Climate and average weather in Abim

In Abim, the weather is hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: mid May to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Abim typically varies from 18°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 35°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
May
176 mm
Driest
Jan
13 mm
Rain / yr
1184 mm
148 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,468 m
2.7°N
Clearest
Sep
50% cloud

Abim 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 May to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Abim stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 27°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3219
Feb3320
Mar3220
Apr3020
May2919
Jun2818
Jul2718
Aug2818
Sep2918
Oct2919
Nov3019
Dec3119

How hot and cold Abim 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, Abim feels like about 33°C (around February 22). About 60 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321919
Feb33332020
Mar32322020
Apr31302020
May30291919
Jun29281818
Jul27271818
Aug28281818
Sep29291818
Oct29291919
Nov30301919
Dec31311919

Average hourly temperature in Abim

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 February afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Abim 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
Jan32° / 19°132.411.94.8
Feb33° / 20°162.611.94.2
Mar32° / 20°658.8124.0
Apr30° / 20°14915.812.14.1
May29° / 19°17619.612.14.5
Jun28° / 18°16219.912.24.9
Jul27° / 18°17422.312.14.8
Aug28° / 18°17020.312.15.0
Sep29° / 18°8711.8125.4
Oct29° / 19°9412.411.95.0
Nov30° / 19°538.511.95.2
Dec31° / 19°233.811.85.4

Chance of rain

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

Abim gets about 1184 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 5.4 months, from around Mar 31 to Sep 11, peaking in July at about 75% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 9.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 176 mm over about 20 wet days; January is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 75%Jan 9 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan82
Feb113
Mar289
Apr5316
May6320
Jun6620
Jul7122
Aug6520
Sep4112
Oct3912
Nov289
Dec124

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Abim collects about 1184 mm of rain across 148 wet days — roughly 99 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 176 mm, while January is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13166514917616217417087945323
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan132
Feb163
Mar659
Apr14916
May17620
Jun16220
Jul17422
Aug17020
Sep8712
Oct9412
Nov539
Dec234

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Abim, 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 August 6 and lasts for 2.1 months, ending around October 8. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 65% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 11 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 15 · 69%Apr 27 · 26%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5644
Mar4951
Apr3268
May4357
Jun5050
Jul5248
Aug5743
Sep6535
Oct4852
Nov4654
Dec5842

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, Abim 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)
Jan11.96:596:50
Feb11.97:036:57
Mar12.06:566:54
Apr12.16:446:47
May12.16:386:45
Jun12.26:416:50
Jul12.16:476:55
Aug12.16:476:52
Sep12.06:396:40
Oct11.96:326:29
Nov11.96:346:27
Dec11.86:466:37

Sunny days

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

Abim averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 1.8 months, from around Aug 12 to Oct 5. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 5 sunny days — about 61% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 1613 daysApr 293 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec12Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around April 3 to October 26. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 94% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to April 2, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 90% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 91%May 11 · 5%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan7218100
Feb6721111
Mar4123279
Apr10163539
May053065
Jun065439
Jul067915
Aug1107316
Sep8255215
Oct9334612
Nov2038357
Dec5526181

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 Abim is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 14 to Apr 13. The windiest month is December, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 14 to Oct 13, with June the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 3 · 11 km/hJun 10 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr7calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Abim

In seasonPeak

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

Abim's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Abim

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Abim 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 Abim for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to early February, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 15 · 5.5

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar4.0fair
Apr4.1fair
May4.5fair
Jun4.9fair
Jul4.8fair
Aug5.0fair
Sep5.4fair
Oct5.0fair
Nov5.2fair
Dec5.3fair

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 Abim for hot-weather activities is from early September to late March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 20 · 7.8

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 Abim, 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.

Abim packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Abim sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Abim 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 Abim peaks around March 15 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 16Jun 19UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Abim

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)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Abim 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 Abim is worst in January — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.7× the cleanest month (April, 10 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateJan 1237 µg/m³Apr 1711 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan38Poor
Feb23Moderate
Mar13Moderate
Apr10Good
May12Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec34Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Abim 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. Abim banks about 5,184 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan477
Feb452
Mar499
Apr447
May423
Jun387
Jul381
Aug390
Sep404
Oct438
Nov431
Dec457

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.

Abim receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.3 and 6.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 46.5 kWhJul 205.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.1Intense
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Abim?

Abim sits at 2.7°N, 33.7°E, 1,468 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Kotido, 59 km away.

KotidoLiraDokoloKitgumSorotiMorotoOpitKumi

Topography around Abim

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Abim has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 738 m around an average of 1,357 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 815 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,384 m.

The land around Abim is covered by shrubs (56%) and trees (33%) within 3 km, shrubs (43%) and grassland (39%) within 16 km, and grassland (61%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
738 m
16 km
815 m
80 km
1,384 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Kotido 59 km · Lira 100 km · Dokolo 105 km · Kitgum 109 km · Soroti 110 km · Moroto 112 km · Opit 134 km · Kumi 141 km

Uganda travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,206
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
18%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
29.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 518
Religion
Protestant 45%Roman Catholic 39%Muslim 14%other 2%

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 Abim (2.7017°, 33.6761°, elevation 1,468 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).