Climate and average weather in Wanlaweyn

In Wanlaweyn, the weather is humid, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Wanlaweyn typically varies from 23°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 38°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Wanlaweyn for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Mar
37°
Coldest
Jul
23°
Wettest
Nov
89 mm
Driest
Feb
1 mm
Rain / yr
407 mm
71 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
93 m
2.6°N
Clearest
Feb
30% cloud

Wanlaweyn is human settlement.

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

Wanlaweyn 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 late May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Wanlaweyn stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 37°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3523
Feb3624
Mar3725
Apr3525
May3225
Jun3224
Jul3123
Aug3123
Sep3223
Oct3324
Nov3224
Dec3423

How hot and cold Wanlaweyn 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, Wanlaweyn feels like about 40°C (around March 24). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 57 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37352323
Feb38362424
Mar40372525
Apr39352525
May37322525
Jun34322424
Jul33312323
Aug33312323
Sep35322323
Oct36332424
Nov36322424
Dec36342323

Average hourly temperature in Wanlaweyn

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 March afternoons, near 37°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 23°C.

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

Wanlaweyn 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
Jan35° / 23°61.211.93.0
Feb36° / 24°10.311.92.4
Mar37° / 25°122.2122.1
Apr35° / 25°7812.712.12.5
May32° / 25°6713.612.13.5
Jun32° / 24°123.312.14.7
Jul31° / 23°112.312.15.2
Aug31° / 23°82.212.15.0
Sep32° / 23°133.1124.5
Oct33° / 24°8411.711.93.6
Nov32° / 24°8913.911.93.6
Dec34° / 23°264.611.93.6

Chance of rain

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

Wanlaweyn gets about 407 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 2.0 months, from around Apr 3 to Jun 1, peaking in April at about 61% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 9.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 89 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 61%Feb 9 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb10
Mar82
Apr4213
May4314
Jun123
Jul82
Aug72
Sep113
Oct3712
Nov4614
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Wanlaweyn collects about 407 mm of rain across 71 wet days — roughly 34 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 89 mm, while February is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec611278671211813848926
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan61
Feb10
Mar122
Apr7813
May6714
Jun123
Jul112
Aug82
Sep133
Oct8412
Nov8914
Dec265

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Wanlaweyn, 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 November 18 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around April 12. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 13 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around September 4. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 58% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 4 · 87%Jul 13 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb8317
Mar8416
Apr6337
May5743
Jun4753
Jul4258
Aug5545
Sep7426
Oct6535
Nov6634
Dec8119

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. Close to the equator, Wanlaweyn barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.96:146:06
Feb11.96:186:12
Mar12.06:116:10
Apr12.15:596:02
May12.15:536:00
Jun12.15:566:05
Jul12.16:026:10
Aug12.16:026:07
Sep12.05:545:55
Oct11.95:475:44
Nov11.95:495:42
Dec11.96:015:52

Sunny days

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

Wanlaweyn averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Nov 22 to Apr 13. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 6 sunny days — about 74% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 222 daysJul 135 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr12Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov11Mixed
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.

Wanlaweyn is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 88% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 7% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 8%Mar 21 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan7454260
Feb5394880
Mar11156320
Apr0024689
May0010837
Jun0168320
Jul0108640
Aug0108730
Sep0481150
Oct0039610
Nov0124750
Dec32343310

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 Wanlaweyn is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around May 25 to Oct 3. The windiest month is July, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 4 to Dec 22, with November the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 17 · 22 km/hNov 6 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan18light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr11calm
May14light breeze
Jun20light breeze
Jul21breezy
Aug21breezy
Sep19light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov10calm
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Wanlaweyn

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Wanlaweyn 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 Wanlaweyn for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 15 · 5.2

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
Jan3.0poor
Feb2.4poor
Mar2.1poor
Apr2.5poor
May3.5fair
Jun4.7fair
Jul5.2fair
Aug5.0fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.6fair
Dec3.5fair

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 Wanlaweyn for hot-weather activities run from late May to mid October and again from late November to early February, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 17 · 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 Wanlaweyn, 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.

Wanlaweyn packs about the same all year — highs hold near 37°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Wanlaweyn sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Wanlaweyn 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 Wanlaweyn peaks around March 22 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 22UV 15Jun 22UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Wanlaweyn

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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Wanlaweyn 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 Wanlaweyn is worst in November — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (September, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateNov 2215 µg/m³Sep 169 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar12Moderate
Apr10Good
May10Good
Jun11Good
Jul11Good
Aug10Good
Sep9Good
Oct10Good
Nov16Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Wanlaweyn 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. Wanlaweyn banks about 6,764 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan596
Feb558
Mar642
Apr600
May573
Jun529
Jul523
Aug529
Sep534
Oct564
Nov537
Dec578

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.

Wanlaweyn receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Dec 10 to Apr 17. The brightest month is February, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 237.1 kWhJun 235.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb7.1Intense
Mar6.8Intense
Apr6.0Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.0Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Wanlaweyn?

Wanlaweyn sits at 2.6°N, 44.9°E, 93 m above sea level, in Somalia. The nearest listed city is Afgooye, 59 km away.

BuurhakabaQoryooleyMarkaBaidoaBuulobarde

Topography around Wanlaweyn

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Wanlaweyn has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 6 m around an average of 89 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 542 m.

The land around Wanlaweyn is covered by cropland (66%) within 3 km, cropland (55%) and shrubs (35%) within 16 km, and shrubs (67%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
6 m
16 km
12 m
80 km
542 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswetland
Nearby: Afgooye 59 km · Jawhar 70 km · Mogadishu 82 km · Buurhakaba 93 km · Qoryooley 101 km · Marka 101 km · Baidoa 149 km · Buulobarde 156 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 Wanlaweyn (2.6185°, 44.8938°, elevation 93 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).