Climate and average weather in Lumamē

In Lumamē, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early October to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lumamē typically varies from 11°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 30°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Lumamē for warm-weather activities is from early October to early March.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Jul
484 mm
Driest
Dec
6 mm
Rain / yr
1849 mm
163 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,452 m
10.3°N
Clearest
Dec
32% cloud

Lumamē 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 early October to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lumamē stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 27°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 20°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2512
Feb2713
Mar2714
Apr2715
May2614
Jun2313
Jul2013
Aug2013
Sep2112
Oct2312
Nov2412
Dec2411

Average hourly temperature in Lumamē

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Lumamē 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° / 12°81.911.58.4
Feb27° / 13°143.111.77.9
Mar27° / 14°538.911.96.8
Apr27° / 15°991212.26.3
May26° / 14°15013.712.56.1
Jun23° / 13°3022612.64.4
Jul20° / 13°48430.912.53.3
Aug20° / 13°45230.912.33.3
Sep21° / 12°22424.912.14.4
Oct23° / 12°42611.87.8
Nov24° / 12°162.911.58.6
Dec24° / 11°61.311.48.9

Chance of rain

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

Lumamē gets about 1849 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 4.4 months, from around May 22 to Oct 2, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 23.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 484 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 14 · 100%Dec 23 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb113
Mar299
Apr4012
May4614
Jun8526
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep8125
Oct226
Nov103
Dec51

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lumamē collects about 1849 mm of rain across 163 wet days — roughly 154 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 484 mm, while December is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec814539915030248445222442166
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan82
Feb143
Mar539
Apr9912
May15014
Jun30226
Jul48431
Aug45231
Sep22425
Oct426
Nov163
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lumamē, 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 24 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around April 20. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 5 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around September 23. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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 7 · 85%Aug 3 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7624
Mar6931
Apr5941
May5644
Jun4456
Jul1585
Aug1486
Sep4654
Oct7426
Nov8020
Dec8317

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 31, 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)
Jan11.56:546:21
Feb11.76:536:33
Mar11.96:406:36
Apr12.26:226:35
May12.56:106:39
Jun12.66:116:46
Jul12.56:186:50
Aug12.36:226:43
Sep12.16:216:24
Oct11.86:206:06
Nov11.56:285:59
Dec11.46:426:07

Sunny days

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

Lumamē averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Sep 27 to Mar 21. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 520 daysAug 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct16Bright
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 Lumamē, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, 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
Feb991
Mar964
Apr8713
May7030
Jun2674
Jul892
Aug595
Sep3169
Oct8515
Nov973
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 Lumamē is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 21 · 6 km/hSep 4 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Lumamē

In seasonPeak

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

Lumamē's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Lumamē sees seasonal dust haze (June), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Lumamē

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Lumamē 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 Lumamē for general outdoor tourist activities is from early October to early March, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 13 · 8.9

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
Jan8.4ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar6.9good
Apr6.3good
May6.1good
Jun4.4fair
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep4.5fair
Oct7.8ideal
Nov8.6ideal
Dec8.9ideal

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 Lumamē for hot-weather activities is from mid October to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 8 · 7.9

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 Lumamē, 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 March (highs near 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 20°C), pack rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Lumamē sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 14°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lumamē 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 Lumamē peaks around March 21 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 21UV 16Dec 11UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Lumamē

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 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
Mar86.5
Apr8.57
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55

Air quality in Lumamē 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 Lumamē is worst in January — around 45 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorModeratePoorJan 1345 µg/m³Aug 1132 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan45Poor
Feb40Poor
Mar36Poor
Apr34Moderate
May33Moderate
Jun40Poor
Jul33Moderate
Aug32Moderate
Sep40Poor
Oct42Poor
Nov40Poor
Dec43Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lumamē 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. Lumamē banks about 3,048 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan268
Feb279
Mar326
Apr321
May309
Jun237
Jul198
Aug198
Sep202
Oct234
Nov234
Dec243

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.

Lumamē receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 15 to May 28. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 56.7 kWhJul 264.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.6Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.2Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.5Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Lumamē?

Lumamē sits at 10.3°N, 37.9°E, 2,452 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Debre Mark’os, 25 km away.

Topography around Lumamē

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lumamē has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 207 m around an average of 2,458 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,201 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,258 m.

The land around Lumamē is covered by cropland (82%) within 3 km, cropland (91%) within 16 km, and cropland (63%) and shrubs (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
207 m
16 km
1,201 m
80 km
3,258 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Debre Mark’os 25 km · Bichena 37 km · Dayē 55 km · Dembech’a 59 km · Gebre Guracha 72 km · Kachīsī 73 km · Mertule Maryam 74 km · Finote Selam 88 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 Lumamē (10.25°, 37.9333°, elevation 2,452 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).