Climate averages 1991–2020

Sebeta weather
in August.

A mild, very wet month: one of the coolest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 20.1°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 11.2°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 426 mm 31 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a mild month in Sebeta: daytime highs average 20.1°C and nights cool to about 11.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 426 mm of rain on roughly 31 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Addis Ababa (19 km away). In August its highs average 19.8°C, about as warm as Sebeta, with 407 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Sebeta ranks 34th of 40 for the warmest August highs and 37th of 40 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 40 cities is 22.8°C; Sebeta is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 426 mm to 303 mm.

The annual picture

August 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

Sebeta climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sebeta, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	22.8°C9.5°C	9.5°C	14	3.4	11.712 h
February	24.1°C10.5°C	10.5°C	18	4.2	11.812 h
March	24.5°C11.8°C	11.8°C	65	10.0	12.112 h
April	24.1°C12.2°C	12.2°C	124	14.7	12.312 h
May	23.6°C11.7°C	11.7°C	155	14.9	12.513 h
June	21.8°C11.1°C	11.1°C	287	24.2	12.613 h
July	20.1°C11.2°C	11.2°C	403	30.9	12.613 h
August, selected	20.1°C11.2°C	11.2°C	426	30.9	12.412 h
September	20.3°C10.2°C	10.2°C	303	26.4	12.212 h
October	21.2°C9.0°C	9.0°C	56	7.0	11.912 h
November	21.9°C9.0°C	9.0°C	12	2.2	11.712 h
December	22.1°C8.7°C	8.7°C	5.6	1.3	11.612 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Sebeta

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