Climate and average weather in Winneba

In Winneba, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: mid July to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Winneba typically varies from 23°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 29°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Winneba for warm-weather activities are from early January to early March and mid July to mid October.

Hottest
Mar
28°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Jun
203 mm
Driest
Jan
15 mm
Rain / yr
744 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
25 m
5.4°N
Clearest
Dec
37% cloud

Winneba is town in Central Region, Ghana.

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

Winneba 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 mid July to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Winneba stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 28°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 1°C warmer than nights year-round.

18°20°22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2726
Feb2826
Mar2827
Apr2827
May2826
Jun2625
Jul2524
Aug2423
Sep2524
Oct2625
Nov2826
Dec2826

How hot and cold Winneba 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, Winneba feels like about 34°C (around March 12). About 115 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31272626
Feb33282626
Mar34282727
Apr34282727
May32282626
Jun27262525
Jul25252424
Aug24242323
Sep25252424
Oct26262525
Nov31282626
Dec32282626

Average hourly temperature in Winneba

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 March afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Winneba 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
Jan27° / 26°154.511.77.5
Feb28° / 26°185.411.87.1
Mar28° / 27°318.9126.0
Apr28° / 27°591412.15.3
May28° / 26°15223.912.24.3
Jun26° / 25°20322.412.34.6
Jul25° / 24°7110.612.36.6
Aug24° / 23°224.912.27.6
Sep25° / 24°378.8127.0
Oct26° / 25°641511.96.1
Nov28° / 26°4914.311.86.0
Dec28° / 26°268.611.77.0

Chance of rain

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

Winneba gets about 744 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.2 months, from around Apr 7 to Jul 11, peaking in May at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 1.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 203 mm over about 22 wet days; January is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 30 · 82%Feb 1 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb195
Mar309
Apr4714
May7624
Jun7422
Jul3511
Aug175
Sep309
Oct4715
Nov4814
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Winneba collects about 744 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 62 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 203 mm, while January is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15183159152203712237644926
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan155
Feb185
Mar319
Apr5914
May15224
Jun20322
Jul7111
Aug225
Sep379
Oct6415
Nov4914
Dec269

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Winneba, 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 September 19 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around March 10. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 11 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around September 18. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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 22 · 81%May 31 · 26%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6238
Mar5050
Apr4456
May3466
Jun3466
Jul3763
Aug4060
Sep5248
Oct6337
Nov7327
Dec7822

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. Close to the equator, Winneba barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:206:03
Feb11.86:226:12
Mar12.06:136:11
Apr12.15:596:06
May12.25:516:06
Jun12.35:536:12
Jul12.36:006:17
Aug12.26:016:12
Sep12.05:565:58
Oct11.95:515:44
Nov11.85:555:40
Dec11.76:085:49

Sunny days

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

Winneba averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Sep 25 to Mar 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 5 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2320 daysJun 14 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb12Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov15Bright
Dec19Bright

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.

Winneba is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan42868
Feb01090
Mar0496
Apr0694
May03664
Jun0927
Jul3970
Aug4960
Sep01000
Oct0955
Nov06931
Dec14158

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 Winneba is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.8 months, from around Feb 1 to Apr 25. The windiest month is March, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 14 to Jan 31, with November the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyMar 8 · 18 km/hNov 10 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar18light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul18light breeze
Aug18light breeze
Sep17light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Winneba

In seasonPeak

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

Winneba's monsoon runs May–June, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

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

Best time to visit Winneba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Winneba is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Winneba for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to mid October and again from late November to early March, with a peak score in the second week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 9 · 7.7

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
Jan7.5good
Feb7.1good
Mar6.0good
Apr5.3fair
May4.3fair
Jun4.6fair
Jul6.6good
Aug7.6ideal
Sep7.0good
Oct6.1good
Nov6.0good
Dec7.0good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Winneba for hot-weather activities run from late July to early September and again from late November to mid April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 2 · 7.9

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 Winneba, 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.

Winneba packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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 March, Winneba sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Winneba

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in May at about 28°C and coldest in August near 23°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

22°24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr28Tropical
May28Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul24Warm
Aug23Refreshing
Sep24Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov28Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Winneba 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 Winneba peaks around March 22 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeVery highMar 22UV 13Dec 17UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Winneba

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan75
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov7.55
Dec74.5

Air quality in Winneba 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 Winneba is worst in January — around 67 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.6× the cleanest month (October, 12 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorJan 1865 µg/m³Oct 1012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan67Unhealthy
Feb54Poor
Mar30Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep12Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov17Moderate
Dec49Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Winneba 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. Winneba banks about 5,856 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan518
Feb478
Mar539
Apr519
May523
Jun470
Jul445
Aug421
Sep430
Oct483
Nov502
Dec529

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.

Winneba receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Dec 31 to May 12. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 26.2 kWhJun 134.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May5.4Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Winneba?

Winneba sits at 5.4°N, 0.6°W, 25 m above sea level, in Ghana. The nearest listed city is Apam, 15 km away.

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Topography around Winneba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Winneba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 11 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 270 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 765 m.

The land around Winneba is covered by grassland (32%), water (27%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, water (45%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and water (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
270 m
80 km
765 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Apam 15 km · Swedru 22 km · Buduburam 25 km · Kasoa 31 km · Amanfrom 32 km · Mandela 39 km · Gbawe 43 km · Mankesim 44 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 Winneba (5.3511°, -0.6231°, elevation 25 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).