Bako, Ethiopia Climate
The warmest month is February, with an average high of 36°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 20°C. A normal year brings 978 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 Sep 29
- Normal high
- 32°C
- Normal low
- 21°C
- Reanalysis high
- 37°Cin 1993
- Reanalysis low
- 19°Cin 2012
- Chance of a wet day
- 73%
- Daylight
- 12 h 04 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 | 34°C | 21°C | 40°C (2019) | 15°C (2017) | 29 mm | 7.0 |
| February | 36°C | 22°C | 41°C (2016) | 17°C (1999) | 28 mm | 7.5 |
| March | 35°C | 23°C | 41°C (2019) | 16°C (1993) | 78 mm | 16.9 |
| April | 32°C | 21°C | 39°C (2011) | 19°C (1994) | 165 mm | 25.5 |
| May | 29°C | 21°C | 35°C (2009) | 18°C (2013) | 131 mm | 25.5 |
| June | 29°C | 20°C | 35°C (2000) | 18°C (2001) | 76 mm | 19.6 |
| July | 30°C | 20°C | 35°C (2009) | 17°C (2020) | 70 mm | 16.6 |
| August | 31°C | 20°C | 36°C (2002) | 17°C (2020) | 73 mm | 17.5 |
| September | 32°C | 21°C | 38°C (2015) | 17°C (1991) | 69 mm | 17.2 |
| October | 31°C | 20°C | 39°C (2003) | 17°C (1995) | 114 mm | 24.2 |
| November | 31°C | 20°C | 37°C (2005) | 15°C (2008) | 90 mm | 16.8 |
| December | 33°C | 20°C | 38°C (2005) | 15°C (2016) | 55 mm | 11.2 |
| Year | 32°C | 21°C | 978 mm | 205 |
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.
978 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 Bako.
The muggiest month is May, when 90 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | 45% | 49% | 18% | 22% | 11% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 12°C | 41% | 48% | 23% | 21% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 16°C | 51% | 22% | 16% | 33% | 28% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 19°C | 70% | 1% | 2% | 16% | 79% | 2% | 0% |
| May | 20°C | 75% | 0% | 0% | 11% | 87% | 3% | 0% |
| June | 18°C | 70% | 0% | 5% | 54% | 41% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 17°C | 65% | 3% | 19% | 67% | 11% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 16°C | 63% | 4% | 24% | 63% | 9% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 16°C | 58% | 10% | 26% | 52% | 12% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 18°C | 67% | 1% | 6% | 53% | 41% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 17°C | 65% | 6% | 15% | 41% | 38% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 15°C | 55% | 26% | 23% | 32% | 19% | 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 41 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 81 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 August, averaging 7.2 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 13, with 12 h 28 min of daylight; the shortest is Jan 2, with 11 h 47 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 Bako 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 2026-09-29. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.