Climate and average weather in Ciro

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

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ciro typically varies from 12°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 30°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 Ciro for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Aug
13°
Wettest
Aug
212 mm
Driest
Dec
3 mm
Rain / yr
965 mm
144 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,957 m
7.8°N
Clearest
Dec
31% cloud

Ciro 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 mid October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ciro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 27°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 13°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in December.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2612
Feb2713
Mar2714
Apr2615
May2514
Jun2414
Jul2213
Aug2113
Sep2213
Oct2413
Nov2512
Dec2512

Average hourly temperature in Ciro

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 13°C.

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

Ciro 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
Jan26° / 12°8211.68.4
Feb27° / 13°17311.77.9
Mar27° / 14°497.211.97.1
Apr26° / 15°10512.312.26.2
May25° / 14°9913.812.46.2
Jun24° / 14°8918.812.45.5
Jul22° / 13°17827.412.43.9
Aug21° / 13°21228.212.33.8
Sep22° / 13°16223.6124.6
Oct24° / 13°375.711.87.8
Nov25° / 12°61.411.68.7
Dec25° / 12°30.711.68.9

Chance of rain

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

Ciro gets about 965 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around Apr 13 to Oct 4, peaking in August at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 8.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 212 mm over about 28 wet days; December is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 9 · 91%Dec 8 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb113
Mar237
Apr4112
May4514
Jun6319
Jul8827
Aug9128
Sep7624
Oct216
Nov51
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ciro collects about 965 mm of rain across 144 wet days — roughly 80 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 212 mm, while December is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec8174910599891782121623763
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan82
Feb173
Mar497
Apr10512
May9914
Jun8919
Jul17827
Aug21228
Sep16224
Oct376
Nov61
Dec31

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ciro, 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 September 29 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around March 26. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 7 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around September 28. The cloudiest month is August, 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 14 · 84%Aug 2 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7525
Feb7228
Mar6139
Apr4456
May4753
Jun4852
Jul2377
Aug2080
Sep4654
Oct6634
Nov7723
Dec8218

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 14, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, 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)
Jan11.66:496:24
Feb11.76:496:34
Mar11.96:386:35
Apr12.26:226:32
May12.46:136:34
Jun12.46:146:41
Jul12.46:206:45
Aug12.36:236:39
Sep12.06:206:23
Oct11.86:176:07
Nov11.66:236:01
Dec11.66:376:10

Sunny days

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

Ciro 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 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Oct 7 to Mar 31. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1621 daysJul 300 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct13Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Ciro, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan991
Feb964
Mar928
Apr7327
May5742
Jun4258
Jul2179
Aug1189
Sep2674
Oct8119
Nov973
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 Ciro is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Oct 11 to Mar 24. The windiest month is November, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 25 to Oct 10, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 13 · 11 km/hSep 14 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct9calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Ciro

In seasonPeak

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

Ciro's monsoon runs April–May, 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 Ciro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 11 · 8.9

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
Jan8.4ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar7.1good
Apr6.2good
May6.2good
Jun5.5fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep4.7fair
Oct7.7ideal
Nov8.7ideal
Dec8.8ideal

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 Ciro for hot-weather activities is from mid October to early April, with a peak score in the second week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 12 · 8.0

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 Ciro, 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.

Ciro packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Ciro sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 14°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ciro 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 Ciro peaks around March 17 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 22 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 17UV 16Nov 22UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ciro

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 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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Ciro 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 Ciro is worst in December — around 68 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyDec 1668 µg/m³Aug 1145 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan65Unhealthy
Feb62Unhealthy
Mar59Unhealthy
Apr52Poor
May50Poor
Jun51Poor
Jul46Poor
Aug45Poor
Sep53Poor
Oct64Unhealthy
Nov65Unhealthy
Dec68Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ciro 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. Ciro banks about 3,184 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan277
Feb280
Mar329
Apr308
May294
Jun255
Jul226
Aug223
Sep220
Oct252
Nov259
Dec261

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.

Ciro receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Oct 1 to May 12. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 286.5 kWhJul 224.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul4.5Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Ciro?

Ciro sits at 7.8°N, 38.2°E, 1,957 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Worabe, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Ciro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ciro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 193 m around an average of 1,975 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,109 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,697 m.

The land around Ciro is covered by cropland (88%) within 3 km, cropland (74%) within 16 km, and cropland (62%) within 80 km.

3 km
193 m
16 km
1,109 m
80 km
2,697 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Worabe 6.0 km · Butajīra 35 km · Insēno 37 km · Hosa’ina 52 km · Ziway 54 km · K’olīto 60 km · Damboya 62 km · Welk’īt’ē 70 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 Ciro (7.8333°, 38.2333°, elevation 1,957 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).