Climate and average weather in Hāyk’

In Hāyk’, the summers are warm, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: mid September to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Hāyk’ typically varies from 10°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 30°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Hāyk’ for warm-weather activities are from early May to early July and mid September to late December.

Hottest
Jun
28°
Coldest
Jan
10°
Wettest
Aug
131 mm
Driest
Jun
9 mm
Rain / yr
735 mm
119 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,968 m
11.3°N
Clearest
Nov
31% cloud

Hāyk’ 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 September to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Hāyk’ stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 10°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2210
Feb2311
Mar2413
Apr2514
May2615
Jun2815
Jul2615
Aug2515
Sep2514
Oct2412
Nov2310
Dec2210

Average hourly temperature in Hāyk’

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 June afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 10°C.

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

Hāyk’ 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
Jan22° / 10°438.311.47.1
Feb23° / 11°447.911.67.3
Mar24° / 13°10614.611.96.5
Apr25° / 14°1131512.26.3
May26° / 15°477.912.57.2
Jun28° / 15°9212.67.6
Jul26° / 15°10115.612.65.9
Aug25° / 15°13120.912.45.4
Sep25° / 14°591212.16.8
Oct24° / 12°336.111.78.0
Nov23° / 10°253.711.58.3
Dec22° / 10°254.711.38.0

Chance of rain

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

Hāyk’ gets about 735 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 2.8 months, from around Jul 7 to Sep 29, peaking in August at about 71% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 13.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 131 mm over about 21 wet days; June is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 5 · 71%Jun 13 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb298
Mar4615
Apr4915
May268
Jun92
Jul4916
Aug6621
Sep4112
Oct206
Nov124
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Hāyk’ collects about 735 mm of rain across 119 wet days — roughly 61 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 131 mm, while June is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec434410611347910113159332525
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan438
Feb448
Mar10615
Apr11315
May478
Jun92
Jul10116
Aug13121
Sep5912
Oct336
Nov254
Dec255

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Hāyk’, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around August 17 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around December 27. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 28 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 42% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 16 · 84%Mar 21 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb6139
Mar5842
Apr6139
May7327
Jun7525
Jul6337
Aug6931
Sep8317
Oct8020
Nov8119
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 June 12, 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)
Jan11.46:486:13
Feb11.66:476:25
Mar11.96:336:29
Apr12.26:146:29
May12.56:026:33
Jun12.66:026:41
Jul12.66:096:45
Aug12.46:146:37
Sep12.16:146:17
Oct11.76:145:59
Nov11.56:225:51
Dec11.36:375:58

Sunny days

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

Hāyk’ averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.9 months, from around Oct 13 to Jan 7. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 9 sunny days — about 51% fewer than the November peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 1220 daysJul 298 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May16Bright
Jun16Bright
Jul10Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep16Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec19Bright

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 Hāyk’, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% 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 (%)Humid (%)
Jan85150
Feb77220
Mar63361
Apr61372
May83160
Jun9910
Jul85150
Aug72280
Sep89110
Oct9370
Nov9370
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.

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 19 · 8 km/hJan 16 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Hāyk’

In seasonPeak

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

Hāyk’ sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Hāyk’

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Hāyk’ 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 times of year to visit Hāyk’ for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to early July and again from mid September to early March, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 3 · 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
Jan7.1good
Feb7.2good
Mar6.5good
Apr6.3good
May7.2good
Jun7.6ideal
Jul6.0good
Aug5.5fair
Sep6.8good
Oct8.0ideal
Nov8.3ideal
Dec7.9ideal

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 Hāyk’ for hot-weather activities is from mid May to early July, with a peak score in the second week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 12 · 8.4

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 Hāyk’, 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 June (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 22°C), pack rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Hāyk’ sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Hāyk’ 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 Hāyk’ peaks around March 20 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 20UV 15Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Hāyk’

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb7.56
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov75
Dec75

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

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateSep 942 µg/m³Nov 1729 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan32Moderate
Feb33Moderate
Mar35Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May36Poor
Jun42Poor
Jul39Poor
Aug41Poor
Sep42Poor
Oct31Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec31Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Hāyk’ 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. Hāyk’ banks about 3,128 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan185
Feb199
Mar258
Apr276
May323
Jun348
Jul334
Aug303
Sep281
Oct247
Nov196
Dec178

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.

Hāyk’ receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.3 and 6.6 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 186.6 kWhJan 135.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Intense
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Hāyk’?

Hāyk’ sits at 11.3°N, 39.7°E, 1,968 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Dessie, 19 km away.

Topography around Hāyk’

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Hāyk’ has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 601 m around an average of 2,033 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,819 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,645 m.

The land around Hāyk’ is covered by cropland (46%) and shrubs (35%) within 3 km, cropland (40%) and shrubs (35%) within 16 km, and shrubs (39%), cropland (33%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
601 m
16 km
1,819 m
80 km
3,645 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Dessie 19 km · Kombolcha 25 km · Batī 38 km · Mersa 41 km · Harbu 44 km · Sifra 50 km · Weldiya 60 km · Kemisē 68 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 Hāyk’ (11.3°, 39.6833°, elevation 1,968 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).