Climate and average weather in Filakit

In Filakit, 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 Filakit typically varies from 10°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 29°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 Filakit for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Mar
26°
Coldest
Aug
12°
Wettest
Aug
490 mm
Driest
Dec
11 mm
Rain / yr
1776 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,880 m
11.7°N
Clearest
Dec
31% cloud

Filakit 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 Filakit, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Filakit stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 26°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 12°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in December.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2411
Feb2612
Mar2613
Apr2614
May2614
Jun2413
Jul2112
Aug2012
Sep2111
Oct2311
Nov2310
Dec2410

Average hourly temperature in Filakit

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 12°C.

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

Filakit 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
Jan24° / 11°184.311.48.3
Feb26° / 12°224.811.67.8
Mar26° / 13°6110.311.96.8
Apr26° / 14°821212.36.5
May26° / 14°10510.812.56.7
Jun24° / 13°15916.712.75.8
Jul21° / 12°43530.712.63.5
Aug20° / 12°4903112.43.4
Sep21° / 11°32224.212.14.6
Oct23° / 11°55611.77.6
Nov23° / 10°182.911.58.5
Dec24° / 10°112.711.38.7

Chance of rain

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

Filakit gets about 1776 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 3.7 months, from around Jun 11 to Oct 1, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 490 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 11 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 20 · 100%Dec 1 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan144
Feb175
Mar3310
Apr4012
May3511
Jun5717
Jul9831
Aug10031
Sep7924
Oct216
Nov103
Dec93

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Filakit collects about 1776 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 148 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 490 mm, while December is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 70% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec18226182105159435490322551811
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan184
Feb225
Mar6110
Apr8212
May10511
Jun15917
Jul43531
Aug49031
Sep32224
Oct556
Nov183
Dec113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Filakit, 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 15 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around April 22. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 30 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around September 14. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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 16 · 88%Aug 3 · 20%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb7723
Mar7228
Apr6733
May6436
Jun5842
Jul3367
Aug3070
Sep6535
Oct7525
Nov8515
Dec8713

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 5, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:536:16
Feb11.66:516:28
Mar11.96:376:32
Apr12.36:176:33
May12.56:056:37
Jun12.76:056:45
Jul12.66:126:49
Aug12.46:176:41
Sep12.16:176:21
Oct11.76:186:02
Nov11.56:265:54
Dec11.36:416:01

Sunny days

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

Filakit 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 5.2 months, from around Oct 14 to Mar 19. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1321 daysAug 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar11Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct12Mixed
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 Filakit, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in March, 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
Mar1000
Apr982
May928
Jun919
Jul5545
Aug4357
Sep8020
Oct982
Nov1000
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.

Wind in Filakit is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 28 · 5 km/hAug 2 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Filakit

In seasonPeak

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

Filakit's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Filakit sees seasonal dust haze (June–July), heaviest in June.

Monsoon
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Filakit

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 5 · 8.8

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
Jan8.3ideal
Feb7.8ideal
Mar6.9good
Apr6.5good
May6.7good
Jun5.8good
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.4poor
Sep4.6fair
Oct7.6ideal
Nov8.5ideal
Dec8.7ideal

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 Filakit for hot-weather activities is from mid October to early June, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 5 · 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 Filakit, 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.

Filakit packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°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, Filakit sees daytime highs around 26°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 Filakit 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 Filakit peaks around March 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 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 15Dec 13UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Filakit

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec75

Air quality in Filakit 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 Filakit is worst in September — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModeratePoorModerateSep 1639 µg/m³Nov 2228 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan30Moderate
Feb29Moderate
Mar31Moderate
Apr29Moderate
May33Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul31Moderate
Aug32Moderate
Sep40Poor
Oct32Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Filakit 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. Filakit banks about 2,826 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)
Jan237
Feb251
Mar296
Apr296
May301
Jun252
Jul195
Aug184
Sep185
Oct212
Nov205
Dec212

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.

Filakit receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 25 to Jun 3. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 96.7 kWhJul 304.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Filakit?

Filakit sits at 11.7°N, 38.8°E, 2,880 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Nefas Mewch’a, 37 km away.

MersaIbnatHāyk’

Topography around Filakit

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Filakit has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 986 m around an average of 2,719 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,606 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,022 m.

The land around Filakit is covered by cropland (61%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and cropland (44%) and grassland (37%) within 80 km.

3 km
986 m
16 km
1,606 m
80 km
3,022 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Nefas Mewch’a 37 km · Lalibela 49 km · Wegeda 69 km · Debre Tabor 88 km · Weldiya 88 km · Mersa 93 km · Ibnat 97 km · Hāyk’ 105 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 Filakit (11.6667°, 38.8°, elevation 2,880 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).