Climate and average weather in Intich’o

In Intich’o, 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 September to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Intich’o typically varies from 8°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 30°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Intich’o for warm-weather activities is from mid September to early April.

Hottest
Apr
27°
Coldest
Aug
13°
Wettest
Aug
356 mm
Driest
Dec
2 mm
Rain / yr
933 mm
102 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,998 m
14.3°N
Clearest
Dec
24% cloud

Intich’o is town in Tigray, Ethiopia.

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

Intich’o 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 April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Intich’o stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 27°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 13°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan259
Feb2610
Mar2712
Apr2713
May2713
Jun2613
Jul2213
Aug2113
Sep2311
Oct2410
Nov249
Dec248

Average hourly temperature in Intich’o

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 April afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 13°C.

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

Intich’o 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° / 40.911.29.0
Feb26° / 10°30.611.58.6
Mar27° / 12°193.511.97.8
Apr27° / 13°266.212.37.3
May27° / 13°376.112.77.3
Jun26° / 13°7611.512.86.5
Jul22° / 13°30629.212.83.8
Aug21° / 13°35629.512.53.7
Sep23° / 11°8310.212.17.1
Oct24° / 10°14211.78.7
Nov24° / 71.411.39.0
Dec24° / 20.511.29.3

Chance of rain

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

Intich’o gets about 933 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 3.2 months, from around Jun 12 to Sep 16, peaking in July at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 5.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 356 mm over about 30 wet days; December is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 98%Feb 5 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb21
Mar114
Apr216
May206
Jun4012
Jul9329
Aug9430
Sep3610
Oct62
Nov51
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Intich’o collects about 933 mm of rain across 102 wet days — roughly 78 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 356 mm, while December is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 80% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4319263776306356831472
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb31
Mar194
Apr266
May376
Jun7612
Jul30629
Aug35630
Sep8310
Oct142
Nov71
Dec21

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Intich’o, 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 12 and lasts for 8.8 months, ending around June 5. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 6 and lasts for 3.2 months, ending around September 11. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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 24 · 91%Aug 2 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb8713
Mar8119
Apr7921
May7327
Jun6238
Jul2773
Aug2872
Sep7327
Oct8317
Nov8911
Dec8911

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)
Jan11.26:556:10
Feb11.56:526:24
Mar11.96:366:30
Apr12.36:146:33
May12.76:006:39
Jun12.85:586:49
Jul12.86:066:52
Aug12.56:136:42
Sep12.16:156:20
Oct11.76:185:59
Nov11.36:295:48
Dec11.26:455:54

Sunny days

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

Intich’o 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 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 26. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2423 daysJul 301 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr15Bright
May13Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep12Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov21Bright
Dec23Bright

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 Intich’o, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% 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 (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May9640
Jun82180
Jul19810
Aug11871
Sep76240
Oct9910
Nov10000
Dec10000

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 Intich’o is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Oct 7 to May 15. The windiest month is April, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 20 to Oct 6, with August the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeApr 11 · 8 km/hAug 30 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Intich’o

In seasonPeak

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

Intich’o's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Intich’o sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Intich’o

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Intich’o 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 Intich’o for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid September to early April, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 9.3

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
Jan9.0ideal
Feb8.6ideal
Mar7.8ideal
Apr7.3good
May7.3good
Jun6.5good
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep7.0good
Oct8.7ideal
Nov9.0ideal
Dec9.2ideal

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 Intich’o for hot-weather activities is from late September to mid June, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 27 · 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 Intich’o, 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.

Intich’o packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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 April, Intich’o sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Intich’o 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 Intich’o peaks around April 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 10UV 15Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Intich’o

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 April 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
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Intich’o 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 Intich’o is worst in June — around 28 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1628 µg/m³Nov 1721 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar26Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun28Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep27Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Intich’o 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. Intich’o banks about 2,871 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)
Jan206
Feb228
Mar290
Apr300
May314
Jun283
Jul230
Aug225
Sep215
Oct207
Nov187
Dec186

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.

Intich’o receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Jan 21 to Jun 11. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 107.0 kWhJul 304.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.8Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Intich’o?

Intich’o sits at 14.3°N, 39.1°E, 1,998 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Adwa, 30 km away.

Mekele

Topography around Intich’o

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Intich’o has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 517 m around an average of 2,078 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,258 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,999 m.

The land around Intich’o is covered by cropland (51%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, cropland (50%), grassland (26%) and shrubs (21%) within 16 km, and grassland (41%), cropland (31%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
517 m
16 km
1,258 m
80 km
2,999 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Adwa 30 km · Ādīgrat 34 km · Idaga Hamus 46 km · Aksum 49 km · Wik’ro 73 km · Mendefera 77 km · Ābīy Ādī 82 km · Mekele 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 Intich’o (14.2789°, 39.15°, elevation 1,998 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).