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Warmest sea temperatures in Africa in December

Mahajanga tops the list at 29 °C in December. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Sea temp Avg high Rainfall
1 Mahajanga Madagascar 29 °C 31 °C 225 mm
2 Mamoudzou Mayotte 29 °C 28 °C 113 mm
3 Moroni Comoros 29 °C 31 °C 183 mm
4 Malabo Equatorial Guinea 29 °C 28 °C 61 mm
5 Beira Mozambique 29 °C 31 °C 175 mm
6 Conakry Guinea 29 °C 30 °C 11 mm
7 Manéah Guinea 29 °C 31 °C 11 mm
8 Dubréka Guinea 29 °C 31 °C 11 mm
9 Monrovia Liberia 29 °C 29 °C 107 mm
10 Zanzibar Tanzania 29 °C 30 °C 91 mm
11 Pemba Mozambique 29 °C 30 °C 160 mm
12 Freetown Sierra Leone 29 °C 28 °C 36 mm
13 Lekki Nigeria 29 °C 30 °C 32 mm
14 Ajegunle Nigeria 29 °C 30 °C 32 mm
15 Ebute Ikorodu Nigeria 29 °C 31 °C 32 mm
16 Agege Nigeria 29 °C 31 °C 31 mm
17 Nacala Mozambique 29 °C 30 °C 176 mm
18 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 29 °C 30 °C 92 mm
19 Porto-Novo Benin 28 °C 31 °C 35 mm
20 Abomey-Calavi Benin 28 °C 29 °C 31 mm
21 Cotonou Benin 28 °C 29 °C 35 mm
22 Victoria Seychelles 28 °C 27 °C 204 mm
23 Bata Equatorial Guinea 28 °C 28 °C 215 mm
24 Koumassi Ivory Coast 28 °C 29 °C 109 mm
25 Tanga Tanzania 28 °C 31 °C 72 mm
26 Sekondi Ghana 28 °C 29 °C 52 mm
27 Libreville Gabon 28 °C 28 °C 319 mm
28 Takoradi Ghana 28 °C 29 °C 54 mm
29 San-Pédro Ivory Coast 28 °C 29 °C 72 mm
30 Abidjan Ivory Coast 28 °C 29 °C 115 mm
31 Accra Ghana 28 °C 30 °C 31 mm
32 Cape Coast Ghana 28 °C 30 °C 50 mm
33 São Tomé Sao Tome and Principe 28 °C 27 °C 191 mm
34 Matuga Kenya 28 °C 30 °C 62 mm
35 Quelimane Mozambique 28 °C 31 °C 111 mm
36 Mombasa Kenya 28 °C 30 °C 72 mm
37 Jomvu Kenya 28 °C 31 °C 75 mm
38 Lomé Togo 28 °C 30 °C 30 mm
39 Toliara Madagascar 28 °C 32 °C 76 mm
40 Ashaiman Ghana 28 °C 31 °C 22 mm
41 Port-Gentil Gabon 28 °C 28 °C 354 mm
42 Toamasina Madagascar 28 °C 28 °C 209 mm
43 Kismayo Somalia 28 °C 31 °C 34 mm
44 Djibouti Djibouti 28 °C 28 °C 24 mm
45 Port Sudan Sudan 27 °C 27 °C 42 mm
46 Mogadishu Somalia 27 °C 30 °C 28 mm
47 Bissau Guinea-Bissau 27 °C 33 °C 2 mm
48 Berbera Somalia 27 °C 28 °C 10 mm
49 Saint-Denis Reunion 27 °C 27 °C 141 mm
50 Port Louis Mauritius 27 °C 29 °C 99 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

Data sources and method

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

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, 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.