Climate averages 1991–2020
Abidjan weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 6th 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 Abidjan: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 205 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 22 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Koumassi (7 km away). In May its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Abidjan, with 205 mm of rain.
Among the 30 cities listed in Ivory Coast, Abidjan ranks 25th of 30 for the warmest May highs and joint 25th of 30 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 30 cities is 30.6°C; Abidjan is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 205 mm to 256 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
Abidjan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.8°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 47 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| February | 30.1°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 53 | 15.5 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.2°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 78 | 20.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 106 | 21.9 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 28.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 205 | 27.6 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 256 | 27.2 | 12.412 h |
| July | 26.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 128 | 19.3 | 12.412 h |
| August | 26.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 60 | 13.3 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 87 | 18.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.0°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 107 | 23.0 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 96 | 23.6 | 11.912 h |
| December | 29.2°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 64 | 17.7 | 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
- Koumassi in MayIvory Coast · 7 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 25.0°C · 205 mm rain
- Bingerville in MayIvory Coast · 13 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 24.1°C · 205 mm rain
- Anyama in MayIvory Coast · 17 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.4°C · 230 mm rain
- Grand-Bassam in MayIvory Coast · 33 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 25.3°C · 206 mm rain
- Dabou in MayIvory Coast · 42 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 186 mm rain
- Agboville in MayIvory Coast · 68 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.5°C · 152 mm rain
- Adzopé in MayIvory Coast · 85 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.4°C · 168 mm rain
- Divo in MayIvory Coast · 159 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 153 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 Abidjan) is explained once on the Abidjan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Koumassi and Bingerville lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.