Climate and average weather in Ābderafī

In Ābderafī, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: late July to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ābderafī typically varies from 20°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 43°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 Ābderafī for warm-weather activities are from late July to late October and late December to mid January.

Hottest
Apr
41°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
263 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
724 mm
106 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
611 m
13.7°N
Clearest
Dec
17% cloud

Ābderafī 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 late July to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from February 21 to May 27, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Ābderafī is April, with an average high of 41°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.3 months, from July 14 to September 20, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Ābderafī is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 30°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)
Jan3620
Feb3821
Mar4024
Apr4126
May4026
Jun3625
Jul3223
Aug3022
Sep3222
Oct3523
Nov3622
Dec3621

How hot and cold Ābderafī 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, Ābderafī feels like about 41°C (around April 15). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 99 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36362020
Feb38382121
Mar40402324
Apr41412626
May40402626
Jun38362525
Jul34322323
Aug32302222
Sep35322222
Oct36352223
Nov36362222
Dec36362121

Average hourly temperature in Ābderafī

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Ābderafī 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
Jan36° / 20°0011.32.9
Feb38° / 21°0011.51.4
Mar40° / 24°10.111.90.2
Apr41° / 26°62.212.30.0
May40° / 26°419.712.60.3
Jun36° / 25°8717.712.81.5
Jul32° / 23°18824.612.72.7
Aug30° / 22°26327.712.53.0
Sep32° / 22°11117.712.13.5
Oct35° / 23°255.811.73.2
Nov36° / 22°30.811.42.5
Dec36° / 21°0011.22.8

Chance of rain

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

Ābderafī gets about 724 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 4.6 months, from around May 15 to Sep 30, peaking in August at about 91% 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 263 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 19 · 91%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr82
May3110
Jun5918
Jul7925
Aug8928
Sep5918
Oct196
Nov31
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ābderafī collects about 724 mm of rain across 106 wet days — roughly 60 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 263 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 77% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec01641871882631112530
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr62
May4110
Jun8718
Jul18825
Aug26328
Sep11118
Oct256
Nov31
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ābderafī, 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 21 and lasts for 8.3 months, ending around June 1. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 2 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around September 20. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 67% 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 · 95%Aug 7 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8911
Feb9010
Mar8911
Apr8812
May8119
Jun6733
Jul4159
Aug3367
Sep6634
Oct8416
Nov937
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 June 2, 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)
Jan11.37:056:22
Feb11.57:026:35
Mar11.96:476:41
Apr12.36:256:44
May12.66:116:49
Jun12.86:106:59
Jul12.76:187:02
Aug12.56:246:52
Sep12.16:266:31
Oct11.76:296:10
Nov11.46:396:00
Dec11.26:556:06

Sunny days

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

Ābderafī averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.7 months, from around Sep 30 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 94% fewer than the November peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 1427 daysAug 71 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr22Bright
May18Bright
Jun9Mixed
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep10Mixed
Oct21Bright
Nov26Brilliant
Dec25Brilliant

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 Ābderafī, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around May 18 to November 2. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 3 to May 17, 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 1 · 100%Jul 10 · 0%oppressivecomfortabledrymuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan955000
Feb982000
Mar963100
Apr8211610
May352126172
Jun2633554
Jul0078210
Aug0005842
Sep0124157
Oct512234515
Nov61221340
Dec9010100

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 Ābderafī is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around May 21 to Aug 9. The windiest month is June, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 10 to Dec 18, with November the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 25 · 11 km/hNov 3 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Ābderafī

In seasonPeak

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

Ābderafī's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

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

Best time to visit Ābderafī

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early August, Ābderafī 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 Ābderafī for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late October and again from late December to mid January, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 25 · 3.7

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
Jan2.8poor
Feb1.5poor
Mar0.2poor
Apr0.0poor
May0.3poor
Jun1.5poor
Jul2.7poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov2.5poor
Dec2.8poor

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 Ābderafī for hot-weather activities is from mid September to early February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 8 · 6.9

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 Ābderafī, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Ābderafī sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ābderafī 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 Ābderafī peaks around March 22 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 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 22UV 13Dec 11UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ābderafī

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
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul7.54.5
Aug85.5
Sep85.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ābderafī 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 Ābderafī is worst in March — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (November, 15 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 2427 µg/m³Nov 1915 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ābderafī 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. Ābderafī banks about 7,025 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)
Jan550
Feb547
Mar672
Apr702
May710
Jun612
Jul534
Aug488
Sep501
Oct573
Nov570
Dec565

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.

Ābderafī receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 25 to Jun 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 57.1 kWhAug 24.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Ābderafī?

Ābderafī sits at 13.7°N, 36.5°E, 611 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is May Cadera, 40 km away.

MetemmaAl-FashaqahTikil Dingay

Topography around Ābderafī

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ābderafī has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 90 m around an average of 602 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 234 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,350 m.

The land around Ābderafī is covered by cropland (52%) and grassland (42%) within 3 km, grassland (49%) and cropland (41%) within 16 km, and cropland (41%) and grassland (40%) within 80 km.

3 km
90 m
16 km
234 m
80 km
1,350 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrainwater
Nearby: May Cadera 40 km · Adebaye 62 km · Himora 66 km · Doka 78 km · Abala 81 km · Metemma 92 km · Al-Fashaqah 97 km · Tikil Dingay 105 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 Ābderafī (13.7333°, 36.45°, elevation 611 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).