Climate and average weather in Baki

In Baki, the summers are hot, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: mid October to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Baki typically varies from 14°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 34°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jun
32°
Coldest
Dec
14°
Wettest
Apr
83 mm
Driest
Jun
5 mm
Rain / yr
344 mm
68 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,481 m
9.9°N
Clearest
Nov
31% cloud

Baki is human settlement in Somalia.

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

Baki 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.6 months, from May 12 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Baki is June, with an average high of 32°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from November 21 to February 7, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Baki is December, with an average low of 14°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2414
Feb2615
Mar2817
Apr2919
May3120
Jun3221
Jul3120
Aug3121
Sep3120
Oct2817
Nov2515
Dec2414

How hot and cold Baki really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Baki feels like about 33°C (around June 12). About 31 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241414
Feb26261515
Mar28281717
Apr29291919
May31312020
Jun32322121
Jul31312020
Aug31312021
Sep31312020
Oct28281717
Nov25251515
Dec24241314

Average hourly temperature in Baki

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 14°C.

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

Baki 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° / 14°173.511.58.4
Feb26° / 15°112.311.78.2
Mar28° / 17°416.611.96.6
Apr29° / 19°8312.212.25.3
May31° / 20°437.812.45.1
Jun32° / 21°51.312.64.7
Jul31° / 20°287.412.54.7
Aug31° / 21°3710.712.34.7
Sep31° / 20°133.712.15.5
Oct28° / 17°346.211.86.9
Nov25° / 15°253.911.58.2
Dec24° / 14°92.611.48.7

Chance of rain

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

Baki gets about 344 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.4 months, from around Mar 13 to May 23, peaking in April at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 17.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 12 wet days; June is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 21 · 44%Jun 17 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan114
Feb92
Mar217
Apr3912
May268
Jun61
Jul237
Aug3411
Sep144
Oct186
Nov144
Dec93

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Baki collects about 344 mm of rain across 68 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 83 mm, while June is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1711418343528371334259
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan174
Feb112
Mar417
Apr8312
May438
Jun51
Jul287
Aug3711
Sep134
Oct346
Nov254
Dec93

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Baki, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around August 4 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around January 2. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 8 and lasts for 2.5 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 38% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 9 · 88%Apr 20 · 60%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7228
Mar7129
Apr6238
May7030
Jun7129
Jul7228
Aug8119
Sep8614
Oct7822
Nov7822
Dec7822

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 6, 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)
Jan11.56:316:00
Feb11.76:316:11
Mar11.96:186:14
Apr12.26:006:13
May12.45:496:16
Jun12.65:496:24
Jul12.55:566:28
Aug12.36:016:20
Sep12.15:596:02
Oct11.85:585:45
Nov11.56:065:38
Dec11.46:205:45

Sunny days

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

Baki averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Aug 22 to Jan 17. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 11 sunny days — about 41% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1519 daysApr 2310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul15Mixed
Aug15Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct18Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec19Bright

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 Baki, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around February 16 to June 1. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 75% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 2 to October 2, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 93% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 27 · 100%Apr 29 · 16%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan4935160
Feb4035251
Mar2230427
Apr7195718
May11275112
Jun573670
Jul534610
Aug375930
Sep415080
Oct3632311
Nov5026231
Dec5629140

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 Baki is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around May 28 to Sep 19. The windiest month is July, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 20 to May 27, with April the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 18 · 21 km/hApr 21 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May10calm
Jun17light breeze
Jul21breezy
Aug19light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Baki

In seasonPeak

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

Baki sees seasonal dust haze (June–July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Baki

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 15 · 8.7

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
Feb8.2ideal
Mar6.6good
Apr5.3fair
May5.1fair
Jun4.7fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.8fair
Sep5.5good
Oct6.9good
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, Baki suits hot-weather activities for most of the year, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 25 · 8.2

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 Baki, 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 June (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Baki sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Baki 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 Baki peaks around March 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 18UV 15Dec 10UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Baki

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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Baki 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 Baki is worst in July — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (November, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJul 1021 µg/m³Nov 2311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Baki 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. Baki banks about 4,734 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan268
Feb288
Mar398
Apr421
May465
Jun493
Jul492
Aug484
Sep464
Oct394
Nov304
Dec264

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.

Baki receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.5 and 6.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 66.5 kWhJun 205.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug6.0Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Baki?

Baki sits at 9.9°N, 43.4°E, 1,481 m above sea level, in Somalia. The nearest listed city is Ruqi, 10 km away.

Jijiga

Topography around Baki

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Baki has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 256 m around an average of 1,466 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 818 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,961 m.

The land around Baki is covered by shrubs (87%) within 3 km, shrubs (71%) within 16 km, and shrubs (45%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
256 m
16 km
818 m
80 km
1,961 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrain
Nearby: Ruqi 10 km · Borama 23 km · Tog Wajaale 33 km · Gebiley 34 km · Gedeb 42 km · Hartīshēk 82 km · Hargeysa 83 km · Jijiga 88 km

Somalia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / G
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 52% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$661
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
27.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 399
Religion
Muslim 100%ethnic religionist 0%

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 Baki (9.8921°, 43.3853°, elevation 1,481 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).