Climate and average weather in Gebre Guracha

In Gebre Guracha, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gebre Guracha typically varies from 10°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 30°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 Gebre Guracha for warm-weather activities are from early January to early March and early October to late December.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Aug
12°
Wettest
Jul
397 mm
Driest
Dec
9 mm
Rain / yr
1585 mm
163 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,539 m
9.8°N
Clearest
Dec
35% cloud

Gebre Guracha is place in Oromia, Ethiopia.

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

Gebre Guracha 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 October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Gebre Guracha 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 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 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2511
Feb2712
Mar2713
Apr2714
May2614
Jun2413
Jul2113
Aug2012
Sep2112
Oct2411
Nov2410
Dec2510

Average hourly temperature in Gebre Guracha

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 August, near 12°C.

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

Gebre Guracha 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°173.511.58.1
Feb27° / 12°244.311.77.6
Mar27° / 13°751111.96.6
Apr27° / 14°7911.512.26.3
May26° / 14°8610.512.46.5
Jun24° / 13°16922.212.65.0
Jul21° / 13°39730.812.53.4
Aug20° / 12°3843112.33.3
Sep21° / 12°26026.412.14.2
Oct24° / 11°616.811.87.6
Nov24° / 10°23311.68.5
Dec25° / 10°92.211.48.7

Chance of rain

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

Gebre Guracha gets about 1585 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 4.1 months, from around Jun 1 to Oct 3, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 15.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 397 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 19 · 100%Dec 15 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan114
Feb154
Mar3511
Apr3812
May3611
Jun7322
Jul9931
Aug10031
Sep8526
Oct257
Nov103
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gebre Guracha collects about 1585 mm of rain across 163 wet days — roughly 132 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 397 mm, while December is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 66% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec172475798616939738426061239
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan174
Feb244
Mar7511
Apr7912
May8611
Jun16922
Jul39731
Aug38431
Sep26026
Oct617
Nov233
Dec92

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gebre Guracha, 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 24 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around April 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 15 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 23. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 30 · 80%Aug 7 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb7030
Mar6238
Apr5743
May5644
Jun5446
Jul2377
Aug1783
Sep4555
Oct7129
Nov7822
Dec7822

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 7, 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)
Jan11.56:516:20
Feb11.76:516:31
Mar11.96:386:34
Apr12.26:206:33
May12.46:096:36
Jun12.66:106:44
Jul12.56:166:48
Aug12.36:216:40
Sep12.16:196:22
Oct11.86:186:05
Nov11.66:255:58
Dec11.46:406:05

Sunny days

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

Gebre Guracha averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around Sep 28 to Mar 15. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1218 daysAug 70 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct13Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec17Bright

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 Gebre Guracha, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, 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
Feb982
Mar946
Apr8911
May8416
Jun6040
Jul1585
Aug694
Sep3070
Oct8812
Nov973
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 Gebre Guracha is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 29 · 6 km/hAug 26 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Gebre Guracha

In seasonPeak

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

Gebre Guracha's monsoon runs July–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 Gebre Guracha

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 13 · 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
Jan8.1ideal
Feb7.6ideal
Mar6.6good
Apr6.4good
May6.5good
Jun5.0fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep4.3fair
Oct7.6ideal
Nov8.4ideal
Dec8.6ideal

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 Gebre Guracha for hot-weather activities is from mid October to late May, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 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 Gebre Guracha, 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 August (highs near 20°C), pack rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Gebre Guracha sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 13°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Gebre Guracha 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 Gebre Guracha peaks around March 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 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 15Nov 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Gebre Guracha

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
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec75

Air quality in Gebre Guracha 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 Gebre Guracha is worst in January — around 42 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorModeratePoorJan 1242 µg/m³Aug 1230 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan42Poor
Feb39Poor
Mar35Poor
Apr34Moderate
May33Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul32Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct41Poor
Nov39Poor
Dec41Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gebre Guracha 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. Gebre Guracha banks about 2,950 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)
Jan242
Feb255
Mar303
Apr306
May319
Jun258
Jul204
Aug198
Sep200
Oct227
Nov219
Dec220

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.

Gebre Guracha receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 19 to May 30. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 76.6 kWhJul 284.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.4Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Gebre Guracha?

Gebre Guracha sits at 9.8°N, 38.4°E, 2,539 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Dayē, 17 km away.

Topography around Gebre Guracha

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gebre Guracha has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 603 m around an average of 2,441 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,872 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,586 m.

The land around Gebre Guracha is covered by cropland (74%) within 3 km, cropland (82%) within 16 km, and cropland (65%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
603 m
16 km
1,872 m
80 km
2,586 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Dayē 17 km · Fichē 37 km · Kachīsī 66 km · Lumamē 72 km · Bichena 76 km · ‘Alem Ketema 76 km · Genet 82 km · Ādīs ‘Alem 85 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 Gebre Guracha (9.8°, 38.4°, elevation 2,539 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).