Climate and average weather in Idaga Hamus

In Idaga Hamus, 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 July.

Best: mid September to early January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Idaga Hamus typically varies from 9°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 27°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Idaga Hamus for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid June and mid September to early January.

Hottest
Jun
25°
Coldest
Dec
Wettest
Jul
330 mm
Driest
Oct
24 mm
Rain / yr
1303 mm
158 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,702 m
14.2°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Idaga Hamus is town in Ethiopia.

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

Idaga Hamus 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 early January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Idaga Hamus stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 25°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 9°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan219
Feb2310
Mar2312
Apr2413
May2513
Jun2514
Jul2214
Aug2214
Sep2312
Oct2211
Nov2110
Dec219

Average hourly temperature in Idaga Hamus

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near C.

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

Idaga Hamus 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
Jan21° / 5412.111.36.7
Feb23° / 10°5610.911.56.8
Mar23° / 12°10916.111.96.3
Apr24° / 13°14816.512.36.2
May25° / 13°689.812.67.2
Jun25° / 14°7911.412.86.8
Jul22° / 14°33029.412.83.8
Aug22° / 14°31228.112.54.0
Sep23° / 12°617.712.17.4
Oct22° / 11°24411.78.0
Nov21° / 10°335.611.37.8
Dec21° / 31611.27.6

Chance of rain

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

Idaga Hamus gets about 1303 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 2.7 months, from around Jun 19 to Sep 8, peaking in July at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 28.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 330 mm over about 29 wet days; October is the driest, with 24 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 24 · 98%Sep 28 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb4011
Mar5216
Apr5417
May3310
Jun4011
Jul9329
Aug8828
Sep298
Oct134
Nov186
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Idaga Hamus collects about 1303 mm of rain across 158 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 330 mm, while October is the driest at just 24 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 61% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5456109148687933031261243331
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan5412
Feb5611
Mar10916
Apr14817
May6810
Jun7911
Jul33029
Aug31228
Sep618
Oct244
Nov336
Dec316

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Idaga Hamus, 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 7 and lasts for 9.1 months, ending around June 11. 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 12 and lasts for 2.9 months, ending around September 6. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 11 · 86%Aug 2 · 23%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7822
Mar7426
Apr7426
May7426
Jun6634
Jul3664
Aug3763
Sep7822
Oct8317
Nov8416
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 May 28, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:546:08
Feb11.56:506:22
Mar11.96:346:28
Apr12.36:126:31
May12.65:586:38
Jun12.85:576:47
Jul12.86:046:50
Aug12.56:126:40
Sep12.16:146:18
Oct11.76:165:57
Nov11.36:275:47
Dec11.26:435:53

Sunny days

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

Idaga Hamus averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.0 months, from around Sep 12 to Mar 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 3 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1120 daysJul 291 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep15Mixed
Oct18Bright
Nov19Bright
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 Idaga Hamus, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in March, 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
May955
Jun937
Jul5644
Aug5644
Sep955
Oct991
Nov1000
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 Idaga Hamus is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 21 · 7 km/hJan 13 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Idaga Hamus

In seasonPeak

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

Idaga Hamus's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Idaga Hamus sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Idaga Hamus

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Idaga Hamus 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 Idaga Hamus for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to mid June and again from mid September to mid January, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 27 · 8.4

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
Jan6.7good
Feb6.8good
Mar6.3good
Apr6.2good
May7.2good
Jun6.7good
Jul3.9fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep7.3good
Oct8.0ideal
Nov7.8ideal
Dec7.6ideal

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 Idaga Hamus for hot-weather activities run from early May to mid June and again from mid September to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 1 · 7.2

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 Idaga Hamus, 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.

Idaga Hamus packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Idaga Hamus sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Idaga Hamus 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 Idaga Hamus 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 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 20UV 15Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Idaga Hamus

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
Feb7.56
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Idaga Hamus 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 Idaga Hamus is worst in June — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1831 µg/m³Nov 1320 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar29Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep29Moderate
Oct21Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Idaga Hamus 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. Idaga Hamus banks about 2,600 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan161
Feb178
Mar231
Apr248
May275
Jun274
Jul242
Aug242
Sep230
Oct201
Nov166
Dec153

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.

Idaga Hamus receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Feb 2 to Jun 14. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 146.9 kWhJul 284.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep6.0Intense
Oct6.1Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Idaga Hamus?

Idaga Hamus sits at 14.2°N, 39.6°E, 2,702 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Ādīgrat, 15 km away.

AksumĀbīy Ādī

Topography around Idaga Hamus

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Idaga Hamus has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 535 m around an average of 2,697 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,747 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,418 m.

The land around Idaga Hamus is covered by cropland (49%) and grassland (28%) within 3 km, cropland (39%), grassland (30%) and shrubs (27%) within 16 km, and grassland (27%), bare terrain (25%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
535 m
16 km
1,747 m
80 km
3,418 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ādīgrat 15 km · Wik’ro 44 km · Intich’o 46 km · Adwa 72 km · Dolo 77 km · Mekele 77 km · Aksum 91 km · Ābīy Ādī 94 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 Idaga Hamus (14.1872°, 39.5639°, elevation 2,702 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).