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Freetown Climate & Temperature

⛺ Freetown has a tropical monsoonal climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Am) with a dry season and a heavy monsoon the rest of year, no cold season.tropical monsoonal climate (Am)

🌡️ The annual mean temperature is 27.3 degrees Celsius (81.2 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.

🐬 Average monthly temperatures vary by 2.6 °C (4.7°F). This indicates that the continentality type is hyperoceanic, subtype extremely hyperoceanic.

☔ Total annual precipitation averages 2945.3 mm (116 inches) which is equivalent to 2945.3 Litres/m² (72.24 Gallons/ft²).

Freetown Climate Graph

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✨ The longest day of the year is 12:30 long on the 22 of June and the shortest day is 11:29 long on the 21 of December.

🌞 On average there are 2187 hours of sunshine per year. Visit the sunshine and daylight section to check monthly details including how high in the sky the sun reaches each month.

🐇Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Freetown you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Auki, Solomon Islands (Tropical moist forest biome).

🌍Freetown, Sierra Leone is at 8°37'N, 13°12'W, 27 m (89 ft). Check the location on the map.

Freetown Climate Table

Average Max Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
30 (86) 30 (87) 31 (88) 31 (88) 31 (88) 30 (86) 29 (84) 28 (83) 29 (84) 30 (86) 30 (86) 30 (85) 30 (86)
Average Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
27 (81) 28 (82) 28 (83) 29 (83) 28 (83) 27 (81) 26 (79) 26 (79) 26 (80) 27 (81) 28 (82) 28 (82) 27 (81)
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
24 (75) 24 (75) 24 (76) 25 (77) 24 (76) 24 (74) 23 (74) 23 (73) 23 (74) 23 (74) 24 (75) 24 (75) 24 (75)
Average Precipitation mm (in)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
3 (0) 4 (0) 13 (0) 47 (2) 177 (7) 323 (13) 734 (29) 791 (31) 484 (19) 266 (10) 88 (3) 16 (1) 2945 (116)
Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day %)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1 (3) 1 (4) 2 (6) 5 (17) 13 (42) 20 (67) 25 (81) 24 (77) 23 (77) 19 (61) 11 (37) 5 (16) 149 (41)
Average Sunlight Hours/ Day
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
7h 48' 7h 53' 8h 11' 7h 30' 6h 30' 4h 48' 2h 54' 2h 17' 4h 00' 6h 11' 6h 42' 7h 11' 5h 59'
Average Daylight Hours/ Day
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
11h 40' 11h 50' 12h 03' 12h 18' 12h 30' 12h 36' 12h 33' 12h 23' 12h 09' 11h 55' 11h 43' 11h 37' 12h 00'
Percentage of Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
68 (32) 67 (33) 69 (31) 62 (38) 53 (47) 38 (62) 23 (77) 19 (81) 33 (67) 52 (48) 58 (42) 63 (37) 50 (50)
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°).
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
61.4 70.6 81.5 86.7 78.4 75.2 78.1 86.5 81.8 70.2 61.2 58 74.2


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