Climate averages 1991–2020

Ādīgrat weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 20.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 9.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 54 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Ādīgrat: daytime highs average 20.9°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 23 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Adwa (62 km away). In January its highs average 26.5°C, 5.6°C warmer than Ādīgrat, with 4.8 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Ādīgrat ranks 38th of 40 for the warmest January highs and 39th of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.1°C; Ādīgrat is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Ādīgrat climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ādīgrat, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	20.9°C9.4°C	9.4°C	54	12.1	11.411 h
February	22.1°C10.2°C	10.2°C	56	11.0	11.712 h
March	23.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	109	16.1	12.012 h
April	23.4°C12.4°C	12.4°C	148	16.5	12.412 h
May	23.9°C13.5°C	13.5°C	68	9.8	12.813 h
June	24.3°C14.0°C	14.0°C	79	11.4	13.013 h
July	21.7°C13.7°C	13.7°C	330	29.4	12.913 h
August	21.7°C13.8°C	13.8°C	311	28.1	12.613 h
September	22.6°C12.8°C	12.8°C	61	7.7	12.212 h
October	21.6°C10.9°C	10.9°C	24	4.0	11.812 h
November	21.1°C9.8°C	9.8°C	33	5.6	11.511 h
December	20.6°C9.1°C	9.1°C	31	6.0	11.311 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Ādīgrat

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ādīgrat) is explained once on the Ādīgrat year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.