Climate averages 1991–2020

Gununo weather
in May.

A warm, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 23.0°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 14.1°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 241 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Gununo · average highYear overview

May is a warm month in Gununo: daytime highs average 23.0°C and nights cool to about 14.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 241 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sodo (14 km away). In May its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Gununo, with 210 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Gununo ranks 32nd of 40 for the warmest May highs and joint 33rd of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Gununo is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 21.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 241 mm to 193 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

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

Every month, side by side

Gununo climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Gununo, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 25.6°C13.3°C13.3°C234.111.812 h
February 26.6°C14.2°C14.2°C285.111.912 h
March 26.4°C15.0°C15.0°C9312.612.112 h
April 24.6°C14.8°C14.8°C21022.312.312 h
May, selected 23.0°C14.1°C14.1°C24126.512.412 h
June 21.6°C13.3°C13.3°C19326.112.513 h
July 20.7°C13.0°C13.0°C23627.812.512 h
August 21.1°C13.1°C13.1°C26028.012.312 h
September 21.9°C13.1°C13.1°C26727.112.212 h
October 22.8°C13.0°C13.0°C16018.512.012 h
November 24.2°C12.6°C12.6°C475.911.812 h
December 25.0°C12.6°C12.6°C182.711.712 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

Distance from Gununo

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 Gununo) is explained once on the Gununo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Āreka lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.