The most accessible entry to West Africa: Atlantic surf beaches, Ashanti gold country and a hard colonial history. Ghana barely has a temperature season: daytime highs move only about 4 °C across the whole year, from 27 °C in August to 31 °C in February. What changes instead is rain.
Measured against a beach trip, the conditions hold up December to March. January is the most consistent single month: highs near 31 °C, nights around 24 °C, and roughly 46 mm of rain across the month.
The binding constraint here is rainfall — that is what rules months out, not any composite judgement. Rainfall is sharply seasonal: June averages 204 mm against 43 mm in December, so the wet season is the real planning constraint rather than heat or cold. April is the weakest month on these criteria.
What Ghana is known for
- Cape Coast and Elmina castles are UNESCO World Heritage sites and central to Atlantic slave trade memory
- Elmina Castle, built by the Portuguese in 1482, is the oldest European building south of the Sahara
- Kakum National Park has a canopy walkway strung 30 m above the rainforest floor
- Kumasi is the Ashanti capital; its kente weaving and adinkra symbols are national emblems
- The Harmattan blows Saharan dust south from December, hazing the sky and dropping humidity
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 24 | 46 | 11.2 |
| February | 31 | 25 | 56 | 12.9 |
| March | 31 | 25 | 67 | 18.5 |
| April | 31 | 25 | 109 | 19.9 |
| May | 29 | 24 | 194 | 25.5 |
| June | 28 | 24 | 204 | 26.5 |
| July | 27 | 23 | 129 | 22.5 |
| August | 27 | 23 | 75 | 20.6 |
| September | 28 | 23 | 107 | 24.2 |
| October | 28 | 24 | 142 | 26.0 |
| November | 29 | 24 | 94 | 21.8 |
| December | 30 | 24 | 43 | 15.3 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a beach trip is met across at least half the month.
By trip type
| Beach | December to March |
| City | July to August |
Each row applies that trip type's own hard limits to the same climate data.
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Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Accra, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kumasi and Busua, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.