Climate and average weather in Leku

In Leku, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid November to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Leku typically varies from 10°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 29°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Leku for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid March.

Hottest
Feb
26°
Coldest
Jul
12°
Wettest
May
233 mm
Driest
Jan
26 mm
Rain / yr
1533 mm
206 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,873 m
6.9°N
Clearest
Dec
50% cloud

Leku is human settlement in Ethiopia.

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

Leku 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 November to mid March.

Clouds and sunshine — see detailsovercastclearPrecipitation — see detailsprecipitation: 277 mmHumidity comfort — see detailshumiditycomfortableTemperature — see detailswarmmildBest time to visit — see detailstravel score: 8.2JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Leku stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 26°C and low of 11°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 12°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

5°10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2410
Feb2611
Mar2512
Apr2312
May2212
Jun2012
Jul1912
Aug1912
Sep2111
Oct2111
Nov2210
Dec2310

Average hourly temperature in Leku

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 February afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 12°C.

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

Leku 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
Jan24° / 10°264.511.67.9
Feb26° / 11°344.811.87.4
Mar25° / 12°9811.9126.5
Apr23° / 12°21120.612.15.0
May22° / 12°23325.512.34.2
Jun20° / 12°13125.712.43.9
Jul19° / 12°12425.512.43.8
Aug19° / 12°15026.312.23.8
Sep21° / 11°22526124.0
Oct21° / 11°20121.611.84.7
Nov22° / 10°749.511.76.8
Dec23° / 10°26411.68.0

Chance of rain

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

Leku gets about 1533 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.7 months, from around Apr 3 to Oct 24, peaking in September at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 22.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 233 mm over about 26 wet days; January is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 26 · 88%Dec 22 · 11%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan145
Feb185
Mar3812
Apr6821
May8226
Jun8626
Jul8326
Aug8526
Sep8626
Oct7022
Nov3210
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Leku collects about 1533 mm of rain across 206 wet days — roughly 128 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 233 mm, while January is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2634982112331311241502252017426
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan265
Feb345
Mar9812
Apr21121
May23326
Jun13126
Jul12426
Aug15026
Sep22526
Oct20122
Nov7410
Dec264

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Leku, 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 October 24 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around April 5. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 65% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 6 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% 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 19 · 67%Jul 23 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5446
Mar4357
Apr2674
May2476
Jun2080
Jul694
Aug892
Sep2080
Oct2971
Nov5347
Dec6535

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 26, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:466:25
Feb11.86:486:34
Mar12.06:376:34
Apr12.16:226:31
May12.36:136:32
Jun12.46:156:38
Jul12.46:216:43
Aug12.26:246:37
Sep12.06:196:22
Oct11.86:166:07
Nov11.76:216:02
Dec11.66:346:10

Sunny days

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

Leku averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Oct 29 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 1711 daysJul 50 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec11Mixed

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 Leku, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in November, 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 (%)
Jan982
Feb964
Mar8812
Apr6238
May3664
Jun5347
Jul7723
Aug7426
Sep6535
Oct6535
Nov8614
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.

Wind in Leku is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/h — calm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 14 · 6 km/hOct 8 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Leku

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Leku 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 Leku for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 30 · 8.2

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
Jan7.9ideal
Feb7.4good
Mar6.4good
Apr5.0fair
May4.2fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct4.8fair
Nov6.7good
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 Leku for hot-weather activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 2 · 7.0

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 Leku, 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 February (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 19°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Leku sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 11°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Leku 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 Leku peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 22 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 15Nov 22UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Leku

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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Leku 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 Leku is worst in December — around 73 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.9× the cleanest month (August, 39 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyDec 1872 µg/m³Aug 1440 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan69Unhealthy
Feb61Unhealthy
Mar53Poor
Apr45Poor
May41Poor
Jun44Poor
Jul42Poor
Aug39Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct54Poor
Nov67Unhealthy
Dec73Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Leku 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. Leku banks about 2,456 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan228
Feb235
Mar269
Apr235
May215
Jun177
Jul165
Aug171
Sep177
Oct194
Nov189
Dec200

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.

Leku receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Oct 26 to May 2. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 276.4 kWhJul 214.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Leku?

Leku sits at 6.9°N, 38.4°E, 1,873 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Yirga ‘Alem, 14 km away.

Topography around Leku

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Leku has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 128 m around an average of 1,862 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,082 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,504 m.

The land around Leku is covered by shrubs (47%) and trees (42%) within 3 km, shrubs (56%) and trees (31%) within 16 km, and cropland (38%) and trees (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
128 m
16 km
1,082 m
80 km
2,504 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Yirga ‘Alem 14 km · Awasa 21 km · Wendo 31 km · Ch’iko 34 km · Dimtu 36 km · Bedēsa 40 km · Shashamane 40 km · Kofelē 43 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 Leku (6.8731°, 38.4442°, elevation 1,873 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).