Ideal weather days in Abidjan
The best time to visit Abidjan for warm, dry weather is July to September and December to March, with 21 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Abidjan's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July to September and December to March.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Abidjan, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet107
- Too hot16
- Too windy1
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Abidjan averaged 243 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Côte d’Ivoire, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December to March (up to 24 a month, 153 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 1.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 107 a year, mostly in May, June and October. Another 16 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in April and December. A day can fail more than one test.
Abidjan weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 5 | 0 | 5 | 26 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 90 °F | 4 | 0 | 6 | 22 of 28 |
| March | 32 °C 90 °F | 7 | 0 | 2 | 25 of 31 |
| April | 32 °C 90 °F | 12 | 1 | 1 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 32 °C 90 °F | 15 | 0 | 0 | 17 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 85 °F | 21 | 0 | 0 | 9 of 30 |
| July | 28 °C 82 °F | 9 | 0 | 0 | 24 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 8 | 0 | 0 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 86 °F | 19 | 0 | 0 | 14 of 31 |
| November | 31 °C 88 °F | 12 | 0 | 0 | 18 of 30 |
| December | 32 °C 90 °F | 5 | 0 | 6 | 21 of 31 |
| Year | 126 | 1 | 21 | 243 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 222 warm, dry days
- 2024 238 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Abidjan for good weather?
The best time to visit Abidjan for warm, dry weather is July to September and December to March, with 21 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December to March (up to 24 a month, 153 a year). Counted from measured days at Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Abidjan?
On average 126 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (21 rain days), the driest February (4).
How many sunny days does Abidjan get a year?
About 21 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in December (6).
How warm does Abidjan get?
The median daily high ranged from 28 °C (82 °F) in August to 32 °C (90 °F) in January.
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Source: Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny International weather station (65578099999), 14 km from the centre of Abidjan, 6 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.