This study develops an objective rainfall pattern assessment through Markov chain analysis using daily rainfall data from 1980 to 2010 along the southeastern coastal belt of Ghana particularly in Accra. The transitional matrices were computed for each month using the conditional probability of rain or no rain on a particular day given that it rained or did not rain on the previous day. The steady state transition matrices and the steady state probability vectors were also computed for each month. It was noted that, the rain or dry season pattern observed using the monthly steady state rainfall vectors tended to reflect the monthly rainfall time series trajectory. In particular, for Accra,
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