Climate averages 1991–2020
Accra weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Accra: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 25.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Medina Estates (13 km away). In March its highs average 31.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than Accra, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 26 cities listed in Ghana, Accra ranks joint 21st of 26 for the warmest March highs and joint 5th of 26 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 26 cities is 33.3°C; Accra is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 45 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Accra climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.6°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 11 | 3.3 | 11.812 h |
| February | 31.0°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 13 | 3.9 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 31.2°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 24 | 6.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 45 | 10.7 | 12.212 h |
| May | 29.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 119 | 20.4 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 174 | 20.6 | 12.412 h |
| July | 26.5°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 63 | 10.4 | 12.412 h |
| August | 26.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 27 | 6.3 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 39 | 8.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 52 | 12.3 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.5°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 41 | 13.1 | 11.912 h |
| December | 30.3°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 22 | 6.9 | 11.812 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
March in nearby cities
- Medina Estates in MarchGhana · 13 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 25.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Gbawe in MarchGhana · 13 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Atsiaman in MarchGhana · 21 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 25.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Amanfrom in MarchGhana · 22 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Ashaiman in MarchGhana · 24 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 26.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Winneba in MarchGhana · 52 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Koforidua in MarchGhana · 60 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 24.0°C · 103 mm rain
- Cape Coast in MarchGhana · 127 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 40 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Accra) is explained once on the Accra year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gbawe lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.