Climate and average weather in Dembech’a

In Dembech’a, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early November to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dembech’a typically varies from 10°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 30°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Jul
12°
Wettest
Aug
462 mm
Driest
Jan
10 mm
Rain / yr
2294 mm
196 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,085 m
10.6°N
Clearest
Dec
40% cloud

Dembech’a is place in Amhara, Ethiopia.

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

Dembech’a 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 early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dembech’a 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 13°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 12°C and high of 20°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°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2511
Feb2612
Mar2713
Apr2714
May2514
Jun2213
Jul2012
Aug2012
Sep2112
Oct2311
Nov2310
Dec2410

Average hourly temperature in Dembech’a

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 July, near 12°C.

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

Dembech’a 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
Jan25° / 11°102.811.58.3
Feb26° / 12°183.411.77.8
Mar27° / 13°529.511.96.7
Apr27° / 14°8511.612.26.2
May25° / 14°22220.412.55.1
Jun22° / 13°35229.512.63.7
Jul20° / 12°4373112.63.2
Aug20° / 12°4623112.33.2
Sep21° / 12°43629.412.13.6
Oct23° / 11°17317.311.85.7
Nov23° / 10°366.911.57.6
Dec24° / 10°12311.48.5

Chance of rain

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

Dembech’a gets about 2294 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 5.4 months, from around May 6 to Oct 16, peaking in June 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 462 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 28 · 100%Feb 2 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb123
Mar3110
Apr3912
May6620
Jun9730
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep9729
Oct5717
Nov237
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dembech’a collects about 2294 mm of rain across 196 wet days — roughly 191 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 462 mm, while January is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec101852852223524374624361733612
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan103
Feb183
Mar5210
Apr8512
May22220
Jun35230
Jul43731
Aug46231
Sep43629
Oct17317
Nov367
Dec123

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dembech’a, 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 4 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around April 20. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 21 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 3. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 22 · 84%Aug 5 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7525
Feb7327
Mar6535
Apr5446
May4258
Jun3367
Jul991
Aug793
Sep3268
Oct5941
Nov7525
Dec8416

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 28, 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)
Jan11.56:566:23
Feb11.76:556:34
Mar11.96:426:38
Apr12.26:236:37
May12.56:126:41
Jun12.66:126:49
Jul12.66:196:53
Aug12.36:246:45
Sep12.16:236:26
Oct11.86:226:08
Nov11.56:306:01
Dec11.46:456:08

Sunny days

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

Dembech’a 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 5.7 months, from around Oct 17 to Apr 9. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2616 daysJul 170 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov12Mixed
Dec16Bright

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 Dembech’a, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, 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 (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar964
Apr8911
May5248
Jun1486
Jul1288
Aug892
Sep1981
Oct6733
Nov928
Dec991

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 10 · 6 km/hAug 1 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Dembech’a

In seasonPeak

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

Dembech’a's monsoon runs May–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 Dembech’a

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 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
Jan8.3ideal
Feb7.8ideal
Mar6.7good
Apr6.2good
May5.1fair
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.6fair
Oct5.7good
Nov7.6ideal
Dec8.4ideal

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 Dembech’a for hot-weather activities is from late November to late April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 7.8

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 Dembech’a, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 20°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Dembech’a sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 13°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dembech’a 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 Dembech’a peaks around March 22 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 22UV 16Dec 10UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dembech’a

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
Apr8.57
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Dembech’a 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 Dembech’a is worst in December — around 48 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.8× the cleanest month (August, 27 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorDec 2048 µg/m³Aug 1227 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan46Poor
Feb40Poor
Mar35Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep34Moderate
Oct41Poor
Nov44Poor
Dec48Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dembech’a 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. Dembech’a banks about 2,836 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan244
Feb262
Mar315
Apr317
May293
Jun218
Jul186
Aug186
Sep189
Oct206
Nov202
Dec218

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.

Dembech’a receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Jan 2 to May 29. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 46.7 kWhJul 274.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.2Bright
Jul4.4Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Dembech’a?

Dembech’a sits at 10.6°N, 37.5°E, 2,085 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Finote Selam, 29 km away.

Topography around Dembech’a

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dembech’a has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 251 m around an average of 2,088 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 869 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,309 m.

The land around Dembech’a is covered by cropland (62%) within 3 km, cropland (79%) within 16 km, and cropland (71%) within 80 km.

3 km
251 m
16 km
869 m
80 km
3,309 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Finote Selam 29 km · Debre Mark’os 35 km · Burē 48 km · Lumamē 59 km · Shendi 59 km · Tīlīlī 61 km · Mot’a 73 km · Ginja Bet 73 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 Dembech’a (10.55°, 37.4833°, elevation 2,085 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).