Climate and average weather in Abala

In Abala, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: early July to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Abala typically varies from 18°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 42°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Abala for warm-weather activities are from early July to late October and early December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Aug
166 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
463 mm
85 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
784 m
14.2°N
Clearest
Dec
16% cloud

Abala weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early July to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Abala, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from February 18 to May 29, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Abala is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 2.0 months, from July 16 to September 14, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Abala is August, with an average low of 21°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3518
Feb3720
Mar3922
Apr4024
May3825
Jun3523
Jul3122
Aug2921
Sep3121
Oct3522
Nov3621
Dec3519

How hot and cold Abala really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Abala feels like about 40°C (around April 10). About 314 days a year carry some heat stress, and 38 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35351818
Feb37372020
Mar38392222
Apr39402424
May38382525
Jun36352323
Jul32312222
Aug31292121
Sep33312121
Oct35352222
Nov36362121
Dec35351919

Average hourly temperature in Abala

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 21°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Abala weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan35° / 18°0011.33.5
Feb37° / 20°0011.52.2
Mar39° / 22°10.311.91.0
Apr40° / 24°41.412.30.3
May38° / 25°276.212.71.1
Jun35° / 23°561212.82.4
Jul31° / 22°11720.212.83.4
Aug29° / 21°16625.112.53.6
Sep31° / 21°761512.13.9
Oct35° / 22°153.911.73.3
Nov36° / 21°20.511.33.0
Dec35° / 19°0011.23.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Abala gets about 463 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around May 21 to Sep 28, peaking in August at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 166 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 16 · 82%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr51
May206
Jun4012
Jul6520
Aug8025
Sep5015
Oct134
Nov21
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Abala collects about 463 mm of rain across 85 wet days — roughly 39 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 166 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 78% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec00142756117166761520
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr41
May276
Jun5612
Jul11720
Aug16625
Sep7615
Oct154
Nov21
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Abala, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 19 and lasts for 8.6 months, ending around June 6. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 7 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around September 18. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 14 · 96%Aug 8 · 31%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8911
Feb9010
Mar919
Apr9010
May8317
Jun7327
Jul4852
Aug3763
Sep7129
Oct8713
Nov946
Dec919

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 28, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.37:046:19
Feb11.57:016:32
Mar11.96:456:39
Apr12.36:236:42
May12.76:096:48
Jun12.86:076:57
Jul12.86:157:01
Aug12.56:226:50
Sep12.16:246:29
Oct11.76:276:07
Nov11.36:375:57
Dec11.26:536:03

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Abala averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.9 months, from around Sep 24 to May 20. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the November peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 1427 daysAug 102 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb23Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr23Brilliant
May20Bright
Jun14Mixed
Jul5Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep13Mixed
Oct22Bright
Nov26Brilliant
Dec26Brilliant

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Abala, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around May 24 to October 21. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 22 to May 23, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 5 · 100%Jul 26 · 0%drymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan973000
Feb991000
Mar982000
Apr898300
May48241990
Jun51844330
Jul0225731
Aug002935
Sep1412785
Oct262627210
Nov8312410
Dec946000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Abala is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Dec 24 to Aug 6. The windiest month is June, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 7 to Dec 23, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 25 · 11 km/hOct 16 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Abala

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Abala sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Abala

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Abala throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid July, Abala is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Abala for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late October and again from early December to late January, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 20 · 4.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.4poor
Feb2.2poor
Mar1.0poor
Apr0.4poor
May1.1poor
Jun2.4poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.9fair
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec3.4poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Abala for hot-weather activities is from mid September to mid February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 8 · 7.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Abala, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Abala sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Abala by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Abala peaks around March 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highMar 23UV 13Dec 12UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul8Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Abala

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul7.54.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep85.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Abala by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Abala is worst in April — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 14 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 924 µg/m³Dec 1014 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec14Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Abala is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Abala banks about 6,648 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan515
Feb511
Mar628
Apr659
May667
Jun577
Jul507
Aug459
Sep480
Oct562
Nov551
Dec532

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Abala receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jan 29 to Jun 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 77.2 kWhAug 45.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep6.0Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Abala?

Abala sits at 14.2°N, 37.0°E, 784 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Adebaye, 26 km away.

SheraroBarentuAl-FashaqahIndabaguna

Topography around Abala

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Abala.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Abala has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 256 m around an average of 761 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 464 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,011 m.

The land around Abala is covered by shrubs (51%) and grassland (44%) within 3 km, grassland (57%) and shrubs (39%) within 16 km, and grassland (51%), shrubs (22%) and cropland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
256 m
16 km
464 m
80 km
2,011 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrain
Nearby: Adebaye 26 km · Himora 43 km · May Cadera 50 km · Ābderafī 81 km · Sheraro 102 km · Barentu 116 km · Al-Fashaqah 123 km · Indabaguna 132 km

Ethiopia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E / F / L
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$933
2025
Happiness
4.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
14%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
8.5
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
28.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 499
Religion
Ethiopian Orthodox 44%Muslim 31%Protestant 23%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Abala (14.2333°, 37°, elevation 784 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).