Africa

Western Africa

17 countries and territories in Western Africa.

Photo: Ovinuchi Prince Ejiohuo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On the map

The countries of Western Africa

Countries

The countries of Western Africa

Countries of Western Africa: capital, currency, plugs, driving side and calling code
Country	Capital	Currency	Plugs	Driving	Calling code
Benin	Porto-Novo	XOF	C E	Right	+229
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	XOF	C E	Right	+226
Cape Verde	Praia	CVE	C F	Right	+238
Côte d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	XOF	C E	Right	+225
Gambia	Banjul	GMD	G	Right	+220
Ghana	Accra	GHS	G	Right	+233
Guinea	Conakry	GNF	C F K	Right	+224
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	XOF	C	Right	+245
Liberia	Monrovia	LRD	A B C E F	Right	+231
Mali	Bamako	XOF	C E	Right	+223
Mauritania	Nouakchott	MRU	C	Right	+222
Niger	Niamey	XOF	A B C E F	Right	+227
Nigeria	Abuja	NGN	D G	Right	+234
Senegal	Dakar	XOF	C E K	Right	+221
Sierra Leone	Freetown	SLE	G	Right	+232
St Helena	Jamestown	SHP	—	Left	+290
Togo	Lomé	XOF	C	Right	+228

When to go

The capitals' weather, month by month

Each country's capital as GeoNames records it (or its largest city where the capital has no figures), mean daily high by month.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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Mean daily high in each capital by month, with what the month is like
Country	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
BeninPorto-Novo	30°	30°	30°	29°	29°	28°	27°	27°	27°	28°	29°	30°
Burkina FasoOuagadougou	32°	36°	39°	40°	38°	35°	32°	31°	31°	34°	34°	32°
Cape VerdePraia	24°	23°	23°	24°	24°	25°	26°	27°	28°	28°	27°	25°
Côte d’IvoireYamoussoukro	35°	35°	33°	32°	31°	29°	29°	30°	30°	30°	31°	33°
GambiaBanjul	27°	27°	27°	26°	27°	28°	28°	28°	29°	30°	30°	28°
GhanaAccra	30°	30°	30°	29°	29°	27°	26°	26°	27°	28°	29°	30°
GuineaConakry	30°	30°	30°	30°	29°	28°	27°	27°	27°	28°	29°	30°
Guinea-BissauBissau	29°	32°	35°	36°	35°	32°	29°	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°
LiberiaMonrovia	31°	31°	31°	31°	30°	29°	28°	27°	28°	28°	29°	30°
MaliBamako	33°	36°	39°	40°	39°	35°	31°	29°	30°	33°	34°	33°
MauritaniaNouakchott	23°	23°	24°	23°	25°	26°	27°	29°	30°	29°	27°	24°
NigerNiamey	31°	35°	39°	41°	40°	37°	34°	31°	33°	36°	35°	32°
NigeriaAbuja	33°	35°	35°	33°	31°	29°	28°	27°	28°	29°	31°	32°
SenegalDakar	24°	22°	22°	21°	23°	25°	27°	28°	28°	29°	28°	26°
Sierra LeoneFreetown	29°	30°	31°	31°	30°	28°	27°	27°	27°	28°	29°	29°
St HelenaJamestown	23°	24°	25°	24°	23°	22°	21°	20°	20°	20°	21°	22°
TogoLomé	30°	30°	30°	30°	29°	27°	26°	26°	27°	28°	29°	30°

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

Cities