Climate and average weather in Dīla

In Dīla, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dīla typically varies from 13°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 31°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
28°
Coldest
Jul
15°
Wettest
Oct
390 mm
Driest
Feb
40 mm
Rain / yr
1975 mm
208 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,594 m
6.4°N
Clearest
Dec
43% cloud

Dīla is town and woreda in Ethiopia.

Density
11,120/km²
people per km²

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

Dīla 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 early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dīla stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 15°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2714
Feb2815
Mar2816
Apr2616
May2415
Jun2315
Jul2215
Aug2215
Sep2315
Oct2414
Nov2514
Dec2613

Average hourly temperature in Dīla

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 February afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 15°C.

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

Dīla 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°415.811.77.5
Feb28° / 15°405.311.86.9
Mar28° / 16°12612.3125.9
Apr26° / 16°30323.712.14.5
May24° / 15°33028.412.34.1
Jun23° / 15°12621.212.44.8
Jul22° / 15°9418.912.35.1
Aug22° / 15°9718.412.25.2
Sep23° / 15°21224.1124.6
Oct24° / 14°39027.711.94.2
Nov25° / 14°16115.511.76.1
Dec26° / 13°567.111.67.5

Chance of rain

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

Dīla gets about 1975 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 7.5 months, from around Mar 29 to Nov 10, peaking in October at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 390 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 40 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 7 · 93%Jan 1 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan186
Feb205
Mar4012
Apr7824
May9028
Jun7121
Jul6119
Aug6018
Sep8024
Oct8828
Nov5216
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dīla collects about 1975 mm of rain across 208 wet days — roughly 165 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 390 mm, while February is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4140126303330126949721239016156
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan416
Feb405
Mar12612
Apr30324
May33028
Jun12621
Jul9419
Aug9718
Sep21224
Oct39028
Nov16116
Dec567

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dīla, 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 November 2 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around April 2. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 74% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 3 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around November 1. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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 19 · 76%Jul 20 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb6634
Mar5446
Apr3070
May2674
Jun2971
Jul1486
Aug1882
Sep3268
Oct3070
Nov5743
Dec7426

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 4, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:466:26
Feb11.86:486:35
Mar12.06:386:35
Apr12.16:236:31
May12.36:146:32
Jun12.46:166:38
Jul12.36:226:43
Aug12.26:246:37
Sep12.06:206:22
Oct11.96:166:07
Nov11.76:216:03
Dec11.66:346:12

Sunny days

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

Dīla averages about 6 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 4.9 months, from around Nov 2 to Mar 31. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1916 daysJul 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr3Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov9Mixed
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 Dīla, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around March 28 to June 17. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 60% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 7 to March 27, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 26 · 99%May 9 · 31%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan79202
Feb76213
Mar553510
Apr134840
May03960
Jun37720
Jul9883
Aug10874
Sep77914
Oct66430
Nov355312
Dec68302

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 Dīla is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 5 · 7 km/hJun 22 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Dīla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 25 · 7.8

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
Feb6.9good
Mar5.9good
Apr4.5fair
May4.1fair
Jun4.8fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep4.6fair
Oct4.3fair
Nov6.0good
Dec7.5good

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 Dīla for hot-weather activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 20 · 7.5

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 Dīla, 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 February (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 22°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Dīla sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dīla 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 Dīla peaks around March 16 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 16UV 16Nov 22UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dīla

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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Dīla 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 Dīla is worst in December — around 73 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.9× the cleanest month (August, 39 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyDec 1872 µg/m³Aug 1440 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan69Unhealthy
Feb61Unhealthy
Mar53Poor
Apr45Poor
May41Poor
Jun44Poor
Jul42Poor
Aug39Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct54Poor
Nov67Unhealthy
Dec73Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dīla 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. Dīla banks about 3,524 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)
Jan317
Feb318
Mar364
Apr317
May298
Jun265
Jul259
Aug267
Sep268
Oct283
Nov277
Dec291

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.

Dīla receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 28 to May 1. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 286.5 kWhJul 204.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.3Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Dīla?

Dīla sits at 6.4°N, 38.3°E, 1,594 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Wenago, 12 km away.

Topography around Dīla

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dīla has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 486 m around an average of 1,618 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,825 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,121 m.

The land around Dīla is covered by trees (64%) within 3 km, trees (55%) within 16 km, and trees (38%) and shrubs (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
486 m
16 km
1,825 m
80 km
2,121 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Wenago 12 km · Ch’iko 19 km · Wendo 23 km · Yirga Ch’efē 31 km · Yirga ‘Alem 39 km · Kele 49 km · Leku 53 km · Bedēsa 53 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 Dīla (6.4167°, 38.3167°, elevation 1,594 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).