Climate and average weather in Kobo

In Kobo, 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 late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kobo typically varies from 10°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 28°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 Kobo for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and mid September to late December.

Hottest
Jun
25°
Coldest
Jan
10°
Wettest
Aug
297 mm
Driest
Dec
25 mm
Rain / yr
1238 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,447 m
10.0°N
Clearest
Nov
32% cloud

Kobo 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 Kobo, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Kobo 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 15°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 10°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2110
Feb2211
Mar2313
Apr2414
May2515
Jun2515
Jul2314
Aug2314
Sep2314
Oct2313
Nov2211
Dec2110

Average hourly temperature in Kobo

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 January, near 10°C.

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

Kobo 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° / 10°689.811.56.8
Feb22° / 11°659.211.76.9
Mar23° / 13°1371511.96.4
Apr24° / 14°15614.312.26.3
May25° / 15°537.712.57.5
Jun25° / 15°446.712.67.5
Jul23° / 14°2602512.54.8
Aug23° / 14°29726.712.34.5
Sep23° / 14°8313.412.16.5
Oct23° / 13°265.611.87.9
Nov22° / 11°254.311.58.0
Dec21° / 10°254.411.47.8

Chance of rain

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

Kobo gets about 1238 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 27 to Sep 17, peaking in August at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 12.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 297 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 25 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 2 · 90%Dec 12 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb349
Mar4715
Apr4814
May258
Jun247
Jul7825
Aug8527
Sep4613
Oct186
Nov144
Dec154

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kobo collects about 1238 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 103 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 297 mm, while December is the driest at just 25 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6865137156534426029783262525
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6810
Feb659
Mar13715
Apr15614
May538
Jun447
Jul26025
Aug29727
Sep8313
Oct266
Nov254
Dec254

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kobo, 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 21 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around December 30. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 6 and lasts for 1.5 months, ending around August 20. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 43% 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 12 · 83%Aug 3 · 54%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb6634
Mar6040
Apr5743
May6832
Jun7327
Jul6436
Aug6436
Sep8119
Oct7921
Nov8218
Dec7822

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 4, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:466:14
Feb11.76:456:25
Mar11.96:326:28
Apr12.26:146:27
May12.56:036:31
Jun12.66:036:38
Jul12.56:106:42
Aug12.36:156:35
Sep12.16:136:17
Oct11.86:125:59
Nov11.56:205:52
Dec11.46:345:59

Sunny days

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

Kobo averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Sep 5 to Jan 8. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 9 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the November peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 1519 daysAug 16 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul9Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep14Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec18Bright

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 Kobo, 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 (%)
Jan964
Feb928
Mar8713
Apr8416
May955
Jun991
Jul8713
Aug7624
Sep973
Oct982
Nov973
Dec991

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 16 · 8 km/hJan 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Kobo

In seasonPeak

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

Kobo's rainy season runs March–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Kobo sees seasonal dust haze (June–July), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Kobo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Kobo 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 Kobo for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late June and again from mid September to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 27 · 8.1

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
Jan6.8good
Feb6.9good
Mar6.4good
Apr6.4good
May7.5good
Jun7.4good
Jul4.8fair
Aug4.5fair
Sep6.5good
Oct7.8ideal
Nov8.0ideal
Dec7.8ideal

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 Kobo for hot-weather activities is from early May to late June, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 3 · 7.4

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 Kobo, 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.

Kobo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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 June, Kobo sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kobo 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 Kobo peaks around March 20 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 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 11UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kobo

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
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Kobo 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 Kobo is worst in June — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.7× the cleanest month (November, 25 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorPoorModerateJun 1842 µg/m³Nov 2025 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun43Poor
Jul37Poor
Aug34Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct28Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec26Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kobo 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. Kobo banks about 2,817 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)
Jan169
Feb185
Mar243
Apr258
May299
Jun300
Jul274
Aug261
Sep250
Oct232
Nov184
Dec162

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.

Kobo receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Feb 1 to Jun 3. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 106.6 kWhJul 274.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Kobo?

Kobo sits at 10.0°N, 39.9°E, 1,447 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Robit, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Kobo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kobo has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 812 m around an average of 1,520 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,084 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,137 m.

The land around Kobo is covered by shrubs (57%) and cropland (37%) within 3 km, shrubs (43%) and cropland (43%) within 16 km, and shrubs (42%) and cropland (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
812 m
16 km
2,084 m
80 km
3,137 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Robit 6.0 km · Abomsa 15 km · Āt’aye 37 km · Mehal Mēda 38 km · Debre Birhan 52 km · Kemisē 77 km · Were Īlu 77 km · ‘Alem Ketema 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 Kobo (10.028°, 39.8528°, elevation 1,447 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).