Climate and average weather in Abomsa

In Abomsa, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Abomsa typically varies from 15°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 36°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Abomsa for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jun
34°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Apr
50 mm
Driest
Jun
3 mm
Rain / yr
264 mm
46 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,300 m
10.0°N
Clearest
Nov
22% cloud

Abomsa is town in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Abomsa 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 November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Abomsa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 34°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2715
Feb2917
Mar3019
Apr3120
May3321
Jun3422
Jul3221
Aug3121
Sep3121
Oct3019
Nov2916
Dec2715

How hot and cold Abomsa 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, Abomsa feels like about 34°C (around June 8). About 79 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan27271515
Feb29291717
Mar30301819
Apr31312020
May33332121
Jun34342222
Jul32322121
Aug31312121
Sep31312121
Oct30301919
Nov29291616
Dec27271515

Average hourly temperature in Abomsa

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 June afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Abomsa 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
Jan27° / 15°334.211.57.8
Feb29° / 17°303.211.76.9
Mar30° / 19°487.111.95.5
Apr31° / 20°506.812.24.9
May33° / 21°102.812.54.4
Jun34° / 22°30.612.64.1
Jul32° / 21°235.812.54.4
Aug31° / 21°327.112.34.9
Sep31° / 21°51.512.15.5
Oct30° / 19°72.111.86.1
Nov29° / 16°142.211.57.4
Dec27° / 15°112.311.48.3

Chance of rain

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

Abomsa gets about 264 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 1.7 months, from around Jul 10 to Aug 30, peaking in August at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 14.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 50 mm over about 7 wet days; June is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetAug 2 · 30%Jun 14 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb133
Mar217
Apr237
May103
Jun21
Jul186
Aug227
Sep62
Oct62
Nov72
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Abomsa collects about 264 mm of rain across 46 wet days — roughly 22 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 50 mm, while June is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec333048501032332571411
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan334
Feb303
Mar487
Apr507
May103
Jun31
Jul236
Aug327
Sep52
Oct72
Nov142
Dec112

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around August 14 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around December 31. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 91% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around January 1 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around May 27. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 31% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 10 · 92%Apr 6 · 67%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7624
Feb7525
Mar7228
Apr6931
May7624
Jun7921
Jul7723
Aug8119
Sep919
Oct8812
Nov8911
Dec8713

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 4, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:456:14
Feb11.76:446:25
Mar11.96:326:28
Apr12.26:146:27
May12.56:036:30
Jun12.66:036:38
Jul12.56:106:42
Aug12.36:146:34
Sep12.16:136:16
Oct11.86:125:58
Nov11.56:195:51
Dec11.46:345:59

Sunny days

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

Abomsa averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 15 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around Aug 16 to Jan 1. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 15 sunny days — about 34% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 224 daysApr 1515 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr15Mixed
May19Bright
Jun19Bright
Jul18Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep23Brilliant
Oct22Bright
Nov23Brilliant
Dec23Bright

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 Abomsa, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around January 19 to May 10. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 16% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 21 to January 18, and September is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 16 · 100%Apr 15 · 82%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan71235
Feb682210
Mar592714
Apr582616
May78175
Jun9541
Jul70264
Aug50428
Sep84151
Oct87102
Nov85105
Dec83133

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.

Wind in Abomsa is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 18 · 8 km/hMar 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Abomsa

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Abomsa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Abomsa 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 time of year to visit Abomsa for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid February, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 17 · 8.4

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
Jan7.8ideal
Feb6.9good
Mar5.5good
Apr4.9fair
May4.4fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep5.5fair
Oct6.1good
Nov7.4good
Dec8.3ideal

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 Abomsa for hot-weather activities is from mid August to late July, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 8 · 9.0

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 Abomsa, 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 June (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Abomsa sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Abomsa 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 Abomsa peaks around March 20 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 20UV 15Dec 11UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Abomsa

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Abomsa 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 Abomsa is worst in June — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.7× the cleanest month (November, 25 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorPoorModerateJun 1842 µg/m³Nov 2025 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun43Poor
Jul37Poor
Aug34Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct28Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec26Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Abomsa 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. Abomsa banks about 5,338 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan346
Feb352
Mar444
Apr467
May526
Jun528
Jul520
Aug497
Sep486
Oct454
Nov374
Dec344

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.

Abomsa receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — intense — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.5 and 6.6 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 226.6 kWhJan 125.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.5Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.9Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct6.4Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Abomsa?

Abomsa sits at 10.0°N, 40.0°E, 1,300 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Robit, 10 km away.

‘Alem Ketema

Topography around Abomsa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Abomsa has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 361 m around an average of 1,273 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,176 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,142 m.

The land around Abomsa is covered by shrubs (54%) and cropland (28%) within 3 km, shrubs (55%) and cropland (34%) within 16 km, and shrubs (43%) and cropland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
361 m
16 km
1,176 m
80 km
3,142 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Robit 10 km · Kobo 15 km · Āt’aye 41 km · Mehal Mēda 51 km · Debre Birhan 60 km · Kemisē 82 km · Were Īlu 90 km · ‘Alem Ketema 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 Abomsa (9.9833°, 39.9833°, elevation 1,300 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).