Climate averages 1991–2020
Conakry weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Conakry: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dubréka (33 km away). In May its highs average 31.6°C, 2.1°C warmer than Conakry, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Guinea, Conakry ranks joint 11th of 13 for the warmest May highs and 5th of 13 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 13 cities is 31.3°C; Conakry is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 88 mm to 358 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
Conakry climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.8°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 3.0 | 1.0 | 11.612 h |
| February | 29.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 1.0 | 0.4 | 11.812 h |
| March | 29.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.9°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 4.5 | 1.2 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 29.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 88 | 12.8 | 12.613 h |
| June | 28.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 358 | 27.3 | 12.713 h |
| July | 26.8°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 777 | 30.5 | 12.613 h |
| August | 26.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 864 | 30.5 | 12.412 h |
| September | 27.3°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 516 | 28.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 225 | 27.6 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.0°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 77 | 16.6 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 12 | 3.0 | 11.612 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
- Dubréka in MayGuinea · 33 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 86 mm rain
- Manéah in MayGuinea · 36 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 86 mm rain
- Kindia in MayGuinea · 106 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 100 mm rain
- Freetown in MaySierra Leone · 127 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 25.6°C · 159 mm rain
- Kamsar in MayGuinea · 161 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.1°C · 34 mm rain
- Makeni in MaySierra Leone · 193 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.1°C · 179 mm rain
- Mamou in MayGuinea · 197 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 21.7°C · 165 mm rain
- Labé in MayGuinea · 250 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 20.4°C · 114 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 Conakry) is explained once on the Conakry year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.