Climate averages 1991–2020

Sodo weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 25.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 12.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 18 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Sodo: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 18 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gununo (14 km away). In January its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Sodo, with 23 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Sodo ranks joint 21st of 40 for the warmest January highs and 23rd of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.1°C; Sodo is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 18 mm to 21 mm.

The annual picture

January 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, selected	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	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

January 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.