Climate and average weather in Deder

In Deder, 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 May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Deder typically varies from 12°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 28°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 Deder for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and late October to late December.

Hottest
Mar
25°
Coldest
Aug
14°
Wettest
May
250 mm
Driest
Dec
17 mm
Rain / yr
1087 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,330 m
9.3°N
Clearest
Dec
36% cloud

Deder is town in Oromia, Ethiopia.

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

Deder 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Deder stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 25°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 14°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2312
Feb2514
Mar2515
Apr2415
May2415
Jun2415
Jul2314
Aug2214
Sep2315
Oct2313
Nov2312
Dec2312

Average hourly temperature in Deder

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 14°C.

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

Deder 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
Jan23° / 12°183.811.58.3
Feb25° / 14°254.111.78.0
Mar25° / 15°9010.411.96.9
Apr24° / 15°18518.412.25.6
May24° / 15°25022.912.45.0
Jun24° / 15°751512.56.1
Jul23° / 14°941912.55.5
Aug22° / 14°1062012.35.3
Sep23° / 15°8916.412.15.9
Oct23° / 13°1001311.86.6
Nov23° / 12°405.111.67.9
Dec23° / 12°172.911.58.3

Chance of rain

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

Deder gets about 1087 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 6.8 months, from around Mar 25 to Oct 17, peaking in May at about 75% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 23.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 250 mm over about 23 wet days; December is the driest, with 17 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 11 · 75%Dec 23 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb164
Mar3310
Apr6118
May7323
Jun5215
Jul6019
Aug6520
Sep5516
Oct4113
Nov185
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Deder collects about 1087 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 91 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 250 mm, while December is the driest at just 17 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1825901852507594106891004017
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan184
Feb254
Mar9010
Apr18518
May25023
Jun7515
Jul9419
Aug10620
Sep8916
Oct10013
Nov405
Dec173

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Deder, 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 20 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around March 8. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 9 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around August 16. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 15 · 78%May 6 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb7030
Mar5941
Apr4555
May4357
Jun5743
Jul5545
Aug6238
Sep7327
Oct6139
Nov7426
Dec7723

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 21, 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)
Jan11.56:386:09
Feb11.76:386:20
Mar11.96:266:22
Apr12.26:086:21
May12.45:586:23
Jun12.55:586:31
Jul12.56:056:35
Aug12.36:096:28
Sep12.16:076:10
Oct11.86:065:53
Nov11.66:125:46
Dec11.56:275:54

Sunny days

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

Deder averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Oct 18 to Mar 12. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 7 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1517 daysAug 35 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb13Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec17Bright

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 Deder, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.2 months, from around April 4 to June 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 20% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 11 to April 3, and November 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 8 · 100%May 9 · 76%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9550
Feb9281
Mar74251
Apr375111
May176320
Jun36613
Jul44560
Aug38621
Sep44552
Oct66340
Nov85150
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Deder is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around May 31 to Sep 18. The windiest month is July, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 19 to May 30, with May the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 3 · 8 km/hMay 3 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Deder

In seasonPeak

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

Deder's rainy season runs April–May, 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 Deder

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 20 · 8.5

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
Jan8.3ideal
Feb8.0ideal
Mar6.9good
Apr5.6good
May5.0fair
Jun6.1good
Jul5.5good
Aug5.3fair
Sep5.9good
Oct6.6good
Nov7.9ideal
Dec8.3ideal

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 5 · 7.1

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 Deder, 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.

Deder packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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, Deder sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Deder 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 Deder peaks around March 18 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 18UV 16Nov 23UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Deder

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
Apr8.57
May86.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Deder 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 Deder is worst in November — around 28 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateNov 2128 µg/m³Aug 1819 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb27Moderate
Mar26Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Deder 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. Deder banks about 3,174 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)
Jan242
Feb259
Mar313
Apr292
May300
Jun280
Jul261
Aug258
Sep262
Oct258
Nov227
Dec222

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.

Deder receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 266.3 kWhJul 255.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.0Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Deder?

Deder sits at 9.3°N, 41.4°E, 2,330 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Chelenko, 16 km away.

Topography around Deder

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Deder has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 794 m around an average of 2,304 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,641 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,673 m.

The land around Deder is covered by cropland (48%) and shrubs (38%) within 3 km, shrubs (54%) and cropland (41%) within 16 km, and shrubs (57%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
794 m
16 km
1,641 m
80 km
2,673 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Chelenko 16 km · Hīrna 39 km · Dire Dawa 56 km · ‘Alemaya 63 km · Āsbe Teferī 68 km · Harar 74 km · Mī’ēso 76 km · Felana 83 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 Deder (9.3117°, 41.443°, elevation 2,330 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).