Climate averages 1991–2020
Takoradi weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Takoradi: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 190 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sekondi (6 km away). In May its highs average 28.6°C, about as warm as Takoradi, with 190 mm of rain.
Among the 26 cities listed in Ghana, Takoradi ranks 25th of 26 for the warmest May highs and joint 23rd of 26 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 26 cities is 31.2°C; Takoradi is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 190 mm to 233 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Takoradi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.7°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 40 | 10.7 | 11.912 h |
| February | 30.2°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 50 | 13.3 | 12.012 h |
| March | 30.3°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 72 | 17.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.0°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 93 | 19.8 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 28.9°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 190 | 26.6 | 12.312 h |
| June | 27.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 233 | 26.0 | 12.412 h |
| July | 26.6°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 101 | 20.1 | 12.412 h |
| August | 26.4°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 62 | 17.3 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.1°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 105 | 21.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 121 | 24.9 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.0°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 88 | 21.4 | 11.912 h |
| December | 29.3°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 54 | 14.9 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Sekondi in MayGhana · 6 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 24.9°C · 190 mm rain
- Cape Coast in MayGhana · 61 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 165 mm rain
- Twifu Praso in MayGhana · 83 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.4°C · 213 mm rain
- Winneba in MayGhana · 136 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 152 mm rain
- Obuase in MayGhana · 145 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 142 mm rain
- Amanfrom in MayGhana · 167 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.9°C · 117 mm rain
- Gbawe in MayGhana · 177 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 119 mm rain
- Atsiaman in MayGhana · 182 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.7°C · 108 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 Takoradi) is explained once on the Takoradi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sekondi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.