Climate and average weather in Alamata

In Alamata, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around July.

Best: mid September to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Alamata typically varies from 10°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 30°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 Alamata for warm-weather activities are from late January to mid March and mid September to late December.

Hottest
Jun
27°
Coldest
Jan
10°
Wettest
Jul
226 mm
Driest
Oct
8 mm
Rain / yr
798 mm
117 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,554 m
12.4°N
Clearest
Nov
25% cloud

Alamata is Southern zone, Tigray Region; Ethiopia.

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

Alamata 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 mid September to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Alamata stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 27°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 10°C and high of 22°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2210
Feb2311
Mar2413
Apr2514
May2715
Jun2714
Jul2514
Aug2414
Sep2513
Oct2413
Nov2311
Dec2210

Average hourly temperature in Alamata

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 10°C.

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

Alamata 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
Jan22° / 10°387.511.47.3
Feb23° / 11°366.911.67.6
Mar24° / 13°671211.97.0
Apr25° / 14°5711.212.37.0
May27° / 15°274.912.67.6
Jun27° / 14°457.812.76.9
Jul25° / 14°22626.612.74.5
Aug24° / 14°22626.312.44.6
Sep25° / 13°386.412.17.7
Oct24° / 13°82.111.78.8
Nov23° / 11°132.711.48.6
Dec22° / 10°192.911.38.3

Chance of rain

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

Alamata gets about 798 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.7 months, from around Jun 21 to Sep 9, peaking in July at about 92% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 20.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 226 mm over about 27 wet days; October is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 92%Oct 20 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan248
Feb257
Mar3812
Apr3711
May175
Jun288
Jul8327
Aug8226
Sep246
Oct72
Nov83
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Alamata collects about 798 mm of rain across 117 wet days — roughly 67 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 226 mm, while October is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 65% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3836675727452262263881319
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan388
Feb367
Mar6712
Apr5711
May275
Jun458
Jul22627
Aug22626
Sep386
Oct82
Nov133
Dec193

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Alamata, 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 August 29 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around December 31. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 5 and lasts for 2.8 months, ending around August 28. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 39% 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 12 · 88%Aug 4 · 51%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb6931
Mar7030
Apr7426
May7723
Jun7030
Jul6139
Aug6139
Sep8317
Oct8614
Nov8713
Dec8317

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 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:516:11
Feb11.66:496:24
Mar11.96:346:29
Apr12.36:146:30
May12.66:016:35
Jun12.76:006:44
Jul12.76:076:47
Aug12.46:136:38
Sep12.16:146:18
Oct11.76:155:58
Nov11.46:245:50
Dec11.36:405:56

Sunny days

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

Alamata averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Sep 6 to Jan 8. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 9 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the November peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 223 daysAug 46 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May17Bright
Jun12Mixed
Jul8Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep18Bright
Oct22Bright
Nov22Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Alamata, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan928
Feb8713
Mar7624
Apr7822
May919
Jun937
Jul4258
Aug3664
Sep9010
Oct982
Nov973
Dec964

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 Alamata 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 16 · 8 km/hJan 14 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Alamata

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

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

Best time to visit Alamata

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Alamata is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Alamata for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to mid June and again from mid September to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 23 · 8.9

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
Jan7.4good
Feb7.6ideal
Mar7.0good
Apr7.0good
May7.6ideal
Jun6.8good
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.7fair
Sep7.7ideal
Oct8.8ideal
Nov8.7ideal
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 times of year to visit Alamata for hot-weather activities run from late April to late June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 29 · 8.1

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 Alamata, 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.

Alamata packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Alamata sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 14°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Alamata 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 Alamata peaks around March 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 19UV 15Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Alamata

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
Feb7.56
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Alamata 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 Alamata is worst in June — around 33 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1732 µg/m³Nov 1922 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun33Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep30Moderate
Oct25Moderate
Nov22Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Alamata 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. Alamata banks about 3,053 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan188
Feb201
Mar257
Apr283
May334
Jun325
Jul289
Aug273
Sep267
Oct253
Nov202
Dec182

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.

Alamata receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — intense — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.4 and 6.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 186.7 kWhJan 105.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Alamata?

Alamata sits at 12.4°N, 39.6°E, 1,554 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Korem, 11 km away.

Sifra

Topography around Alamata

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Alamata has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 700 m around an average of 1,608 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,902 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,885 m.

The land around Alamata is covered by cropland (46%) and shrubs (31%) within 3 km, cropland (44%) and shrubs (38%) within 16 km, and shrubs (33%), grassland (30%) and cropland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
700 m
16 km
1,902 m
80 km
3,885 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Korem 11 km · Maych’ew 41 km · Mehoni 44 km · Sek’ot’a 62 km · Weldiya 66 km · Lalibela 70 km · Mersa 84 km · Sifra 103 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 Alamata (12.416°, 39.5597°, elevation 1,554 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).