Climate and average weather in Mot’a

In Mot’a, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mot’a typically varies from 10°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 29°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Mot’a for warm-weather activities are from early January to early May and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Apr
26°
Coldest
Aug
12°
Wettest
Aug
335 mm
Driest
Dec
11 mm
Rain / yr
1356 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,412 m
11.1°N
Clearest
Dec
37% cloud

Mot’a is place in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

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

Mot’a 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 January to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Mot’a stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 26°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 12°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan2410
Feb2612
Mar2613
Apr2613
May2513
Jun2312
Jul2012
Aug2012
Sep2111
Oct2311
Nov2310
Dec2410

Average hourly temperature in Mot’a

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 12°C.

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

Mot’a 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°12311.48.3
Feb26° / 12°18311.68.0
Mar26° / 13°477.411.97.2
Apr26° / 13°476.812.27.2
May25° / 13°10211.512.56.7
Jun23° / 12°15920.812.65.1
Jul20° / 12°32530.812.63.3
Aug20° / 12°33530.712.43.3
Sep21° / 11°2002212.14.7
Oct23° / 11°737.911.87.3
Nov23° / 10°284.311.58.2
Dec24° / 10°112.411.48.6

Chance of rain

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

Mot’a gets about 1356 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 4.3 months, from around May 27 to Oct 3, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 3.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 335 mm over about 31 wet days; December is the driest, with 11 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 21 · 100%Feb 3 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb113
Mar247
Apr247
May3712
Jun7021
Jul9931
Aug9931
Sep7322
Oct278
Nov144
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mot’a collects about 1356 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 113 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 335 mm, while December is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12184747102159325335200732811
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan123
Feb183
Mar477
Apr477
May10212
Jun15921
Jul32531
Aug33531
Sep20022
Oct738
Nov284
Dec112

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mot’a, 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 17 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around April 27. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 9 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 16. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% 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 12 · 83%Aug 3 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb6931
Mar6733
Apr6535
May5941
Jun5347
Jul2476
Aug2674
Sep5644
Oct6931
Nov7921
Dec8218

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 23, 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)
Jan11.46:556:20
Feb11.66:546:32
Mar11.96:406:36
Apr12.26:216:36
May12.56:106:40
Jun12.66:096:48
Jul12.66:166:52
Aug12.46:226:44
Sep12.16:216:25
Oct11.86:216:06
Nov11.56:295:58
Dec11.46:446:05

Sunny days

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

Mot’a 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 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.9 months, from around Sep 28 to Apr 25. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1218 daysJul 280 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct15Mixed
Nov17Bright
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 Mot’a, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, 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
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May973
Jun946
Jul8218
Aug7624
Sep946
Oct991
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 Mot’a is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 23 · 6 km/hAug 11 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Mot’a

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Mot’a

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Mot’a 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 Mot’a for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to early May, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 19 · 8.6

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
Jan8.3ideal
Feb8.0ideal
Mar7.2good
Apr7.2good
May6.7good
Jun5.1fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.4poor
Sep4.8fair
Oct7.3good
Nov8.2ideal
Dec8.6ideal

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 Mot’a for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 5 · 7.7

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 Mot’a, 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 April (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 20°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Mot’a sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 13°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mot’a 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 Mot’a peaks around March 22 at about 16 (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 22UV 16Dec 11UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Mot’a

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
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Mot’a 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 Mot’a is worst in October — around 41 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorOct 2241 µg/m³Aug 927 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan37Poor
Feb37Poor
Mar35Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun32Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct41Poor
Nov41Poor
Dec39Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mot’a 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. Mot’a banks about 2,720 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)
Jan225
Feb244
Mar289
Apr294
May288
Jun227
Jul182
Aug174
Sep178
Oct213
Nov199
Dec207

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.

Mot’a receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jan 15 to Jun 3. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 86.4 kWhJul 284.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Mot’a?

Mot’a sits at 11.1°N, 37.9°E, 2,412 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Ādēt, 47 km away.

Topography around Mot’a

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mot’a has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 517 m around an average of 2,376 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,243 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,955 m.

The land around Mot’a is covered by cropland (68%) within 3 km, cropland (63%) within 16 km, and cropland (71%) within 80 km.

3 km
517 m
16 km
1,243 m
80 km
2,955 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ādēt 47 km · Mertule Maryam 52 km · T’īs Isat 54 km · Wegeda 56 km · Dembech’a 73 km · Bahir Dar 77 km · Finote Selam 78 km · Bichena 79 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 Mot’a (11.0833°, 37.8667°, elevation 2,412 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).