Abidjan weather by month
The best time to visit Abidjan is January, July and August — 74/100 in August, 28°C and 22 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, December to April (64/100 on average).
The worst month is June at 50/100 — sweltering, soaked, muggy air. See June →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Best season: December to April (64/100 on average) · worst June (50/100)
- Days
- 28°C
- Nights
- 23°C
- Wet days
- 22
- Sun
- 8.7 h
- Humidity
- 86%
- Daylight
- 12 h

Abidjan, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Abidjan is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Abidjan through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- March
- Paquinou Easter exodus3–5 AprHoliday
- April
- MASA performing-arts biennial5–20 Apr (usually)Festival
- May
- Rainy-season flash floods15 May – 15 Jul (usually)Hazard
- August
- Fete de l'Independance7 AugHoliday
- Petite saison seche1 Aug – 20 Sep (usually)Season
- October
- Abissa in Grand-Bassam20 Oct – 10 Nov (usually)Festival
- December
- Harmattan haze10 Dec – 15 Feb (usually)Season
Crowds in Abidjan in August
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusyFete de l'Independance, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Abidjan
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Customs & etiquette
A beginner's guide to Abidjan flags that most nationalities, Americans included, need a visa arranged in advance through Ivory Coast's official e-visa portal, with prices starting around $70, so this isn't a spontaneous visa-on-arrival destination. The same guide notes that Abidjanians can come across as reserved or stand-offish to a first-time visitor, more so than in many other West African capitals, which isn't unfriendliness so much as a cultural inheritance from the French colonial period, and their safety advice for evenings was simply to have accommodation arrange a taxi rather than walk between neighborhoods after dark.
Traveller notes on Abidjan
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Detailed February-specific weather trip reports for Abidjan are limited on the forum, with more discussion focused on the wider Ivory Coast rainy season generally than granular monthly detail. Given the thin destination-specific coverage, this note leans on the well-established regional pattern for Abidjan's coastal, equatorial-adjacent climate: the country runs two rainy seasons, with a shorter, drier stretch typically falling around December through February - meaning February should sit toward the drier, if still warm and humid, end of that cycle compared to the heavier main rains later in spring. Posters generally describe Ivory Coast's climate as consistently hot and humid year-round regardless of the specific rain pattern in play.
Forum posters name May and June as the peak of Ivory Coast's rainy season, implying August should sit in a comparatively calmer stretch as the heaviest rains ease off, consistent with the region's typical shorter dry spell mid-year before rains pick up again later. Given how few detailed trip reports exist for Abidjan's August weather specifically, this regional seasonal pattern - August generally quieter on rainfall than the May-June peak - is the most useful guide available. Posters' practical discussion of Abidjan tends to focus more on safety and logistics than granular weather, reflecting how few detailed independent trip reports exist for this destination.
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