Climate and average weather in Chagni

In Chagni, the summers are hot, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Chagni typically varies from 14°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 34°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
31°
Coldest
Jul
15°
Wettest
Aug
387 mm
Driest
Jan
2 mm
Rain / yr
1880 mm
185 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
11.0°N
Clearest
Dec
32% cloud

Chagni is place in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

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

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from January 27 to May 7, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Chagni is March, with an average high of 31°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from June 24 to September 17, with daily high temperatures below 24°C. The coldest month of the year in Chagni is July, with an average low of 15°C and high of 23°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°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2914
Feb3016
Mar3117
Apr3118
May2818
Jun2516
Jul2315
Aug2315
Sep2415
Oct2515
Nov2614
Dec2714

Average hourly temperature in Chagni

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 15°C.

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

Chagni 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° / 14°20.511.47.5
Feb30° / 16°30.711.66.2
Mar31° / 17°122.811.95.3
Apr31° / 18°376.812.24.9
May28° / 18°17520.212.54.6
Jun25° / 16°32729.112.63.8
Jul23° / 15°37730.812.63.5
Aug23° / 15°38730.912.43.5
Sep24° / 15°33529.712.13.7
Oct25° / 15°19225.411.84.6
Nov26° / 14°286.811.57.4
Dec27° / 14°51.411.48.2

Chance of rain

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

Chagni gets about 1880 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 5.8 months, from around May 8 to Nov 1, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 2.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 387 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 1 · 100%Feb 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb31
Mar103
Apr247
May6420
Jun9729
Jul9931
Aug10031
Sep9930
Oct8025
Nov247
Dec51

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Chagni collects about 1880 mm of rain across 185 wet days — roughly 157 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 387 mm, while January is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec231237175327377387335192285
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan21
Feb31
Mar123
Apr377
May17520
Jun32729
Jul37731
Aug38731
Sep33530
Oct19225
Nov287
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Chagni, 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 22 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 4. 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 May 5 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 21. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 21 · 89%Aug 2 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8317
Feb8020
Mar7624
Apr6733
May4357
Jun2674
Jul1189
Aug1090
Sep2575
Oct4852
Nov8119
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 May 24, 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)
Jan11.47:016:26
Feb11.66:596:38
Mar11.96:466:41
Apr12.26:276:41
May12.56:156:45
Jun12.66:156:53
Jul12.66:226:57
Aug12.46:276:49
Sep12.16:276:30
Oct11.86:266:12
Nov11.56:356:04
Dec11.46:496:11

Sunny days

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

Chagni averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Oct 28 to Apr 25. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2422 daysJul 100 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May6Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov17Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around May 17 to October 26. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 82% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to May 16, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 31 · 100%Sep 11 · 15%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9910
Feb9910
Mar9551
Apr80173
May313534
Jun12772
Jul03763
Aug02575
Sep01882
Oct64252
Nov55387
Dec9460

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 31 · 7 km/hJul 29 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Chagni

In seasonPeak

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

Chagni's monsoon runs May–October, 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 Chagni

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 25 · 8.3

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
Jan7.5good
Feb6.2good
Mar5.3fair
Apr4.9fair
May4.5fair
Jun3.8fair
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.7fair
Oct4.7fair
Nov7.4good
Dec8.2ideal

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 Chagni for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 28 · 9.0

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 Chagni, 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.

For a warm-season trip around March (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 23°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Chagni sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Chagni 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 Chagni peaks around March 23 at about 14 (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 23UV 14Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Chagni

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
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Chagni 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 Chagni is worst in March — around 44 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.0× the cleanest month (May, 22 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1443 µg/m³May 2023 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb38Poor
Mar44Poor
Apr32Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep27Moderate
Oct33Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Chagni 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. Chagni banks about 4,086 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan354
Feb364
Mar443
Apr437
May396
Jun310
Jul276
Aug275
Sep283
Oct305
Nov308
Dec336

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.

Chagni receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Dec 16 to May 17. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 306.7 kWhJul 254.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.6Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May5.5Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.1Bright
Aug4.4Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.4Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Chagni?

Chagni sits at 11.0°N, 36.5°E, 0 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Gimja Bēt Maryam, 43 km away.

Topography around Chagni

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chagni has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 368 m around an average of 1,616 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 933 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,257 m.

The land around Chagni is covered by cropland (55%) within 3 km, cropland (59%) within 16 km, and cropland (44%) and trees (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
368 m
16 km
933 m
80 km
2,257 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Gimja Bēt Maryam 43 km · Ādīs K’idamē 44 km · Ginja Bet 44 km · Injibara 45 km · Dibate 46 km · Mambuk 48 km · Dangila 50 km · Tīlīlī 57 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 Chagni (10.9563°, 36.5046°, elevation 0 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).