The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Freetown has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Freetown Lungi station 15 km away. Updated through July 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Freetown
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
105°FMar 15, 1995
The three most extreme on record
1105°FMar 15, 1995
2103°FFeb 22, 2003
3102°FMay 25, 2010
❄️Coldest night
54°FOct 12, 1996
The three most extreme on record
154°FOct 12, 1996
263°FDec 30, 1995
363°FJan 22, 2009
🌧️Most rain in one day
17.76 inNov 30, 2007
The three most extreme on record
117.76 inNov 30, 2007
212.99 inJun 22, 2012
39.41 inSep 18, 2022
In plain terms
In a normal year, Freetown's warmest days reach the high 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 70s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 105°F and as low as 54°F. A single day has delivered over 18 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Conakry / Ahmed Sekou Toure Intl, a weather station, about 128 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.