Freetown, Sierra Leone Weather Radar

About Freetown weather

Freetown is in Sierra Leone at 8.49°, -13.24°. Right now it’s 29° and mostly cloudy; today’s high is 29° with a 65% chance of rain.

Sierra Leone has a tropical monsoon climate with one of the wettest rainy seasons in West Africa. Freetown, the capital, receives an extraordinary 3,600mm of rainfall annually, with August alone averaging over 800mm as the monsoon reaches peak intensity. The mountainous Freetown Peninsula, rising steeply from the Atlantic coast, forces moist maritime air upward and amplifies rainfall through orographic effects.