Climate and average weather in Funyan Bīra

In Funyan Bīra, 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: mid October to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Funyan Bīra typically varies from 12°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 30°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Funyan Bīra for warm-weather activities is from mid October to mid March.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Dec
12°
Wettest
May
117 mm
Driest
Dec
13 mm
Rain / yr
755 mm
124 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,076 m
9.4°N
Clearest
Dec
31% cloud

Funyan Bīra 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Funyan Bīra 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 15°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 12°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2412
Feb2614
Mar2715
Apr2616
May2616
Jun2616
Jul2515
Aug2516
Sep2516
Oct2514
Nov2513
Dec2412

Average hourly temperature in Funyan Bīra

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 December, near 12°C.

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

Funyan Bīra 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° / 12°162.811.58.6
Feb26° / 14°193.111.78.1
Mar27° / 15°598.511.97.0
Apr26° / 16°10514.312.25.9
May26° / 16°11717.112.45.6
Jun26° / 16°4710.812.56.6
Jul25° / 15°7616.712.56.0
Aug25° / 16°9418.712.35.7
Sep25° / 16°10116.512.15.9
Oct25° / 14°819.911.87.0
Nov25° / 13°273.711.68.4
Dec24° / 12°132.111.58.8

Chance of rain

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

Funyan Bīra gets about 755 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 3.6 months, from around Jun 26 to Oct 13, peaking in July at about 63% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 26.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 117 mm over about 17 wet days; December is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 29 · 63%Dec 26 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb123
Mar279
Apr4714
May5517
Jun3711
Jul5317
Aug6019
Sep5417
Oct3210
Nov134
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Funyan Bīra collects about 755 mm of rain across 124 wet days — roughly 63 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 117 mm, while December is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161959105117477694101812713
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan163
Feb193
Mar599
Apr10514
May11717
Jun4711
Jul7617
Aug9419
Sep10117
Oct8110
Nov274
Dec132

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Funyan Bīra, 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 25 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around March 8. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 9 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around June 27. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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 · 84%Apr 30 · 45%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7426
Mar6337
Apr5050
May5248
Jun6337
Jul6436
Aug6931
Sep7129
Oct6436
Nov7822
Dec8218

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 20, 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)
Jan11.56:356:05
Feb11.76:356:16
Mar11.96:226:18
Apr12.26:056:17
May12.45:546:20
Jun12.55:556:27
Jul12.56:016:31
Aug12.36:056:24
Sep12.16:046:07
Oct11.86:025:49
Nov11.66:095:43
Dec11.56:235:51

Sunny days

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

Funyan Bīra averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Oct 18 to Mar 11. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 6 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2020 daysApr 185 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar11Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May8Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug8Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct12Mixed
Nov17Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Funyan Bīra, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around March 16 to June 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 25% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 11 to March 15, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 15 · 100%May 4 · 71%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan89110
Feb85142
Mar68276
Apr374419
May175825
Jun36604
Jul51490
Aug50500
Sep50481
Oct64333
Nov84151
Dec9280

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 Funyan Bīra is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around May 27 to Sep 18. The windiest month is July, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 19 to May 26, with November the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 8 · 12 km/hNov 28 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun10calm
Jul12calm
Aug11calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Funyan Bīra

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Funyan Bīra

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 19 · 8.9

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
Jan8.6ideal
Feb8.1ideal
Mar7.0good
Apr6.0good
May5.7good
Jun6.6good
Jul6.0good
Aug5.7good
Sep5.9good
Oct7.0good
Nov8.4ideal
Dec8.8ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Funyan Bīra for hot-weather activities run from mid June to early July and again from mid October to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 7.6

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 Funyan Bīra, 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.

Funyan Bīra packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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, Funyan Bīra sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Funyan Bīra 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 Funyan Bīra peaks around March 17 at about 15 (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 17UV 15Dec 10UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Funyan Bīra

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
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Funyan Bīra 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 Funyan Bīra is worst in June — around 30 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1929 µg/m³Dec 1021 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan22Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May25Moderate
Jun30Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep26Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec21Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Funyan Bīra 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. Funyan Bīra banks about 3,603 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan254
Feb270
Mar339
Apr331
May346
Jun323
Jul310
Aug311
Sep311
Oct304
Nov261
Dec242

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.

Funyan Bīra receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.3 and 6.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 266.4 kWhJul 255.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Funyan Bīra?

Funyan Bīra sits at 9.4°N, 42.3°E, 2,076 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Felana, 16 km away.

Topography around Funyan Bīra

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Funyan Bīra has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 950 m around an average of 2,011 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,683 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,635 m.

The land around Funyan Bīra is covered by shrubs (63%) and cropland (34%) within 3 km, shrubs (57%) and cropland (38%) within 16 km, and shrubs (54%) and cropland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
950 m
16 km
1,683 m
80 km
2,635 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Felana 16 km · Babīlē 20 km · Harar 24 km · ‘Alemaya 34 km · Chinahsen 34 km · Jijiga 53 km · Dire Dawa 54 km · Ārabī 65 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 Funyan Bīra (9.4025°, 42.3175°, elevation 2,076 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).