Climate averages 1991–2020
Welk’īt’ē weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Welk’īt’ē: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Waliso (34 km away). In April its highs average 25.1°C, 0.6°C cooler than Welk’īt’ē, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Ethiopia, Welk’īt’ē ranks 20th of 40 for the warmest April highs and 14th of 40 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 40 cities is 26.2°C; Welk’īt’ē is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 82 mm to 185 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Welk’īt’ē climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.0°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 7.9 | 1.9 | 11.712 h |
| February | 26.3°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 11 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| March | 26.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 42 | 7.8 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 25.7°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 82 | 13.2 | 12.312 h |
| May | 23.6°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 185 | 20.7 | 12.512 h |
| June | 20.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 187 | 27.7 | 12.613 h |
| July | 19.7°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 214 | 29.2 | 12.613 h |
| August | 19.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 222 | 28.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 20.4°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 294 | 28.5 | 12.212 h |
| October | 22.6°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 96 | 11.4 | 11.912 h |
| November | 23.9°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 17 | 3.0 | 11.812 h |
| December | 24.5°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 4.1 | 1.2 | 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
- Waliso in AprilEthiopia · 34 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 13.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Butajīra in AprilEthiopia · 67 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 14.7°C · 349 mm rain
- Hāgere Hiywet in AprilEthiopia · 78 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 187 mm rain
- Hosa’ina in AprilEthiopia · 82 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.3°C · 286 mm rain
- Ziway in AprilEthiopia · 110 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 56 mm rain
- K’olīto in AprilEthiopia · 112 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.0°C · 121 mm rain
- Mek’ī in AprilEthiopia · 115 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 17.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Sebeta in AprilEthiopia · 116 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 12.2°C · 124 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Welk’īt’ē) is explained once on the Welk’īt’ē year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.