Climate and average weather in Āsasa

In Āsasa, the weather is mild, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near mild levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around August.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Āsasa typically varies from 7°C to 22°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 24°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
22°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Aug
377 mm
Driest
Dec
17 mm
Rain / yr
2215 mm
190 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,369 m
7.1°N
Clearest
Dec
49% cloud

Āsasa is town in Southern Ethiopia.

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

Āsasa 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 January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Āsasa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 22°C and low of 8°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 9°C and high of 16°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan218
Feb228
Mar219
Apr2010
May2010
Jun1810
Jul169
Aug179
Sep179
Oct189
Nov198
Dec207

Average hourly temperature in Āsasa

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 February afternoons, near 22°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Āsasa 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
Jan21° / 285.211.67.3
Feb22° / 485.911.87.1
Mar21° / 14912.1126.1
Apr20° / 10°26118.212.24.9
May20° / 10°20316.212.35.2
Jun18° / 10°23422.912.44.1
Jul16° / 34930.412.42.7
Aug17° / 37730.412.22.8
Sep17° / 35825.8123.5
Oct18° / 15215.411.85.1
Nov19° / 415.111.76.8
Dec20° / 172.611.67.6

Chance of rain

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

Āsasa gets about 2215 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.5 months, from around May 30 to Oct 14, peaking in August at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 17.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 377 mm over about 30 wet days; December is the driest, with 17 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 11 · 98%Dec 17 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb226
Mar3912
Apr5918
May5416
Jun7623
Jul9730
Aug9830
Sep8526
Oct5015
Nov185
Dec93

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Āsasa collects about 2215 mm of rain across 190 wet days — roughly 185 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 377 mm, while December is the driest at just 17 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec28481492612032343493773581524117
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan285
Feb486
Mar14912
Apr26118
May20316
Jun23423
Jul34930
Aug37730
Sep35826
Oct15215
Nov415
Dec173

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Āsasa, 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 October 24 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around April 3. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 61% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 13 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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 14 · 64%Jul 24 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb5347
Mar4456
Apr2872
May3367
Jun3070
Jul595
Aug595
Sep2179
Oct3169
Nov5248
Dec6139

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 23, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:446:21
Feb11.86:456:31
Mar12.06:346:31
Apr12.26:196:28
May12.36:106:29
Jun12.46:116:36
Jul12.46:186:40
Aug12.26:206:34
Sep12.06:166:19
Oct11.86:136:03
Nov11.76:185:59
Dec11.66:326:07

Sunny days

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

Āsasa averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 1. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 1612 daysAug 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov8Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Āsasa, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)
Jan100
Feb100
Mar100
Apr100
May100
Jun100
Jul100
Aug100
Sep100
Oct100
Nov100
Dec100

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 Āsasa is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 26 · 6 km/hSep 16 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Āsasa

In seasonPeak

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

Āsasa's rainy season runs April–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Āsasa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Āsasa 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 time of year to visit Āsasa for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 18 · 7.7

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
Jan7.3good
Feb7.1good
Mar6.2good
Apr4.9fair
May5.2fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul2.7poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep3.5fair
Oct5.1fair
Nov6.8good
Dec7.6ideal

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 Āsasa for hot-weather activities is from early December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 4 · 4.8

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 Āsasa, 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.

Āsasa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 22°C. Across the year the things worth having are sun protection, a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Āsasa sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 8°C. Pack sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Āsasa 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 Āsasa peaks around March 17 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 17UV 16Nov 23UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr16Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug15Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Āsasa

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 7 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)
Jan86.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Āsasa 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 Āsasa is worst in December — around 42 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorDec 1542 µg/m³Aug 1328 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan40Poor
Feb36Poor
Mar36Poor
Apr33Moderate
May30Moderate
Jun33Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct37Poor
Nov41Poor
Dec42Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Āsasa 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. Āsasa banks about 1,421 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan133
Feb138
Mar154
Apr141
May150
Jun120
Jul85
Aug85
Sep93
Oct105
Nov104
Dec115

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.

Āsasa receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 17 to Apr 20. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 246.5 kWhJul 254.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr5.4Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Āsasa?

Āsasa sits at 7.1°N, 39.2°E, 2,369 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Dodola, 13 km away.

Topography around Āsasa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Āsasa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 81 m around an average of 2,367 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 463 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,120 m.

The land around Āsasa is covered by cropland (81%) within 3 km, cropland (95%) within 16 km, and cropland (43%), trees (24%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
81 m
16 km
463 m
80 km
3,120 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Dodola 13 km · Kofelē 46 km · Bek’ojī 48 km · Arsi Negele 65 km · Kuyera 65 km · Gobēsa 66 km · Shashamane 67 km · Sagurē 72 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 Āsasa (7.1°, 39.2°, elevation 2,369 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).