Climate averages 1991–2020

Sodo weather
in August.

A mild, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 20.6°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 12.7°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 253 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a mild month in Sodo: daytime highs average 20.6°C and nights cool to about 12.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 253 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 21 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gununo (14 km away). In August its highs average 21.1°C, 0.5°C warmer than Sodo, with 260 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Sodo ranks 30th of 40 for the warmest August highs and joint 24th of 40 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 40 cities is 22.8°C; Sodo is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 253 mm to 227 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

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	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, selected	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

August 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.