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Greater Accra · 1,963,264 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:50

Raining now Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

28°

Rain showers

Feels like 41°C

Wind

17 km/h

Gusts

19 km/h

Humidity

84 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

7 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:46 Set 17:42 Day 11 h 56 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

28°27°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ SSW 17 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 0.7 mm

⚡ storm

18:00

28°

0.2mm

SW 17

21:00

27°

0.5mm

SSW 14

Accra forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Accra climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to May; the typical peak is 33 °C in March.

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 26 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 48 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	24 °C	28 mm
Feb	33 °C	25 °C	38 mm
Mar	33 °C	26 °C	57 mm
Apr	33 °C	25 °C	68 mm
May	31 °C	25 °C	115 mm
Jun	29 °C	24 °C	159 mm
Jul	28 °C	23 °C	90 mm
Aug	28 °C	23 °C	63 mm
Sep	29 °C	24 °C	102 mm
Oct	30 °C	24 °C	103 mm
Nov	32 °C	24 °C	58 mm
Dec	32 °C	24 °C	35 mm
Whole year	31 °C	24 °C	910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.56° N, 0.20° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Accra: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.56µg/m³

PM109µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Accra

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Accra, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Accra yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Accra

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 08:47 Set 21:52

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Accra); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Accra

Curious about the weather in Accra on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Accra weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Accra, Greater Accra: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 28 °C (feels like 41 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 29 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations