Port Loko
City in Sierra Leone: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Inspecting waste to wealth project in Port loko: Gabriel Rockwell, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Port Loko is a city in Sierra Leone, in North West. About 44,900 people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of Sierra Leone in our atlas.
It lies at 8.77° N, 12.79° W, about 51 m (167 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Freetown time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Port Loko. Green dots: other major cities of Sierra Leone. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Port Loko has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Mar, with average highs near 36°C (97°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 19°C (66°F). Around 2,435 mm (96 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.
What to eat in Sierra LeoneNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Lunsar · 29 km
- Waterloo · 57 km
- Freetown · 58 km
- Makeni · 83 km
- Njala · 103 km
- Bo · 145 km
- Koidu · 200 km
- Kenema · 201 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2404433 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1635196 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Inspecting waste to wealth project in Port loko: Gabriel Rockwell, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)