Climate and average weather in Gobēsa

In Gobēsa, 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: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gobēsa typically varies from 7°C to 24°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 26°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
24°
Coldest
Oct
Wettest
Aug
299 mm
Driest
Dec
5 mm
Rain / yr
1203 mm
148 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,349 m
7.6°N
Clearest
Dec
37% cloud

Gobēsa is Ethiopian town.

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

Gobēsa 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Gobēsa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 24°C and low of 9°C; the coolest is October, with an average low of 9°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 13°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)
Jan238
Feb249
Mar2410
Apr2210
May2310
Jun2310
Jul2110
Aug2110
Sep2110
Oct209
Nov218
Dec227

Average hourly temperature in Gobēsa

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in October, near C.

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

Gobēsa 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
Jan23° / 122.211.68.4
Feb24° / 192.511.78.4
Mar24° / 10°68811.97.5
Apr22° / 10°12315.912.25.8
May23° / 10°9612.412.36.4
Jun23° / 10°9314.412.46.1
Jul21° / 10°24227.512.44.0
Aug21° / 10°29928.312.23.9
Sep21° / 10°16019.8125.1
Oct20° / 6711.611.86.2
Nov21° / 193.911.77.6
Dec22° / 51.611.68.3

Chance of rain

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

Gobēsa gets about 1203 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 11 to Oct 13, peaking in July at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 22.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 299 mm over about 28 wet days; December is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 25 · 94%Dec 22 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb103
Mar268
Apr5116
May4112
Jun4914
Jul8828
Aug9028
Sep6620
Oct3812
Nov144
Dec62

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gobēsa collects about 1203 mm of rain across 148 wet days — roughly 100 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 299 mm, while December is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec121968123969324229916067195
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan122
Feb193
Mar688
Apr12316
May9612
Jun9314
Jul24228
Aug29928
Sep16020
Oct6712
Nov194
Dec52

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gobēsa, 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 4.5 months, ending around March 17. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 1 and lasts for 2.0 months, ending around August 29. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 · 78%Aug 1 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb6931
Mar6040
Apr4357
May5545
Jun6040
Jul4654
Aug4753
Sep6337
Oct5347
Nov6634
Dec7525

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 17, 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)
Jan11.66:436:19
Feb11.76:446:29
Mar11.96:336:30
Apr12.26:176:27
May12.36:086:29
Jun12.46:096:35
Jul12.46:166:40
Aug12.26:196:34
Sep12.06:156:18
Oct11.86:126:02
Nov11.76:185:57
Dec11.66:316:05

Sunny days

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

Gobēsa averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Nov 3 to Mar 28. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1618 daysAug 23 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar12Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
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 Gobēsa, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)
Jan100
Feb100
Mar100
Apr100
May100
Jun100
Jul100
Aug100
Sep100
Oct100
Nov100
Dec100

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 27 · 7 km/hAug 7 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Gobēsa

In seasonPeak

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

Gobēsa'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 Gobēsa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Gobēsa 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 Gobēsa for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 31 · 8.5

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
Jan8.4ideal
Feb8.4ideal
Mar7.4good
Apr5.8good
May6.4good
Jun6.1good
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep5.1fair
Oct6.2good
Nov7.6ideal
Dec8.3ideal

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 21 · 7.0

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 Gobēsa, 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.

Gobēsa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 24°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Gobēsa sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 9°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes.

UV index (midday) in Gobēsa 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 Gobēsa peaks around March 17 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 12 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 17UV 16Nov 23UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr16Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Gobēsa

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 7 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)
Jan86.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Gobēsa 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 Gobēsa is worst in June — around 28 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (January, 15 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1927 µg/m³Jan 1715 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun28Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep23Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gobēsa 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. Gobēsa banks about 2,060 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan171
Feb178
Mar207
Apr190
May202
Jun189
Jul178
Aug170
Sep154
Oct147
Nov132
Dec142

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.

Gobēsa receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Dec 10 to May 28. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 22% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 276.8 kWhJul 265.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov6.0Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Gobēsa?

Gobēsa sits at 7.6°N, 39.5°E, 2,349 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Bek’ojī, 29 km away.

Topography around Gobēsa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gobēsa has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 254 m around an average of 2,381 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,179 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,123 m.

The land around Gobēsa is covered by cropland (68%) within 3 km, cropland (62%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (65%) within 80 km.

3 km
254 m
16 km
2,179 m
80 km
3,123 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bek’ojī 29 km · Sagurē 41 km · Āsela 55 km · Huruta 62 km · Īteya 65 km · Āsasa 66 km · Sīrē 78 km · Bale Robe 78 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 Gobēsa (7.6167°, 39.5°, elevation 2,349 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).