Climate and average weather in Huruta

In Huruta, 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: mid October to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Huruta typically varies from 10°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 31°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 Huruta for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid June and mid October to mid March.

Hottest
Mar
28°
Coldest
Aug
15°
Wettest
Aug
136 mm
Driest
Dec
4 mm
Rain / yr
584 mm
130 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,030 m
8.2°N
Clearest
Dec
32% cloud

Huruta is town in central Ethiopia.

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

Huruta 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Huruta 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 14°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 15°C and high of 24°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°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2611
Feb2712
Mar2814
Apr2715
May2715
Jun2615
Jul2415
Aug2415
Sep2514
Oct2513
Nov2512
Dec2510

Average hourly temperature in Huruta

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 August, near 15°C.

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

Huruta 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° / 11°61.711.68.5
Feb27° / 12°112.711.77.9
Mar28° / 14°427.511.97.0
Apr27° / 15°5812.212.26.1
May27° / 15°5210.512.46.5
Jun26° / 15°289.312.56.8
Jul24° / 15°8223.612.44.9
Aug24° / 15°13627.412.34.3
Sep25° / 14°11822.6125.0
Oct25° / 13°388.611.87.2
Nov25° / 12°112.811.68.3
Dec25° / 10°41.411.58.7

Chance of rain

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

Huruta gets about 584 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 3.7 months, from around Jun 20 to Oct 9, peaking in August at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 18.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 136 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 20 · 90%Dec 18 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb103
Mar248
Apr4012
May3311
Jun349
Jul7524
Aug8827
Sep7423
Oct299
Nov103
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Huruta collects about 584 mm of rain across 130 wet days — roughly 49 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 136 mm, while December is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec611425852288213611838114
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan62
Feb113
Mar428
Apr5812
May5211
Jun289
Jul8224
Aug13627
Sep11823
Oct389
Nov113
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Huruta, 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 22 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around March 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 13 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 21. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 48% 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 14 · 85%Aug 4 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb7525
Mar6832
Apr5545
May6040
Jun6733
Jul5446
Aug5248
Sep6535
Oct7129
Nov8020
Dec8416

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 5, 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)
Jan11.66:456:19
Feb11.76:456:29
Mar11.96:346:31
Apr12.26:176:28
May12.46:086:30
Jun12.56:096:37
Jul12.46:156:41
Aug12.36:196:35
Sep12.06:166:18
Oct11.86:136:02
Nov11.66:195:57
Dec11.56:336:05

Sunny days

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

Huruta averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Oct 14 to Mar 20. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 3 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1620 daysAug 63 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul6Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct13Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Huruta, 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 (%)
Jan973
Feb937
Mar8713
Apr7425
May7525
Jun8119
Jul6733
Aug5545
Sep5743
Oct8416
Nov946
Dec973

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 Huruta is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 22. The windiest month is November, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 30 to Oct 9, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 8 · 12 km/hSep 15 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul10calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct10calm
Nov12calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Huruta

In seasonPeak

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

Huruta's rainy season runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Huruta

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Huruta 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 Huruta for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid June and again from mid October to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 18 · 8.8

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
Jan8.5ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar7.0good
Apr6.1good
May6.5good
Jun6.7good
Jul5.0fair
Aug4.4fair
Sep5.0fair
Oct7.2good
Nov8.3ideal
Dec8.7ideal

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 Huruta for hot-weather activities run from mid May to mid June and again from mid October to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 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 Huruta, 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.

Huruta packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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 March, Huruta sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 14°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Huruta 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 Huruta peaks around March 16 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 16Dec 10UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Huruta

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
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Huruta 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 Huruta is worst in June — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateModerateJun 1738 µg/m³Nov 2324 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun39Poor
Jul32Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct32Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec24Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Huruta 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. Huruta banks about 3,488 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)
Jan257
Feb271
Mar332
Apr327
May341
Jun314
Jul292
Aug285
Sep282
Oct290
Nov256
Dec241

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.

Huruta receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 16.5 kWhJul 275.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May6.0Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Huruta?

Huruta sits at 8.2°N, 39.4°E, 2,030 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Īteya, 13 km away.

Topography around Huruta

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Huruta has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 328 m around an average of 2,013 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,494 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,106 m.

The land around Huruta is covered by cropland (74%) within 3 km, cropland (87%) within 16 km, and cropland (68%) within 80 km.

3 km
328 m
16 km
1,494 m
80 km
3,106 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Īteya 13 km · Sīrē 24 km · Āsela 33 km · Wenjī 34 km · Wonji 37 km · Adama 45 km · ‘Alem T’ēna 47 km · Sagurē 50 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 Huruta (8.15°, 39.35°, elevation 2,030 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).