Top expat cities

Ghana

Accra

#1 Top 5 cities

Accra is Ghana's strongest expat base, with the country's broadest selection of international schools, healthcare, professional services, flights, and foreign communities, offset by traffic and high expat-standard housing costs.

Country overview

Population

1 963 264

Year-round temperatures

Day: 28°C až 32°C

Night: 23°C až 26°C

Climate

Hot, humid coastal conditions year-round, with the main rainy season from roughly April to July and a shorter wet period around September to November.

Distance to the sea

0 km

Social atmosphere

7/10

Costs

Housing cost 3/10
Food cost 5/10

Business friendliness

5/10

Safety

5/10

Accra is generally manageable with normal precautions, but increasing pickpocketing, bag-snatching, robbery, and vehicle-related attacks make night travel and isolated beaches higher-risk.

Natural disaster resilience

4/10

Accra has low tropical-cyclone exposure, but intense rainy-season downpours repeatedly cause disruptive urban flooding; coastal erosion, sea-level rise, heat, and occasional earth tremors add risk.

Other scores

Other scores

Internet availability 5/10
Internet speed 5/10
Internet stability 4/10
Electricity stability 4/10

Community types

  • Corporate expats
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Online business owners
  • Families
  • Long-term expats

Largest nationality groups

  • 🇺🇸Americans
  • 🇬🇧British
  • 🇮🇳Indians
  • 🇨🇳Chinese
  • 🇿🇦South Africans

Pros / Cons

Pros

  • +Large international community
  • +Quality services
  • +Airport access
  • +International environment

Cons

  • −Traffic congestion
  • −Higher living costs
  • −Higher prices