Climate and average weather in Hartīshēk

In Hartīshēk, the weather is warm, showery, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: mid October to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Hartīshēk typically varies from 12°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 Hartīshēk for warm-weather activities are from late May to early October and mid October to late March.

Hottest
Mar
28°
Coldest
Jul
16°
Wettest
Apr
70 mm
Driest
Jan
4 mm
Rain / yr
291 mm
57 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,612 m
9.2°N
Clearest
Dec
26% cloud

Hartīshēk is human settlement.

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

Hartīshēk 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Hartīshēk stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 16°C and high of 24°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)
Jan2612
Feb2713
Mar2815
Apr2716
May2617
Jun2516
Jul2416
Aug2516
Sep2617
Oct2615
Nov2513
Dec2512

Average hourly temperature in Hartīshēk

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 16°C.

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

Hartīshēk 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
Jan26° / 12°40.811.58.7
Feb27° / 13°60.911.78.3
Mar28° / 15°284.211.97.5
Apr27° / 16°7011.812.26.3
May26° / 17°6113.112.46.3
Jun25° / 16°102.412.58.0
Jul24° / 16°143.812.58.1
Aug25° / 16°174.812.37.8
Sep26° / 17°174.412.17.7
Oct26° / 15°457.511.87.4
Nov25° / 13°152.411.68.5
Dec25° / 12°51.111.58.9

Chance of rain

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

Hartīshēk gets about 291 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.6 months, from around Mar 20 to Jun 6, peaking in May at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 2.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 70 mm over about 12 wet days; January is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 50%Jan 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb41
Mar144
Apr3812
May4113
Jun102
Jul124
Aug165
Sep164
Oct228
Nov92
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Hartīshēk collects about 291 mm of rain across 57 wet days — roughly 24 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 70 mm, while January is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 60% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec462870611014171745155
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb61
Mar284
Apr7012
May6113
Jun102
Jul144
Aug175
Sep174
Oct458
Nov152
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Hartīshēk, 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 23 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around March 15. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 16 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around August 19. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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 · 87%Apr 29 · 50%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb7822
Mar7129
Apr5545
May5941
Jun6337
Jul6238
Aug6832
Sep7921
Oct7030
Nov7921
Dec8515

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 22, 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)
Jan11.56:306:01
Feb11.76:306:12
Mar11.96:186:14
Apr12.26:016:13
May12.45:506:15
Jun12.55:516:23
Jul12.55:586:27
Aug12.36:026:20
Sep12.15:596:02
Oct11.85:585:45
Nov11.66:055:39
Dec11.56:195:47

Sunny days

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

Hartīshēk averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Oct 24 to Mar 20. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 9 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1522 daysApr 277 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec22Bright

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 Hartīshēk, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around March 22 to June 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 46% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 11 to March 21, 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 12 · 100%May 8 · 45%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9460
Feb9181
Mar77176
Apr383230
May114346
Jun43507
Jul78220
Aug83170
Sep74242
Oct62317
Nov81163
Dec9281

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 Hartīshēk is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around May 23 to Sep 20. The windiest month is July, averaging about 23 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 21 to May 22, with April the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezywindyJul 12 · 23 km/hApr 13 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May12light breeze
Jun20breezy
Jul23breezy
Aug21breezy
Sep15light breeze
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Hartīshēk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Hartīshēk 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 Hartīshēk for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 19 · 9.0

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
Jan8.7ideal
Feb8.3ideal
Mar7.5good
Apr6.3good
May6.4good
Jun8.0ideal
Jul8.1ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.7ideal
Oct7.4good
Nov8.4ideal
Dec8.9ideal

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 Hartīshēk for hot-weather activities run from early June to late July and again from early August to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 8.5

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 Hartīshēk, 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.

Hartīshēk packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Hartīshēk sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Hartīshēk 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 Hartīshēk peaks around March 18 at about 16 (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 18UV 16Dec 10UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Hartīshēk

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
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Hartīshēk 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 Hartīshēk is worst in July — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (November, 10 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateGoodJul 1421 µg/m³Nov 1610 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar12Good
Apr10Good
May10Good
Jun19Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Hartīshēk 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. Hartīshēk banks about 3,769 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan274
Feb286
Mar357
Apr348
May351
Jun324
Jul310
Aug324
Sep339
Oct321
Nov275
Dec261

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.

Hartīshēk receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Oct 16 to May 1. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 286.9 kWhJun 215.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.8Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Hartīshēk?

Hartīshēk sits at 9.2°N, 43.4°E, 1,612 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Tog Wajaale, 49 km away.

Topography around Hartīshēk

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Hartīshēk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 60 m around an average of 1,612 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 248 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,191 m.

The land around Hartīshēk is covered by grassland (69%) and cropland (21%) within 3 km, grassland (83%) within 16 km, and grassland (55%) and shrubs (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
60 m
16 km
248 m
80 km
1,191 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Tog Wajaale 49 km · Gedeb 50 km · Jijiga 64 km · Gebiley 67 km · Baki 82 km · Borama 89 km · Hargeysa 90 km · Chinahsen 90 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 Hartīshēk (9.1572°, 43.3542°, elevation 1,612 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).