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Freetown weather

Western Area · 802,639 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:07

Raining now Air: Fair High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

29°

Mainly clear

Feels like 40°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

78 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

41 %

Storm

Rise 06:41 Set 18:31 Day 11 h 50 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

29°27°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ W 8 km/h

Humidity 78 %

💧 1.3 mm

⚡ storm

21:00

27°

1.2mm

W 6

Freetown 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)

Freetown climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 3,130 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 27 °C in August to 30 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 24 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 59% of the annual total; August by itself averages 700 mm.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 28 °C, against a usual 28 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	24 °C	16 mm
Feb	30 °C	25 °C	10 mm
Mar	30 °C	25 °C	22 mm
Apr	30 °C	26 °C	54 mm
May	29 °C	25 °C	248 mm
Jun	28 °C	24 °C	433 mm
Jul	27 °C	24 °C	616 mm
Aug	27 °C	24 °C	700 mm
Sep	28 °C	24 °C	527 mm
Oct	28 °C	24 °C	306 mm
Nov	29 °C	24 °C	151 mm
Dec	29 °C	25 °C	44 mm
Whole year	29 °C	24 °C	3,130 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.49° N, 13.24° 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 Freetown: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.515µg/m³

PM1031µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Freetown

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Freetown, 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 Freetown yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Freetown

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 09:35 Set 22:53

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/Freetown); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Freetown

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

Freetown weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Freetown, Western Area: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 29 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 29 °C and around 1 mm of rain; 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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