🇧🇯 Benín · capital
Porto-Novo
Porto-Novo is the capital and second-largest city of Benin. The commune covers an area of 52 square kilometres (20 sq mi) and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.
- Country
- 🇧🇯 Benín
- Elevation
- 20 m
- Population
- 264,320
- Time zone
- Africa/Porto-Novo
- Coordinates
- 6.50, 2.60
Weather in Porto-Novo month by month
The best months to go: Jul · Aug · Nov
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 33° | 33° | 32° | 32° | 31° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 33° |
| low | 24° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° |
| rain | 20 mm | 25 mm | 79 mm | 89 mm | 133 mm | 218 mm | 142 mm | 115 mm | 198 mm | 152 mm | 80 mm | 20 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Porto-Novo is from other cities in Benín
- Cotonou25 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 25 min
- Abomey-Calavi28 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 28 min
- Godomè31 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 31 min
- Parakou316 km✈ 1 h 8 min · 🚗 5 h 16 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.