Climate averages 1991–2020
Freetown weather
in October.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Freetown: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 232 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Conakry (127 km away). In October its highs average 28.3°C, 1.1°C warmer than Freetown, with 225 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Sierra Leone, Freetown ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest October highs and 2nd of 5 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 5 cities is 28.4°C; Freetown is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 232 mm to 98 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Conakry in OctoberGuinea · 127 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 225 mm rain
- Makeni in OctoberSierra Leone · 138 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 294 mm rain
- Manéah in OctoberGuinea · 140 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 214 mm rain
- Dubréka in OctoberGuinea · 148 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 214 mm rain
- Bo in OctoberSierra Leone · 175 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.1°C · 245 mm rain
- Kindia in OctoberGuinea · 179 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.5°C · 131 mm rain
- Kenema in OctoberSierra Leone · 235 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.1°C · 227 mm rain
- Mamou in OctoberGuinea · 245 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.1°C · 199 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.