Climate and average weather in Gurbetē

In Gurbetē, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gurbetē typically varies from 11°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 30°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
28°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Aug
392 mm
Driest
Feb
8 mm
Rain / yr
1974 mm
181 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,002 m
11.4°N
Clearest
Dec
39% cloud

Gurbetē 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 mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from January 23 to May 10, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Gurbetē is March, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from June 28 to September 11, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Gurbetē is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2511
Feb2713
Mar2815
Apr2815
May2515
Jun2314
Jul2013
Aug2013
Sep2213
Oct2312
Nov2412
Dec2411

Average hourly temperature in Gurbetē

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Gurbetē 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°91.911.48.3
Feb27° / 13°81.911.67.9
Mar28° / 15°295.311.97.2
Apr28° / 15°527.612.26.8
May25° / 15°1871912.55.4
Jun23° / 14°29328.812.73.8
Jul20° / 13°37430.912.63.3
Aug20° / 13°3923112.43.3
Sep22° / 13°37727.612.13.9
Oct23° / 12°20216.911.75.8
Nov24° / 12°396.811.57.7
Dec24° / 11°132.811.38.5

Chance of rain

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

Gurbetē gets about 1974 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 5.5 months, from around May 8 to Oct 20, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 31.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 392 mm over about 31 wet days; February is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 8 · 100%Jan 31 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb72
Mar175
Apr268
May6119
Jun9529
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep9128
Oct5517
Nov237
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gurbetē collects about 1974 mm of rain across 181 wet days — roughly 164 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 392 mm, while February is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec9829521872933743923772023913
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan92
Feb82
Mar295
Apr528
May18719
Jun29329
Jul37431
Aug39231
Sep37728
Oct20217
Nov397
Dec133

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gurbetē, 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 15 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 3. 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 May 4 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 14. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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 12 · 84%Aug 2 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7624
Feb7327
Mar6832
Apr6337
May4852
Jun3268
Jul991
Aug1090
Sep3466
Oct5446
Nov7723
Dec8317

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 11, 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)
Jan11.46:596:24
Feb11.66:586:36
Mar11.96:446:39
Apr12.26:256:40
May12.56:136:44
Jun12.76:136:52
Jul12.66:206:56
Aug12.46:256:48
Sep12.16:256:28
Oct11.76:256:10
Nov11.56:336:02
Dec11.36:486:08

Sunny days

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

Gurbetē averages about 8 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 6.5 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 30. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 518 daysJul 150 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
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 Gurbetē, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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
Mar982
Apr964
May6832
Jun2278
Jul694
Aug397
Sep1387
Oct6238
Nov937
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 Gurbetē is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 14 · 7 km/hSep 9 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Gurbetē

In seasonPeak

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

Gurbetē's monsoon runs May–October, 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 Gurbetē

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Gurbetē 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 Gurbetē for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 8.6

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
Feb7.9ideal
Mar7.2good
Apr6.8good
May5.4fair
Jun3.8fair
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.9fair
Oct5.8good
Nov7.7ideal
Dec8.5ideal

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 Gurbetē for hot-weather activities is from late November to late April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 5 · 8.1

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 Gurbetē, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 20°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Gurbetē sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Gurbetē 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 Gurbetē peaks around March 23 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 23UV 15Dec 11UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Gurbetē

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 Gurbetē 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 Gurbetē is worst in March — around 44 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.0× the cleanest month (May, 22 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1443 µg/m³May 2023 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb38Poor
Mar44Poor
Apr32Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep27Moderate
Oct33Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gurbetē 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. Gurbetē banks about 3,112 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)
Jan261
Feb280
Mar345
Apr343
May313
Jun243
Jul206
Aug206
Sep213
Oct231
Nov227
Dec243

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.

Gurbetē receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Dec 29 to May 24. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 36.8 kWhJul 274.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul4.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Gurbetē?

Gurbetē sits at 11.4°N, 37.0°E, 2,002 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Dangila, 17 km away.

Topography around Gurbetē

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gurbetē has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 120 m around an average of 1,978 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 396 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,710 m.

The land around Gurbetē is covered by cropland (56%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, cropland (75%) within 16 km, and cropland (66%) within 80 km.

3 km
120 m
16 km
396 m
80 km
2,710 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Dangila 17 km · Mer’āwī 24 km · Ādīs K’idamē 31 km · Injibara 40 km · Bahir Dar 54 km · Ginja Bet 57 km · Tīlīlī 57 km · Gimja Bēt Maryam 57 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 Gurbetē (11.356°, 36.9545°, elevation 2,002 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).