Climate averages 1991–2020

Weldiya weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 22.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 12.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 69 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Weldiya: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 12.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 31 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Alamata (66 km away). In January its highs average 23.3°C, 1.2°C warmer than Weldiya, with 38 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Weldiya ranks 36th of 40 for the warmest January highs and 40th of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.1°C; Weldiya is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 77 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

Weldiya climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Weldiya, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	22.1°C12.0°C	12.0°C	69	12.6	11.512 h
February	23.4°C12.7°C	12.7°C	77	11.9	11.712 h
March	24.3°C13.8°C	13.8°C	189	19.6	12.112 h
April	25.4°C14.8°C	14.8°C	167	18.0	12.412 h
May	27.5°C15.8°C	15.8°C	59	9.3	12.713 h
June	29.3°C15.2°C	15.2°C	36	6.1	12.813 h
July	28.0°C15.5°C	15.5°C	288	22.9	12.713 h
August	26.9°C15.0°C	15.0°C	253	24.4	12.513 h
September	26.8°C15.6°C	15.6°C	43	9.5	12.212 h
October	25.4°C15.1°C	15.1°C	25	5.3	11.912 h
November	23.9°C12.3°C	12.3°C	34	5.8	11.612 h
December	22.6°C11.4°C	11.4°C	39	6.9	11.411 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 Weldiya

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