Climate and average weather in Āsela

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

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Āsela typically varies from 7°C to 23°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 26°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
23°
Coldest
Aug
10°
Wettest
Aug
407 mm
Driest
Dec
10 mm
Rain / yr
1815 mm
187 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,442 m
8.0°N
Clearest
Dec
40% cloud

Āsela is Ethiopian town.

Density
8,216/km²
people per km²

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

Āsela 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Āsela stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 23°C and low of 10°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 10°C and high of 18°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan228
Feb239
Mar2310
Apr2211
May2211
Jun2010
Jul1911
Aug1810
Sep1910
Oct209
Nov218
Dec217

Average hourly temperature in Āsela

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 March afternoons, near 23°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 10°C.

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

Āsela 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° / 173.711.67.9
Feb23° / 254.311.77.8
Mar23° / 10°7710.211.96.9
Apr22° / 11°15017.512.25.4
May22° / 11°1731912.45.2
Jun20° / 10°14222.912.54.5
Jul19° / 11°29030.212.43.3
Aug18° / 10°40730.612.33.2
Sep19° / 10°37528.4123.6
Oct20° / 12413.911.85.7
Nov21° / 254.311.67.4
Dec21° / 102.411.58.0

Chance of rain

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

Āsela gets about 1815 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 6.2 months, from around Apr 5 to Oct 11, peaking in August at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 22.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 407 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 20 · 100%Dec 22 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb164
Mar3210
Apr5718
May6219
Jun7723
Jul9730
Aug9931
Sep9328
Oct4614
Nov154
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Āsela collects about 1815 mm of rain across 187 wet days — roughly 151 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 407 mm, while December is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1725771501731422904073751242510
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan174
Feb254
Mar7710
Apr15018
May17319
Jun14223
Jul29030
Aug40731
Sep37528
Oct12414
Nov254
Dec102

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Āsela, 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 12 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around March 20. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 19 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around October 11. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 16 · 76%Aug 3 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6634
Mar5446
Apr4159
May4753
Jun5248
Jul2971
Aug2377
Sep3466
Oct5347
Nov6832
Dec7525

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 10, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:456:20
Feb11.76:466:30
Mar11.96:356:31
Apr12.26:186:29
May12.46:096:31
Jun12.56:106:37
Jul12.46:166:42
Aug12.36:206:35
Sep12.06:166:19
Oct11.86:146:03
Nov11.66:205:58
Dec11.56:336:06

Sunny days

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

Āsela averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Oct 31 to Mar 26. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1816 daysAug 81 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov10Mixed
Dec15Mixed

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 Āsela, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in March, 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 (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr973
May973
Jun1000
Jul991
Aug991
Sep991
Oct991
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Āsela is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 12. The windiest month is November, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 9 to Oct 9, with September the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 7 · 9 km/hSep 16 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep5calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Āsela

In seasonPeak

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

Āsela's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Āsela

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Āsela 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 Āsela for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 19 · 8.1

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
Jan7.9ideal
Feb7.8ideal
Mar6.9good
Apr5.5fair
May5.2fair
Jun4.5fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.6fair
Oct5.7good
Nov7.4good
Dec8.0ideal

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 Āsela for hot-weather activities is from late December to late March, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 6.3

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 Āsela, 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.

Āsela packs about the same all year — highs hold near 23°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Āsela sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 10°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Āsela 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 Āsela peaks around March 16 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 16Dec 10UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Āsela

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
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Āsela 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 Āsela is worst in June — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateModerateJun 1738 µg/m³Nov 2324 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun39Poor
Jul32Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct32Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec24Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Āsela 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. Āsela banks about 1,876 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan152
Feb170
Mar207
Apr192
May186
Jun159
Jul141
Aug137
Sep131
Oct140
Nov129
Dec130

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.

Āsela receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around Oct 19 to May 26. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 21% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 276.5 kWhJul 265.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Āsela?

Āsela sits at 8.0°N, 39.1°E, 2,442 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Sagurē, 22 km away.

Topography around Āsela

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Āsela has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 525 m around an average of 2,428 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,416 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,957 m.

The land around Āsela is covered by cropland (38%) and artificial surfaces (29%) within 3 km, cropland (71%) within 16 km, and cropland (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
525 m
16 km
2,416 m
80 km
2,957 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Sagurē 22 km · Īteya 23 km · Huruta 33 km · Mek’ī 41 km · ‘Alem T’ēna 44 km · Ziway 46 km · Bek’ojī 48 km · Gobēsa 55 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 Āsela (7.95°, 39.1333°, elevation 2,442 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).