Climate averages 1991–2020

Sodo weather
in April.

A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 24.4°C Daytime mean, April

Average low 14.2°C Night-time mean, April

Rainfall 160 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

April is a warm month in Sodo: daytime highs average 24.4°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 160 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes April a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gununo (14 km away). In April its highs average 24.6°C, about as warm as Sodo, with 210 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Sodo ranks joint 30th of 40 for the warmest April highs and joint 29th of 40 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 40 cities is 26.2°C; Sodo is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 22.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 160 mm to 210 mm.

The annual picture

April 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

Sodo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sodo, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	25.3°C12.4°C	12.4°C	18	3.7	11.812 h
February	26.4°C13.3°C	13.3°C	21	4.3	11.912 h
March	26.2°C14.2°C	14.2°C	70	11.5	12.112 h
April, selected	24.4°C14.2°C	14.2°C	160	20.7	12.312 h
May	22.6°C13.6°C	13.6°C	210	25.0	12.412 h
June	21.1°C12.8°C	12.8°C	198	24.9	12.513 h
July	20.2°C12.6°C	12.6°C	238	27.0	12.512 h
August	20.6°C12.7°C	12.7°C	253	26.4	12.312 h
September	21.5°C12.7°C	12.7°C	227	24.8	12.212 h
October	22.4°C12.4°C	12.4°C	128	18.2	12.012 h
November	23.9°C11.9°C	11.9°C	41	6.1	11.812 h
December	24.6°C11.8°C	11.8°C	15	2.7	11.712 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Sodo

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