Climate and average weather in Wik’ro

In Wik’ro, 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 July.

Best: early January to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Wik’ro typically varies from 9°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 27°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Wik’ro for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid June and mid September to late December.

Hottest
May
25°
Coldest
Dec
Wettest
Jul
487 mm
Driest
Dec
11 mm
Rain / yr
1481 mm
138 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,002 m
13.8°N
Clearest
Dec
25% cloud

Wik’ro is human settlement.

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

Wik’ro 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 mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Wik’ro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 25°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 9°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan219
Feb2310
Mar2411
Apr2413
May2513
Jun2413
Jul2113
Aug2113
Sep2212
Oct2211
Nov2110
Dec219

Average hourly temperature in Wik’ro

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 May afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near C.

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

Wik’ro 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
Jan21° / 215.611.37.7
Feb23° / 10°225.711.57.9
Mar24° / 11°5210.911.97.2
Apr24° / 13°7512.912.36.9
May25° / 13°62812.67.5
Jun24° / 13°14413.112.86.4
Jul21° / 13°48729.712.73.7
Aug21° / 13°48030.312.53.6
Sep22° / 12°9511.612.16.7
Oct22° / 11°163.111.78.2
Nov21° / 10°183.711.48.1
Dec21° / 113.111.28.1

Chance of rain

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

Wik’ro gets about 1481 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 3.1 months, from around Jun 14 to Sep 14, peaking in July at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 2.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 487 mm over about 30 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 28 · 99%Oct 2 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan186
Feb206
Mar3511
Apr4213
May278
Jun4513
Jul9530
Aug9730
Sep4012
Oct103
Nov124
Dec113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Wik’ro collects about 1481 mm of rain across 138 wet days — roughly 123 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 487 mm, while December is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 75% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec212252756214448748095161811
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan216
Feb226
Mar5211
Apr7513
May628
Jun14413
Jul48730
Aug48030
Sep9512
Oct163
Nov184
Dec113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Wik’ro, 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 11 and lasts for 8.8 months, ending around June 4. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 5 and lasts for 3.2 months, ending around September 10. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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 11 · 89%Aug 3 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8119
Mar8020
Apr7822
May7525
Jun6139
Jul3169
Aug3268
Sep7426
Oct8416
Nov8713
Dec8713

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:536:09
Feb11.56:506:22
Mar11.96:346:28
Apr12.36:136:31
May12.65:596:37
Jun12.85:586:46
Jul12.76:056:49
Aug12.56:126:40
Sep12.16:146:18
Oct11.76:165:57
Nov11.46:265:47
Dec11.26:425:53

Sunny days

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

Wik’ro averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.5 months, from around Sep 17 to Jun 2. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2122 daysJul 301 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr15Mixed
May16Bright
Jun9Mixed
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep13Mixed
Oct19Bright
Nov21Bright
Dec22Bright

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 Wik’ro, 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
Mar955
Apr919
May937
Jun8020
Jul2179
Aug1882
Sep8119
Oct991
Nov991
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Wik’ro is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around Oct 2 to Jan 3. The windiest month is October, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 8 to Oct 1, with September the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeOct 27 · 9 km/hSep 6 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Wik’ro

In seasonPeak

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

Wik’ro's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Wik’ro sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Wik’ro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Wik’ro 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 Wik’ro for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid September to mid June, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 2 · 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
Jan7.7ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar7.2good
Apr6.9good
May7.5good
Jun6.4good
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep6.6good
Oct8.2ideal
Nov8.1ideal
Dec8.1ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Wik’ro for hot-weather activities run from early February to mid March and again from early April to mid June, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 28 · 7.1

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 Wik’ro, 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.

Wik’ro packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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 May, Wik’ro sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 13°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Wik’ro 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 Wik’ro peaks around March 20 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 20UV 15Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Wik’ro

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb7.56
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Wik’ro 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 Wik’ro is worst in June — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1731 µg/m³Nov 1422 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May25Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Wik’ro 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. Wik’ro banks about 2,498 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan162
Feb179
Mar232
Apr247
May276
Jun263
Jul219
Aug216
Sep206
Oct192
Nov159
Dec147

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.

Wik’ro receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Feb 3 to Jun 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 167.0 kWhJul 305.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep6.0Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Wik’ro?

Wik’ro sits at 13.8°N, 39.6°E, 2,002 m above sea level, in Ethiopia. The nearest listed city is Dolo, 33 km away.

Aksum

Topography around Wik’ro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Wik’ro has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 399 m around an average of 2,038 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,004 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,408 m.

The land around Wik’ro is covered by cropland (47%) within 3 km, cropland (49%) and shrubs (31%) within 16 km, and cropland (28%), grassland (25%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
399 m
16 km
1,004 m
80 km
3,408 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Dolo 33 km · Mekele 36 km · Idaga Hamus 44 km · Ādīgrat 56 km · Intich’o 73 km · Ābīy Ādī 73 km · Adwa 86 km · Aksum 102 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 Wik’ro (13.7952°, 39.603°, elevation 2,002 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).