Climate and average weather in Mehal Mēda

In Mehal Mēda, 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: early October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mehal Mēda typically varies from 8°C to 23°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 26°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 Mehal Mēda for warm-weather activities are from early May to late June and early October to late December.

Hottest
Jun
23°
Coldest
Dec
Wettest
Aug
677 mm
Driest
Nov
35 mm
Rain / yr
2677 mm
187 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
3,080 m
10.3°N
Clearest
Nov
37% cloud

Mehal Mēda 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 late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Mehal Mēda stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 23°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 8°C and high of 19°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan199
Feb2010
Mar2111
Apr2212
May2313
Jun2313
Jul2113
Aug2113
Sep2112
Oct2011
Nov209
Dec198

Average hourly temperature in Mehal Mēda

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near C.

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

Mehal Mēda 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
Jan19° / 8912.411.56.0
Feb20° / 10°10111.811.76.1
Mar21° / 11°29218.811.95.4
Apr22° / 12°36618.512.25.3
May23° / 13°14312.112.56.7
Jun23° / 13°12611.412.66.8
Jul21° / 13°48228.212.54.0
Aug21° / 13°67730.112.33.6
Sep21° / 12°27322.612.14.7
Oct20° / 11°578.111.86.9
Nov20° / 355.811.57.3
Dec19° / 386.711.47.0

Chance of rain

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

Mehal Mēda gets about 2677 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 3.3 months, from around Jun 23 to Oct 1, peaking in August at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 4.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 677 mm over about 30 wet days; November is the driest, with 35 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 11 · 98%Nov 4 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3912
Feb4312
Mar6019
Apr6119
May3912
Jun4011
Jul8928
Aug9630
Sep7423
Oct288
Nov196
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mehal Mēda collects about 2677 mm of rain across 187 wet days — roughly 223 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 677 mm, while November is the driest at just 35 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700750800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec89101292366143126482677273573538
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8912
Feb10112
Mar29219
Apr36619
May14312
Jun12611
Jul48228
Aug67730
Sep27323
Oct578
Nov356
Dec387

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mehal Mēda, 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 2 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around January 4. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 28 and lasts for 2.2 months, ending around September 1. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 56% 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 · 78%Aug 3 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb6139
Mar5347
Apr4951
May6337
Jun6634
Jul4555
Aug4456
Sep6733
Oct7327
Nov7723
Dec7129

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)
Jan11.56:476:14
Feb11.76:466:26
Mar11.96:336:29
Apr12.26:156:28
May12.56:036:32
Jun12.66:046:40
Jul12.56:106:43
Aug12.36:156:36
Sep12.16:146:17
Oct11.86:135:59
Nov11.56:215:52
Dec11.46:366:00

Sunny days

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

Mehal Mēda averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Oct 3 to Jan 14. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 3 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the November peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightNov 1217 daysAug 42 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec16Bright

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 Mehal Mēda, 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
Feb982
Mar937
Apr8911
May964
Jun991
Jul937
Aug8020
Sep973
Oct1000
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 Mehal Mēda is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMay 25 · 8 km/hJan 17 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Mehal Mēda

In seasonPeak

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

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

Mehal Mēda 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 Mehal Mēda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Mehal Mēda 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 Mehal Mēda for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to late June and again from early October to mid January, with a peak score in the first week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 2 · 7.5

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
Jan6.1good
Feb6.1good
Mar5.4fair
Apr5.3fair
May6.6good
Jun6.7good
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep4.8fair
Oct6.8good
Nov7.3good
Dec7.0good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 5 · 6.1

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 Mehal Mēda, 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.

Mehal Mēda packs about the same all year — highs hold near 23°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, Mehal Mēda sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mehal Mēda 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 Mehal Mēda peaks around March 19 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 19UV 16Dec 11UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug15Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Mehal Mēda

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 7 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)
Jan86
Feb86
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

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

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJun 1844 µg/m³Nov 1729 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan32Moderate
Feb32Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May36Poor
Jun45Poor
Jul40Poor
Aug40Poor
Sep42Poor
Oct31Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec31Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mehal Mēda 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. Mehal Mēda banks about 2,160 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan121
Feb140
Mar187
Apr200
May238
Jun245
Jul219
Aug204
Sep192
Oct171
Nov131
Dec112

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.

Mehal Mēda receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Feb 4 to Jun 5. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 116.6 kWhJul 265.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Mehal Mēda?

Mehal Mēda sits at 10.3°N, 39.7°E, 3,080 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Āt’aye, 31 km away.

Topography around Mehal Mēda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mehal Mēda has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 270 m around an average of 3,078 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,437 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,298 m.

The land around Mehal Mēda is covered by cropland (53%) and grassland (37%) within 3 km, cropland (54%) and grassland (37%) within 16 km, and cropland (45%) and shrubs (37%) within 80 km.

3 km
270 m
16 km
1,437 m
80 km
3,298 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Āt’aye 31 km · Kobo 38 km · Were Īlu 39 km · Robit 44 km · Kemisē 51 km · Abomsa 51 km · Harbu 69 km · Debre Birhan 72 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 Mehal Mēda (10.3121°, 39.6589°, elevation 3,080 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).