Weather in Accra, month by month

Warmest month
March, 27.9
Coldest month
August, 24.1
Wettest month
June, 197 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Accra is March at 27.9 degrees and the coldest is August at 24.1, a swing of 3.8 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in June, about 197 mm, and lightest in January at roughly 22 mm. Over a full year the cell above Accra collects around 1,167 mm.

No month in Accra averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in August at 89 percent, and the windiest month is July at 3 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 66 per cent of the year total falls in May, June, July, August, September and October.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 5.56, -0.2, covering Accra on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Accra, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January27.322 mm78%
February27.844 mm81%
March27.9104 mm83%
April27.7134 mm85%
May27.2196 mm86%
June25.9197 mm88%
July24.691 mm89%
August24.140 mm89%
September25.1102 mm88%
October26.1149 mm87%
November2764 mm84%
December27.425 mm80%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Accra?

March, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Accra?

August, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Accra?

June carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Kumasi, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))