Accra weather by month
The best time to visit Accra is July, August and November — 74/100 in August, 29°C and 17 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, November to April (68/100 on average).
The worst month is June at 63/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See June →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Ghana →
Best season: November to April (68/100 on average) · worst June (63/100)
- Days
- 29°C
- Nights
- 24°C
- Wet days
- 17
- Sun
- 9.4 h
- Humidity
- 86%
- Daylight
- 12 h

Accra, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Accra 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 Accra through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- March
- Ghana Independence Day6 MarHoliday
- Easter weekend3–6 AprHoliday
- May
- The main rains1 May – 30 Jun (usually)Season
- August
- Homowo1 Aug – 10 Sep (usually)Festival
- Chale Wote Street Art Festival5–27 Aug (usually)Festival
- December
- December in Accra15 Dec – 5 JanHoliday
- Harmattan haze5 Dec – 10 Feb (usually)Season
Crowds in Accra 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.
BusyChale Wote Street Art Festival, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Accra
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Customs & etiquette
A traveler exploring Jamestown, one of Accra's oldest districts and still a working fishing harbor dating to the 17th century around James Fort, describes early mornings there as genuinely spectacular - fishermen returning with the day's catch in traditional wooden canoes, a scene that's continued largely unchanged for generations despite the neighborhood's visible poverty. She describes the community as dense, colorful and energetic, with vibrant street art and murals covering many buildings alongside a genuine, unpolished daily life happening around visitors rather than a performance staged for them. Other visitors specifically recommend joining a local guided tour rather than wandering independently, both to better understand the area's layered history and because a local connection changes how comfortably you're received in what's still a real, lived-in working community rather than a tourist attraction. Posters generally rate an early-morning Jamestown visit, timed to catch the fishing boats coming in, as one of the more authentic, unfiltered experiences available in Accra.
Traveller notes on Accra
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters generally name January through March, alongside September through December, as favorable weather windows for Ghana, with the main rainy season running roughly March or April through August. Posters flag the December-January Harmattan winds as a distinct feature of the earlier part of this dry stretch, bringing dry, dusty conditions from the Sahara, though by February that effect should be easing. Posters discussing nearby Cape Coast note a February-March visit felt extremely hot, suggesting heat rather than rain is the more relevant discomfort factor for this window along Ghana's coast. Posters generally rate February as one of the better, drier months to visit Accra, with heat and humidity the main planning consideration rather than rain.
August sits at the end of Ghana's rainy season — roughly March or April through August — and the forum's framing is that you will likely get rain at some point on most days, but it is neither constant nor torrential. The record backs the frequency: about sixteen wet days. Temperatures barely move, near 27°C by day and 23 overnight, with humidity the forum puts at 70–80%, and the thermometer drops only three or four degrees around a downpour. You will not be sunbathing much. The dry, dusty harmattan that defines northern Ghana's winter runs December to March — the opposite end of the year entirely.
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