Conakry
Capital of Guinea: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Un aperçu de la ville de conakry: Alpha hmd, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Conakry is the capital of Guinea. About 1.9 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Guinea in our atlas.
It lies at 9.54° N, 13.68° W, about 13 m (43 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Conakry time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Conakry. Green dots: other major cities of Guinea. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Conakry has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Jan, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 24°C (76°F). Around 2,895 mm (114 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in GuineaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Camayenne · 1 km
- Dixinn · 2 km
- Dubréka · 33 km
- Manéah · 36 km
- Kindia · 106 km
- Kankan · 488 km
- Siguiri · 536 km
- Nzérékoré · 568 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2422465 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q3733 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Un aperçu de la ville de conakry: Alpha hmd, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pont 8 Novembre: Boubacar Bila Diao Balde, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Camayenne, jardin botanique - btv1b53207132p: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Madina 2: Thie Abdoul, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MercadodeSanJuandeDios: Christian Frausto Bernal from Tepic, Nayarit, MEXICO, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
