Freetown
Capital of Sierra Leone: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Freetown-aerialview: David Hond, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone, in Western Area. About 802,639 people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Sierra Leone in our atlas.
It lies at 8.49° N, 13.24° W, about 38 m (125 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Freetown time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Freetown. Green dots: other major cities of Sierra Leone. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Freetown has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 31°C (88°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 22°C (72°F). Around 2,569 mm (101 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 Sierra LeoneNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Waterloo · 24 km
- Port Loko · 58 km
- Lunsar · 80 km
- Njala · 137 km
- Makeni · 138 km
- Bo · 174 km
- Kenema · 235 km
- Koidu · 249 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2409306 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q3780 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Freetown-aerialview: David Hond, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sierra Leone National Stadium: Dorothy Voorhees, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- National Museum of Sierra Leone at Cotton tree in Freetown - Mapillary (Yp2BPDsT7TyNtrN6lZ4z9Q): danbjoseph @ Mapillary.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Freetown Railway Museum: User: (WT-shared) Davidbstanley at wts wikivoyage, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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