Climate and average weather in Effiduase

In Effiduase, the weather is humid, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Effiduase typically varies from 22°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Effiduase for warm-weather activities are from early July to late August and early November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
141 mm
Driest
Jan
20 mm
Rain / yr
1052 mm
190 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
328 m
6.8°N
Clearest
Jan
45% cloud

Effiduase is town and district capital in Ghana.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Effiduase weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Effiduase, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Effiduase stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3322
Feb3424
Mar3324
Apr3224
May3123
Jun2923
Jul2822
Aug2822
Sep2922
Oct3023
Nov3122
Dec3122

How hot and cold Effiduase really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Effiduase feels like about 38°C (around March 12). About 281 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34332222
Feb37342424
Mar37332424
Apr37322424
May35312323
Jun33292323
Jul31282222
Aug30282222
Sep32292222
Oct33302223
Nov35312222
Dec34312222

Average hourly temperature in Effiduase

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Effiduase weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 22°203.911.64.3
Feb34° / 24°42811.83.2
Mar33° / 24°9917.2122.8
Apr32° / 24°1031812.13.0
May31° / 23°1172012.33.3
Jun29° / 23°13122.212.43.6
Jul28° / 22°10619.312.44.4
Aug28° / 22°9217.912.24.6
Sep29° / 22°14123.9123.6
Oct30° / 23°1212211.83.6
Nov31° / 22°6012.611.74.3
Dec31° / 22°224.911.65.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Effiduase gets about 1052 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.9 months, from around Mar 10 to Nov 5, peaking in September at about 80% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 141 mm over about 24 wet days; January is the driest, with 20 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 26 · 80%Dec 29 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb298
Mar5417
Apr6018
May6520
Jun7322
Jul6319
Aug6018
Sep7724
Oct7022
Nov4213
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Effiduase collects about 1052 mm of rain across 190 wet days — roughly 88 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 141 mm, while January is the driest at just 20 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec204299103117131106921411216022
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan204
Feb428
Mar9917
Apr10318
May11720
Jun13122
Jul10619
Aug9218
Sep14124
Oct12122
Nov6013
Dec225

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Effiduase, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around March 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 17 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around October 13. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 27 · 78%Jul 28 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb5644
Mar3466
Apr2476
May2080
Jun1585
Jul793
Aug694
Sep1387
Oct3367
Nov5149
Dec7129

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 27, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:266:04
Feb11.86:276:13
Mar12.06:176:14
Apr12.16:016:10
May12.35:526:11
Jun12.45:546:18
Jul12.46:006:22
Aug12.26:036:16
Sep12.05:596:01
Oct11.85:555:46
Nov11.76:005:41
Dec11.66:145:50

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Effiduase averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Nov 7 to Mar 8. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 3017 daysJul 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec14Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Effiduase, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.6 months, from around February 24 to December 11. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 12 to February 23, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 22% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 11 · 25%Mar 19 · 0%miserableoppressivehumidmuggydrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1471227400
Feb54623620
Mar0026884
Apr0000919
May0000955
Jun0003961
Jul00024760
Aug00034660
Sep0008920
Oct0001990
Nov0006931
Dec43723630

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Effiduase is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Feb 15 to Sep 11. The windiest month is August, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 12 to Feb 14, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 3 · 10 km/hOct 31 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Effiduase

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Effiduase sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Effiduase

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Effiduase throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid November, Effiduase is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Effiduase for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late August and again from early November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 5.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.3fair
Feb3.2poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr3.0poor
May3.3poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.3fair
Dec5.0fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Effiduase for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 7.8

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Effiduase, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Effiduase packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Effiduase sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Effiduase by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Effiduase peaks around April 13 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 13UV 13Dec 19UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Effiduase

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74

Air quality in Effiduase by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Effiduase is worst in January — around 122 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.6× the cleanest month (August, 22 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 17118 µg/m³Aug 1222 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan122Unhealthy
Feb97Unhealthy
Mar48Poor
Apr43Poor
May28Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov42Poor
Dec90Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Effiduase is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Effiduase banks about 6,117 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan542
Feb525
Mar573
Apr539
May535
Jun481
Jul471
Aug466
Sep469
Oct501
Nov497
Dec518

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Effiduase receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Nov 30 to May 24. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 125.5 kWhAug 23.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Effiduase?

Effiduase sits at 6.8°N, 1.4°W, 328 m above sea level, in Ghana. The nearest listed city is Ahwiaa, 24 km away.

Bekwai

Topography around Effiduase

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Effiduase.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Effiduase has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 61 m around an average of 328 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 416 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 712 m.

The land around Effiduase is covered by trees (64%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, trees (83%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) within 80 km.

3 km
61 m
16 km
416 m
80 km
712 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Ahwiaa 24 km · Mampong 24 km · Tafo 27 km · New Tafo 28 km · Kumasi 31 km · Konongo 32 km · Agogo 35 km · Bekwai 48 km

Ghana travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,257
2025
Happiness
4.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
43%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.8
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
25.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 540
Religion
Christian 71%Muslim 20%other 5%traditionalist 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Effiduase (6.8468°, -1.3961°, elevation 328 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).