Ivory Coast
23 cities
Climate overview
Côte d'Ivoire stretches from about 4° to 11°N along West Africa with an Atlantic coast, mostly a low plateau of savanna and forest rising gradually to almost 500 m in the north, with the Nimba massif on the Liberian–Guinean border (Mt Nimba 1,752 m, the country's highest peak); the climate is mostly tropical savanna (Aw), with tropical monsoon (Am) conditions in the forest region bordering Liberia, running from the wetter south (Abidjan, San-Pédro) through the central forest–savanna mosaic (Yamoussoukro, Bouaké) to the drier far north (Korhogo, Ferkessédougou).
Abidjan has highs of 28–32°C and nights of 22–25°C year-round with about 1,700 mm rain split between a long wet season April–July and a short Oct–Nov peak; the southwestern coast (Tabou) is wetter still with about 2,300 mm; the central forest–savanna transition (Bouaké) sees ~1,100 mm in a rainy season running Apr–Oct; the dry north receives 1,200 mm with a sharp Nov–Mar dry season dominated by the harmattan dust haze. The West African monsoon and ITCZ migration drive the rainfall regime; coastal erosion is severe along Grand-Bassam–Port-Bouët.
Our archive covers 23 Ivorian cities with daily ERA5 reanalysis data going back to 1940. Comparing the last decade against the 1940–1970 baseline, mean temperatures across these cities have risen by about 1.4°C.
How the climate has shifted in the Ivory Coast
Average across 23 cities with full ERA5 coverage: 1940–1970 baseline vs the last decade (2016–2025).
- Annual mean temperature
- 25.2°C→26.5°C
- Days above 30°C per year
- 135 days→216 days+81
- Frost days per year
- 0 days→0 days+0
- Tropical nights (≥20°C) per year
- 347 nights→352 nights+4
Warmest year in the record so far: 2024.
What's unusual right now
From a snapshot of the world's largest cities updated each hour. Today's mean temperature compared with each city's long-term average for the same calendar date (ERA5 climatology, 1940 onward). Last 30 days uses each city's rolling daily-mean vs its monthly average. Not a global ranking.