	88 mm	73 %
December	29.7 °C	25 mm	51 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.4 °C	19.9 °C	25.1 °C	35.6 °C	14.5 °C	31	24
February	32.0 °C	21.5 °C	26.0 °C	38.3 °C	15.3 °C	28	24
March	31.0 °C	22.2 °C	25.7 °C	37.2 °C	17.1 °C	31	21
April	29.9 °C	22.1 °C	25.2 °C	33.4 °C	20.4 °C	30	14
May	29.0 °C	21.9 °C	24.6 °C	32.5 °C	19.8 °C	31	5
June	27.7 °C	21.2 °C	23.6 °C	30.9 °C	19.1 °C	28	1
July	26.3 °C	20.6 °C	22.7 °C	29.8 °C	17.7 °C	24	0
August	26.0 °C	20.5 °C	22.5 °C	31.3 °C	17.6 °C	23	0
September	27.0 °C	20.7 °C	23.0 °C	30.3 °C	19.0 °C	27	0
October	27.9 °C	20.9 °C	23.6 °C	30.6 °C	18.9 °C	31	0
November	28.4 °C	20.8 °C	23.9 °C	32.2 °C	17.5 °C	30	2
December	29.7 °C	20.0 °C	24.2 °C	33.9 °C	14.4 °C	31	12

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	26 mm	4	12 h/day	44 %	61 %	10 km/h
February	55 mm	8	12 h/day	57 %	66 %	11 km/h
March	120 mm	16	12 h/day	74 %	77 %	11 km/h
April	143 mm	20	12 h/day	84 %	83 %	11 km/h
May	195 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	85 %	10 km/h
June	215 mm	26	13 h/day	85 %	86 %	11 km/h
July	243 mm	27	13 h/day	89 %	87 %	11 km/h
August	292 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	88 %	12 km/h
September	275 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	10 km/h
October	196 mm	27	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	9.0 km/h
November	88 mm	17	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	8.5 km/h
December	25 mm	5	12 h/day	51 %	74 %	9.2 km/h

How Nzérékoré 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
Nzérékoré	32 °C	20 °C	1,872 mm	345
Man · Ivory Coast	33 °C	21 °C	1,511 mm	358
Kenema · Sierra Leone	34 °C	22 °C	2,287 mm	352
Monrovia · Liberia	29 °C	23 °C	3,443 mm	356
Daloa · Ivory Coast	33 °C	21 °C	1,164 mm	361
Kankan · Guinea	37 °C	19 °C	1,360 mm	362

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Nzérékoré’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nzérékoré?

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

How hot does Nzérékoré get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 102 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °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 Nzérékoré?

August, averaging 292 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is December with 25 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,872 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 Nzérékoré 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: 7.756°, -8.818° (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.