page_title: Obuasi
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Obuasi / Climate
caption_attribution_description: English: A session of the hills surrounding the Obuasi Sports Club area. At the foot of this hill is the Anglo-gold Ashanti Hospital, Obuasi
context_page_description: Obuasi is a Mining Community and town in the southern part of Obuasi Municipal of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Obuasi is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal which lies south of Ashanti capital city Kumasi 39 miles away south-west of Kumasi or 1 hour 2 minutes road-drive from Obuasi to Kumasi. Obuasi has a settlement population of 175,043 people. Obuasi gold bar mining community has delicate mosaic from the Ashanti people culture of Ashanti and the semi-island exclave Ashantiland. Obuasi wears a ring of hills as its adornment and Obuasi sits quietly albeit industriously on the soil that births the top-9 single richest bullion gold bar gold mining mining|mine on Earth the Obuasi Gold Mine.
  Gold Coast region was named after the vast amount of bullion gold bars found in Obuasi and Ashanti.
context_section_description: Obuasi has a semi-equatorial climate with two rainy seasons and a mean annual rainfall between 125mm and 175mm. The average annual temperature in Obuasi is 26.5 °C with highs of 30 °C and lows of 23 °C. Relative humidity is around 75% – 80% in the wet season. Summers in Obuasi are wet, while the winters months tend to be dry. The climate around Obuasi is Aw Tropical savanna climate in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Obuasi's yearly precipitation averages 1,450 mm.
caption: OSC Hill of Obuasi in Ashanti.
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