Climate and average weather in Dayē

In Dayē, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early October to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dayē typically varies from 13°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 32°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Dayē for warm-weather activities is from early October to mid February.

Hottest
Apr
29°
Coldest
Aug
14°
Wettest
Aug
379 mm
Driest
Dec
4 mm
Rain / yr
1473 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,556 m
9.9°N
Clearest
Dec
27% cloud

Dayē 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 October to mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from January 23 to May 31, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Dayē is April, with an average high of 29°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from July 1 to September 15, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in Dayē is August, with an average low of 14°C and high of 22°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)
Jan2714
Feb2915
Mar2916
Apr2917
May2917
Jun2515
Jul2214
Aug2214
Sep2314
Oct2514
Nov2613
Dec2613

Average hourly temperature in Dayē

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 April afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 14°C.

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

Dayē 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
Jan27° / 14°51.111.58.2
Feb29° / 15°102.311.77.0
Mar29° / 16°377.511.95.9
Apr29° / 17°478.212.25.6
May29° / 17°8510.712.45.7
Jun25° / 15°22224.212.64.6
Jul22° / 14°37030.712.53.6
Aug22° / 14°37930.812.33.5
Sep23° / 14°24424.512.14.7
Oct25° / 14°566.911.87.7
Nov26° / 13°162.811.58.4
Dec26° / 13°4111.48.6

Chance of rain

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

Dayē gets about 1473 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 4.3 months, from around May 27 to Oct 3, peaking in July at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 24.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 379 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 11 · 99%Dec 24 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb82
Mar248
Apr288
May3611
Jun7924
Jul9931
Aug9931
Sep8025
Oct247
Nov103
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dayē collects about 1473 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 123 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 379 mm, while December is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec51037478522237037924456164
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan51
Feb102
Mar378
Apr478
May8511
Jun22224
Jul37031
Aug37931
Sep24425
Oct567
Nov163
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dayē, 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 26 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around April 23. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 7 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around September 25. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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 6 · 88%Aug 4 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8020
Mar7624
Apr6832
May6535
Jun5743
Jul2872
Aug2575
Sep5347
Oct7822
Nov8515
Dec8614

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 6, 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)
Jan11.56:526:21
Feb11.76:516:32
Mar11.96:396:35
Apr12.26:216:34
May12.46:106:37
Jun12.66:106:44
Jul12.56:176:48
Aug12.36:216:41
Sep12.16:206:23
Oct11.86:196:05
Nov11.56:265:58
Dec11.46:406:06

Sunny days

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

Dayē averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.0 months, from around Sep 26 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the November peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 3022 daysAug 51 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct19Bright
Nov21Bright
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 Dayē, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 10% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 10 · 100%Sep 9 · 88%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb9820
Mar9190
Apr84150
May69283
Jun18776
Jul0946
Aug09010
Sep117910
Oct75232
Nov9460
Dec9910

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 25 · 5 km/hSep 8 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Dayē

In seasonPeak

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

Dayē's monsoon runs June–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 Dayē

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Dayē 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 Dayē for general outdoor tourist activities is from early October to mid February, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 17 · 8.7

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
Jan8.2ideal
Feb7.0good
Mar6.0good
Apr5.6good
May5.7good
Jun4.6fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep4.8fair
Oct7.6ideal
Nov8.3ideal
Dec8.6ideal

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 Dayē for hot-weather activities is from mid October to late May, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 8.6

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 Dayē, 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 April (highs near 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 22°C), pack rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Dayē sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dayē 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 Dayē peaks around March 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 21UV 15Nov 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dayē

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
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec75

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

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorModeratePoorJan 1242 µg/m³Aug 1230 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan42Poor
Feb39Poor
Mar35Poor
Apr34Moderate
May33Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul32Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct41Poor
Nov39Poor
Dec41Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dayē 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. Dayē banks about 3,759 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)
Jan323
Feb331
Mar388
Apr394
May396
Jun302
Jul246
Aug244
Sep254
Oct300
Nov288
Dec293

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.

Dayē receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 20 to May 29. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 76.8 kWhJul 274.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.4Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.5Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Dayē?

Dayē sits at 9.9°N, 38.3°E, 2,556 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Gebre Guracha, 17 km away.

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Topography around Dayē

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dayē has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 688 m around an average of 2,484 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,352 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,608 m.

The land around Dayē is covered by cropland (84%) within 3 km, cropland (76%) within 16 km, and cropland (63%) and shrubs (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
688 m
16 km
1,352 m
80 km
2,608 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrain
Nearby: Gebre Guracha 17 km · Fichē 52 km · Lumamē 55 km · Kachīsī 57 km · Bichena 63 km · Debre Mark’os 78 km · ‘Alem Ketema 87 km · Genet 94 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 Dayē (9.8833°, 38.2667°, elevation 2,556 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).