Climate averages 1991–2020
Freetown weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the joint 4th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Freetown: daytime highs average 27.7°C and nights cool to about 25.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Conakry (127 km away). In April its highs average 29.9°C, 2.2°C warmer than Freetown, with 4.5 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Sierra Leone, Freetown ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest April highs and 1st of 5 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 5 cities is 31.4°C; Freetown is 3.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 21 mm to 159 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Freetown climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 9.9 | 2.3 | 11.712 h |
| February | 27.5°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 6.0 | 1.4 | 11.912 h |
| March | 27.5°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 8.7 | 2.4 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 27.7°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 21 | 5.2 | 12.312 h |
| May | 27.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 159 | 21.4 | 12.513 h |
| June | 27.2°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 397 | 29.1 | 12.613 h |
| July | 26.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 683 | 30.2 | 12.613 h |
| August | 25.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 751 | 29.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 26.4°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 479 | 28.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 27.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 232 | 28.1 | 11.912 h |
| November | 27.8°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 98 | 20.6 | 11.712 h |
| December | 28.1°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 27 | 7.4 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Conakry in AprilGuinea · 127 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.0°C · 4.5 mm rain
- Makeni in AprilSierra Leone · 138 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 24.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Manéah in AprilGuinea · 140 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 24.2°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Dubréka in AprilGuinea · 148 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 24.4°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Bo in AprilSierra Leone · 175 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 23.6°C · 120 mm rain
- Kindia in AprilGuinea · 179 kmHigh 35.5°C · Low 22.5°C · 18 mm rain
- Kenema in AprilSierra Leone · 235 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.6°C · 114 mm rain
- Mamou in AprilGuinea · 245 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 21.7°C · 42 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 Freetown) is explained once on the Freetown year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.