Climate and average weather in Bek’ojī

In Bek’ojī, the weather is mild, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near mild levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: early November to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bek’ojī typically varies from 6°C to 21°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 24°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bek’ojī for warm-weather activities is from early November to mid March.

Hottest
Feb
21°
Coldest
Aug
Wettest
Sep
474 mm
Driest
Dec
13 mm
Rain / yr
2990 mm
211 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,817 m
7.5°N
Clearest
Dec
41% cloud

Bek’ojī is town in central Ethiopia.

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

Bek’ojī 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Bek’ojī stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 21°C and low of 7°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 9°C and high of 18°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan216
Feb217
Mar218
Apr209
May209
Jun199
Jul189
Aug189
Sep188
Oct187
Nov196
Dec206

Average hourly temperature in Bek’ojī

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near C.

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

Bek’ojī 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° / 305.911.67.3
Feb21° / 486.811.87.1
Mar21° / 17213.711.96.1
Apr20° / 3992112.24.7
May20° / 41821.712.34.6
Jun19° / 31727.412.43.7
Jul18° / 37630.612.43.1
Aug18° / 47330.812.23.1
Sep18° / 47427.8123.6
Oct18° / 22016.311.85.1
Nov19° / 496.111.76.8
Dec20° / 132.911.67.6

Chance of rain

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

Bek’ojī gets about 2990 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 6.4 months, from around Apr 2 to Oct 13, peaking in August at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 19.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 474 mm over about 28 wet days; December is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 3 · 100%Dec 19 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb257
Mar4414
Apr6921
May7222
Jun9027
Jul9931
Aug9931
Sep9128
Oct5316
Nov216
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bek’ojī collects about 2990 mm of rain across 211 wet days — roughly 249 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 474 mm, while December is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec30481723994183173764734742204913
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan306
Feb487
Mar17214
Apr39921
May41822
Jun31727
Jul37631
Aug47331
Sep47428
Oct22016
Nov496
Dec133

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bek’ojī, 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 26 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around March 27. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 8 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 25. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% 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 · 74%Jul 31 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb6436
Mar5248
Apr3565
May4258
Jun4060
Jul2080
Aug2179
Sep4060
Oct4159
Nov6337
Dec7129

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 18, 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)
Jan11.66:446:20
Feb11.86:456:30
Mar11.96:346:31
Apr12.26:186:28
May12.36:096:30
Jun12.46:106:36
Jul12.46:176:41
Aug12.26:206:35
Sep12.06:166:19
Oct11.86:136:03
Nov11.76:195:58
Dec11.66:326:06

Sunny days

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

Bek’ojī averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Nov 1 to Apr 1. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1616 daysJul 210 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov11Mixed
Dec15Bright

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 Bek’ojī, 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 Bek’ojī is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 27 · 6 km/hSep 13 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Bek’ojī

In seasonPeak

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

Bek’ojī's rainy season runs April–October, 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 Bek’ojī

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Bek’ojī 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 Bek’ojī 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 19 · 7.8

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
Mar6.1good
Apr4.7fair
May4.6fair
Jun3.8fair
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.6fair
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 Bek’ojī for hot-weather activities is from early December to late March, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 20 · 4.6

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 Bek’ojī, 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.

Bek’ojī packs about the same all year — highs hold near 21°C. Across the year the things worth having are a warm layer, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Bek’ojī sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 7°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bek’ojī 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 Bek’ojī peaks around March 16 at about 17 (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 16UV 17Nov 23UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr16Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug15Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Bek’ojī

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
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Bek’ojī 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 Bek’ojī 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/m³Jan 1726 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb27Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun33Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug26Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bek’ojī 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. Bek’ojī banks about 1,290 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan104
Feb118
Mar143
Apr131
May135
Jun118
Jul102
Aug98
Sep92
Oct88
Nov78
Dec83

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.

Bek’ojī receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Oct 23 to May 26. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 276.9 kWhJul 245.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.8Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Bek’ojī?

Bek’ojī sits at 7.5°N, 39.3°E, 2,817 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Sagurē, 26 km away.

Topography around Bek’ojī

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bek’ojī has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 414 m around an average of 2,778 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,255 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,005 m.

The land around Bek’ojī is covered by cropland (59%) within 3 km, cropland (65%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and cropland (64%) within 80 km.

3 km
414 m
16 km
1,255 m
80 km
3,005 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Sagurē 26 km · Gobēsa 29 km · Āsela 48 km · Āsasa 48 km · Dodola 62 km · Arsi Negele 66 km · Īteya 67 km · Huruta 69 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 Bek’ojī (7.5333°, 39.25°, elevation 2,817 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).