Climate averages 1991–2020
Ādīgrat weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ādīgrat: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 68 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 47 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Adwa (62 km away). In May its highs average 29.6°C, 5.6°C warmer than Ādīgrat, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Ādīgrat ranks 24th of 40 for the warmest May highs and 14th of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Ādīgrat is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 24.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 68 mm to 79 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages 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
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Adwa in MayEthiopia · 62 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 15.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Aksum in MayEthiopia · 81 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 15.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Mek'ele in MayEthiopia · 87 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 26 mm rain
- Inda Silasē in MayEthiopia · 129 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 17.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Asmara in MayEritrea · 131 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 13.7°C · 47 mm rain
- Keren in MayEritrea · 199 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 20 mm rain
- Alamata in MayEthiopia · 207 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 17.3°C · 27 mm rain
- Weldiya in MayEthiopia · 273 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 15.8°C · 59 mm rain
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 limitsHow 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.