Climate and average weather in Ārabī

In Ārabī, the weather is sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ārabī typically varies from 16°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 13°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 Ārabī for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jun
34°
Coldest
Jan
16°
Wettest
Apr
42 mm
Driest
Jun
2 mm
Rain / yr
169 mm
31 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,058 m
10.0°N
Clearest
Dec
23% cloud

Ārabī 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 Ārabī, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Ārabī 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 16°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2916
Feb3118
Mar3220
Apr3321
May3422
Jun3422
Jul3322
Aug3322
Sep3322
Oct3220
Nov3018
Dec2916

How hot and cold Ārabī 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, Ārabī feels like about 35°C (around June 10). About 227 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291616
Feb31311818
Mar32322020
Apr33332121
May34342222
Jun34342222
Jul33332222
Aug33332222
Sep33332222
Oct32322020
Nov30301818
Dec29291616

Average hourly temperature in Ārabī

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 16°C.

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

Ārabī 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
Jan29° / 16°8111.57.2
Feb31° / 18°81.211.76.0
Mar32° / 20°324.811.94.6
Apr33° / 21°426.812.24.1
May34° / 22°172.612.53.8
Jun34° / 22°20.512.63.5
Jul33° / 22°113.412.53.9
Aug33° / 22°195.112.34.1
Sep33° / 22°41.212.14.3
Oct32° / 20°132.311.85.0
Nov30° / 18°101.311.56.3
Dec29° / 16°50.711.47.3

Chance of rain

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

Ārabī gets about 169 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 2.4 months, from around Mar 4 to May 15, peaking in April at about 24% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 19.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 42 mm over about 7 wet days; June is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetApr 13 · 24%Jun 19 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb51
Mar155
Apr227
May93
Jun21
Jul113
Aug165
Sep51
Oct72
Nov51
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ārabī collects about 169 mm of rain across 31 wet days — roughly 14 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 42 mm, while June is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 55% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec8832421721119413105
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan81
Feb81
Mar325
Apr427
May173
Jun21
Jul113
Aug195
Sep41
Oct132
Nov101
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ārabī, 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 October 9 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around March 5. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 6 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around August 7. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 32% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 10 · 89%Apr 25 · 67%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8416
Feb8119
Mar7624
Apr6832
May7228
Jun7327
Jul7723
Aug8317
Sep8515
Oct8218
Nov8713
Dec8812

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 5, 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)
Jan11.56:356:04
Feb11.76:346:15
Mar11.96:226:18
Apr12.26:046:17
May12.55:536:20
Jun12.65:536:28
Jul12.56:006:32
Aug12.36:046:24
Sep12.16:036:06
Oct11.86:025:48
Nov11.56:095:41
Dec11.46:245:49

Sunny days

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

Ārabī averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Oct 15 to Mar 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is May, down near 15 sunny days — about 33% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1724 daysMay 213 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr14Mixed
May16Bright
Jun17Bright
Jul18Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct19Bright
Nov22Bright
Dec24Brilliant

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around March 1 to June 1. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 42% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 2 to October 14, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 24 · 100%Apr 22 · 54%muggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan702380
Feb6623111
Mar4627208
Apr22362715
May2743246
Jun633340
Jul464950
Aug3454111
Sep544051
Oct6027113
Nov6920101
Dec781660

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 Ārabī is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.6 months, from around Jun 6 to Aug 23. The windiest month is July, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 24 to Oct 11, with September the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 3 · 16 km/hSep 19 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12calm
May12calm
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep12calm
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Ārabī

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Ārabī

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Ārabī 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 Ārabī for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 7.5

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
Jan7.2good
Feb6.0good
Mar4.6fair
Apr4.1fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.9fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct5.0fair
Nov6.3good
Dec7.3good

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 Ārabī for hot-weather activities run from late June to mid July and again from late August to late March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 15 · 9.2

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 Ārabī, 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.

Ārabī packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°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, Ārabī sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ārabī 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 Ārabī peaks around March 17 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 17UV 15Dec 10UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ārabī

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 6.5 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
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Ārabī 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 Ārabī is worst in June — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (December, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJun 2323 µg/m³Dec 1312 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ārabī 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. Ārabī banks about 5,812 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan388
Feb393
Mar498
Apr507
May553
Jun553
Jul553
Aug546
Sep527
Oct489
Nov417
Dec387

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.

Ārabī 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.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 16.6 kWhJun 195.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug6.1Intense
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Ārabī?

Ārabī sits at 10.0°N, 42.5°E, 1,058 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Chinahsen, 52 km away.

Topography around Ārabī

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ārabī has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 144 m around an average of 1,057 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 636 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,386 m.

The land around Ārabī is covered by shrubs (51%) and grassland (34%) within 3 km, shrubs (47%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and shrubs (41%) and bare terrain (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
144 m
16 km
636 m
80 km
2,386 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrain
Nearby: Chinahsen 52 km · Felana 65 km · Funyan Bīra 65 km · Borama 76 km · Jijiga 76 km · Dire Dawa 80 km · ‘Alemaya 83 km · Harar 83 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 Ārabī (9.9628°, 42.4928°, elevation 1,058 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).