Climate and average weather in Werota

In Werota, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Werota typically varies from 11°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 31°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
29°
Coldest
Jul
14°
Wettest
Aug
451 mm
Driest
Jan
3 mm
Rain / yr
1499 mm
145 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,810 m
11.9°N
Clearest
Dec
26% cloud

Werota is place in Amhara, Ethiopia.

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

Werota 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 October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Werota stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 29°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 14°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2611
Feb2813
Mar2914
Apr2915
May2816
Jun2414
Jul2214
Aug2214
Sep2313
Oct2513
Nov2512
Dec2511

Average hourly temperature in Werota

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 14°C.

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

Werota 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
Jan26° / 11°30.911.48.6
Feb28° / 13°41.411.68.0
Mar29° / 14°184.811.96.7
Apr29° / 15°31612.36.4
May28° / 16°7811.312.56.2
Jun24° / 14°19923.612.74.7
Jul22° / 14°40630.912.63.5
Aug22° / 14°45130.812.43.5
Sep23° / 13°23822.812.15.0
Oct25° / 13°538.211.77.5
Nov25° / 12°132.811.58.6
Dec25° / 11°4111.38.9

Chance of rain

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

Werota gets about 1499 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 4.5 months, from around May 22 to Oct 5, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 451 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 15 · 100%Jan 1 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb51
Mar165
Apr206
May3711
Jun7824
Jul9931
Aug9931
Sep7523
Oct278
Nov93
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Werota collects about 1499 mm of rain across 145 wet days — roughly 125 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 451 mm, while January is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 73% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3418317819940645123853134
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan31
Feb41
Mar185
Apr316
May7811
Jun19924
Jul40631
Aug45131
Sep23823
Oct538
Nov133
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Werota, 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 14 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 2. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 3 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around September 13. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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 17 · 91%Aug 1 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8614
Feb8218
Mar8020
Apr7723
May6634
Jun5446
Jul2575
Aug2971
Sep6832
Oct7921
Nov8713
Dec9010

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 2, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:576:20
Feb11.66:566:32
Mar11.96:416:36
Apr12.36:216:37
May12.56:096:42
Jun12.76:096:50
Jul12.66:166:54
Aug12.46:216:45
Sep12.16:226:25
Oct11.76:226:06
Nov11.56:315:58
Dec11.36:466:04

Sunny days

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

Werota averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.0 months, from around Sep 23 to Apr 23. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2223 daysAug 31 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr14Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct17Bright
Nov21Bright
Dec23Bright

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 Werota, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 9% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 9 · 100%Aug 17 · 90%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb9910
Mar9640
Apr9280
May63352
Jun11827
Jul0928
Aug0919
Sep16823
Oct67330
Nov9280
Dec9910

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 6 · 7 km/hAug 27 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Werota

In seasonPeak

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

Werota's monsoon runs July–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 Werota

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Werota is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Werota for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to early March, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 8 · 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
Jan8.6ideal
Feb8.0ideal
Mar6.7good
Apr6.4good
May6.2good
Jun4.7fair
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.5fair
Sep5.0fair
Oct7.5ideal
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 Werota for hot-weather activities is from mid October to mid May, with a peak score in the second week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 8 · 8.5

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 Werota, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 22°C), pack rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Werota sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Werota 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 Werota peaks around March 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 21UV 15Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Werota

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
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec75

Air quality in Werota 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 Werota is worst in October — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateOct 1631 µg/m³May 1623 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun28Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep29Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Werota 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. Werota banks about 3,375 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)
Jan262
Feb282
Mar351
Apr361
May360
Jun282
Jul237
Aug237
Sep245
Oct267
Nov246
Dec247

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.

Werota receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 19 to May 31. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 86.8 kWhJul 274.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.8Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Werota?

Werota sits at 11.9°N, 37.7°E, 1,810 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Ādīs Zemen, 24 km away.

Topography around Werota

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Werota has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 126 m around an average of 1,823 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 597 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,747 m.

The land around Werota is covered by cropland (82%) within 3 km, cropland (90%) within 16 km, and cropland (66%) within 80 km.

3 km
126 m
16 km
597 m
80 km
2,747 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Ādīs Zemen 24 km · Debre Tabor 35 km · Ibnat 45 km · Bahir Dar 49 km · T’īs Isat 50 km · Maksenyit 54 km · K’ola Diba 70 km · Ādēt 76 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 Werota (11.9167°, 37.7°, elevation 1,810 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).