Climate and average weather in Finote Selam

Finote Selam gets about 2016 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 5.1 months, from around May 14 to Oct 16, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 25.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 462 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 6 mm.

Over a full year, Finote Selam collects about 2016 mm of rain across 174 wet days — roughly 168 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 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

In Finote Selam, 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 5 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 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 21 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 4. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% of the time.

Finote Selam 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 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 15. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

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

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 Finote Selam, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

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