Arba Minch, Ethiopia Climate
The warmest month is February, with an average high of 31°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 15°C. A normal year brings 1116 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Oct 3
- Normal high
- 26°C
- Normal low
- 17°C
- Reanalysis high
- 29°Cin 2005
- Reanalysis low
- 15°Cin 1991
- Chance of a wet day
- 84%
- Daylight
- 12 h 03 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°C | 16°C | 33°C (2006) | 9°C (2017) | 26 mm | 6.4 |
| February | 31°C | 18°C | 34°C (2019) | 12°C (1999) | 27 mm | 6.8 |
| March | 30°C | 18°C | 35°C (2019) | 13°C (1993) | 82 mm | 16.4 |
| April | 27°C | 18°C | 34°C (1998) | 15°C (2003) | 183 mm | 24.8 |
| May | 25°C | 17°C | 31°C (1991) | 14°C (1998) | 160 mm | 26.1 |
| June | 24°C | 16°C | 28°C (1999) | 14°C (2012) | 96 mm | 22.0 |
| July | 24°C | 15°C | 29°C (2004) | 12°C (1993) | 86 mm | 19.6 |
| August | 25°C | 15°C | 29°C (2009) | 13°C (1996) | 96 mm | 20.9 |
| September | 26°C | 16°C | 30°C (1999) | 12°C (1993) | 91 mm | 20.2 |
| October | 26°C | 17°C | 31°C (2003) | 13°C (1992) | 131 mm | 25.1 |
| November | 26°C | 16°C | 31°C (2003) | 11°C (2016) | 89 mm | 15.6 |
| December | 28°C | 16°C | 31°C (2005) | 11°C (2017) | 49 mm | 9.6 |
| Year | 27°C | 17°C | 1116 mm | 213 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1116 mm in a normal year, most in April.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Arba Minch.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9°C | 46% | 80% | 18% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 9°C | 42% | 85% | 14% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 11°C | 49% | 56% | 36% | 7% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 15°C | 68% | 10% | 42% | 48% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 16°C | 77% | 0% | 26% | 74% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 15°C | 76% | 3% | 64% | 33% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 14°C | 73% | 16% | 80% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 14°C | 70% | 20% | 77% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 14°C | 66% | 24% | 71% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 15°C | 71% | 11% | 65% | 24% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 13°C | 64% | 38% | 43% | 19% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 11°C | 54% | 69% | 25% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is December, with the sky 38 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 82 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is July, averaging 9.4 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 15, with 12 h 29 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 15, with 11 h 46 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Arba Minch in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-10-03. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.