Climate averages 1991–2020
Freetown weather
in June.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a warm month in Freetown: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 397 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes June a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Conakry (127 km away). In June its highs average 28.1°C, 0.9°C warmer than Freetown, with 358 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Sierra Leone, Freetown ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest June highs and 5th of 5 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 5 cities is 28.5°C; Freetown is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From June to July, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 397 mm to 683 mm.
The annual picture
June 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 | 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, selected | 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
June in nearby cities
- Conakry in JuneGuinea · 127 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 358 mm rain
- Makeni in JuneSierra Leone · 138 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.0°C · 306 mm rain
- Manéah in JuneGuinea · 140 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 23.8°C · 301 mm rain
- Dubréka in JuneGuinea · 148 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.1°C · 301 mm rain
- Bo in JuneSierra Leone · 175 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.4°C · 333 mm rain
- Kindia in JuneGuinea · 179 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.2°C · 219 mm rain
- Kenema in JuneSierra Leone · 235 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.4°C · 287 mm rain
- Mamou in JuneGuinea · 245 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.8°C · 282 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.