Weather in Addis Ababa, month by month

Warmest month
May, 18.1
Coldest month
November, 14.1
Wettest month
August, 246 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Addis Ababa is May at 18.1 degrees and the coldest is November at 14.1, a swing of 4 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in August, about 246 mm, and lightest in January at roughly 12 mm. Over a full year the cell above Addis Ababa collects around 1,082 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in August at 83 percent, and the windiest month is February at 2.5 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 85 per cent of the year total falls in April, May, June, July, August and September.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 9.02, 38.75, covering Addis Ababa on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Addis Ababa, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January15.412 mm55%
February16.927 mm51%
March17.856 mm55%
April17.790 mm65%
May18.189 mm63%
June17.7116 mm68%
July15.9239 mm80%
August15.6246 mm83%
September15.5145 mm80%
October14.434 mm70%
November14.116 mm63%
December14.113 mm59%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Addis Ababa?

May, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Addis Ababa?

November, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Addis Ababa?

August carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Aden, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))