According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Sierra Leone is April to May and October to November. Plan 7–14 days.
Best months for Sierra Leone
- Best months
- April to May and October to November
- How long to stay
- 7–14 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Sierra Leone is best for
Unspoiled peninsula beaches, Tacugama chimp sanctuary, and sobering slave trade history on Bunce Island.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Sierra Leone by month
Monthly averages around Freetown; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 26 °C | little rain (0 mm) |
| February | about 27 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| March | about 28 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| April best | about 28 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| May best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (132 mm) |
| June | about 26 °C | a lot of rain (399 mm) |
| July | about 25 °C | a lot of rain (624 mm) |
| August | about 25 °C | a lot of rain (678 mm) |
| September | about 26 °C | a lot of rain (399 mm) |
| October best | about 26 °C | a lot of rain (180 mm) |
| November best | about 26 °C | some rain (72 mm) |
| December | about 26 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Sierra Leone
- Capital
- Freetown
- Language
- English
- Currency
- Sierra Leonean Leone (SLE)
- Time
- UTC+0
- Plugs
- Type G · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +232
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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