Climate and average weather in Ganta

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

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ganta typically varies from 21°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 35°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 Ganta for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and late November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
274 mm
Driest
Jan
16 mm
Rain / yr
1531 mm
220 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
282 m
7.2°N
Clearest
Jan
46% cloud

Ganta 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 late November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ganta stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3221
Feb3323
Mar3223
Apr3123
May3023
Jun2922
Jul2822
Aug2722
Sep2822
Oct2922
Nov3022
Dec3021

How hot and cold Ganta 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, Ganta feels like about 36°C (around March 3). About 254 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33322121
Feb35332323
Mar36322323
Apr35312323
May34302323
Jun32292222
Jul30282222
Aug30272222
Sep31282222
Oct33292222
Nov33302222
Dec32302121

Average hourly temperature in Ganta

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Ganta 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
Jan32° / 21°16411.64.9
Feb33° / 23°365.911.83.9
Mar32° / 23°8314.5123.4
Apr31° / 23°10918.112.23.3
May30° / 23°15823.712.33.2
Jun29° / 22°19325.712.43.4
Jul28° / 22°17825.212.44.0
Aug27° / 22°24026.112.23.9
Sep28° / 22°27427.8123.3
Oct29° / 22°15626.911.83.3
Nov30° / 22°6816.911.74.3
Dec30° / 21°20511.65.6

Chance of rain

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

Ganta gets about 1531 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 7.0 months, from around Apr 15 to Nov 12, peaking in September at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 31.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 274 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 16 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 17 · 93%Dec 31 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb226
Mar4515
Apr6118
May7624
Jun8526
Jul8225
Aug8426
Sep9228
Oct8627
Nov5517
Dec185

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ganta collects about 1531 mm of rain across 220 wet days — roughly 128 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 274 mm, while January is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1636831091581931782402741566820
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan164
Feb366
Mar8315
Apr10918
May15824
Jun19326
Jul17825
Aug24026
Sep27428
Oct15627
Nov6817
Dec205

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ganta, 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 19 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around March 17. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 18 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around October 18. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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 29 · 71%Aug 10 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb5248
Mar3070
Apr1288
May991
Jun1189
Jul595
Aug496
Sep1288
Oct2575
Nov3961
Dec6337

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 21, 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)
Jan11.66:576:34
Feb11.86:586:43
Mar12.06:476:44
Apr12.26:316:41
May12.36:226:42
Jun12.46:246:49
Jul12.46:306:53
Aug12.26:336:47
Sep12.06:296:31
Oct11.86:266:16
Nov11.76:316:11
Dec11.66:456:20

Sunny days

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

Ganta averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Nov 22 to Mar 12. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the January peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightJan 315 daysJun 210 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar3Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec10Mixed

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.

Ganta 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 March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 99% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 14% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 17%Mar 6 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggydrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan871736320
Feb231031530
Mar00113870
Apr0001972
May0000981
Jun0005950
Jul00031690
Aug00028720
Sep0006940
Oct0002980
Nov0005941
Dec24729580

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 Ganta is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around Jun 12 to Sep 16. The windiest month is August, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 17 to Jan 22, with November the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 9 · 8 km/hNov 1 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug8calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ganta

In seasonPeak

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

Ganta's rainy season runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ganta sees seasonal dust haze (April), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Ganta

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Ganta 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 time of year to visit Ganta for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 21 · 5.7

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
Jan4.9fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr3.3poor
May3.2poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov4.3fair
Dec5.5good

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 Ganta for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 8.0

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 Ganta, 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.

Ganta packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ganta sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ganta 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 Ganta peaks around March 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 18UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ganta

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 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)
Jan7.55
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ganta 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 Ganta is worst in March — around 88 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.7× the cleanest month (August, 9 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateGoodModeratePoorMar 1286 µg/m³Aug 239 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan55Poor
Feb79Unhealthy
Mar88Unhealthy
Apr56Unhealthy
May24Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug9Good
Sep9Good
Oct15Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec41Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ganta 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. Ganta banks about 5,836 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)
Jan508
Feb495
Mar547
Apr513
May513
Jun466
Jul454
Aug449
Sep453
Oct485
Nov471
Dec481

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.

Ganta receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.3 and 5.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Dec 1 to May 24. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.4 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the February peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightFeb 45.2 kWhAug 43.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar4.9Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul3.5Moderate
Aug3.4Moderate
Sep4.0Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Ganta?

Ganta sits at 7.2°N, 9.0°W, 282 m above sea level, in Liberia. The nearest listed city is Sanniquellie, 33 km away.

SanniquellieSaclepeaGbarngaNzérékoréNew YekepaLolaDananéZouan-Hounien

Topography around Ganta

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ganta has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 94 m around an average of 281 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 453 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,541 m.

The land around Ganta is covered by trees (48%), artificial surfaces (26%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, trees (90%) within 16 km, and trees (96%) within 80 km.

3 km
94 m
16 km
453 m
80 km
1,541 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Sanniquellie 33 km · Saclepea 34 km · Gbarnga 60 km · Nzérékoré 61 km · New Yekepa 62 km · Lola 80 km · Danané 92 km · Zouan-Hounien 93 km

Liberia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 0% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$915
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
3.1
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
38.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Christian 85%Muslim 12%none 3%Traditional 1%

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 Ganta (7.235°, -8.9844°, elevation 282 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).