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Addis Ababa · 3,860,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:04

Air: Poor

15°

Clear sky

Feels like 15°C

Wind

14 km/h

Gusts

24 km/h

Humidity

37 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:13 Set 18:03 Day 11 h 49 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

15°13°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ E 14 km/h

Gusts 24 km/h

Humidity 37 %

21:00

13°

E 7

00:00

12°

NNE 6

Addis Ababa forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Addis Ababa climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 19 °C in August to 24 °C in March, and the coolest nights (December) average 8 °C.

Day and night differ most in December: 22 °C in the afternoon against 8 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 58% of the annual total; August by itself averages 418 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 1,890 mm of rain — more than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	23 °C	8 °C	19 mm
Feb	24 °C	10 °C	23 mm
Mar	24 °C	11 °C	72 mm
Apr	24 °C	12 °C	149 mm
May	23 °C	11 °C	184 mm
Jun	22 °C	11 °C	277 mm
Jul	20 °C	11 °C	388 mm
Aug	19 °C	11 °C	418 mm
Sep	20 °C	10 °C	289 mm
Oct	22 °C	8 °C	53 mm
Nov	22 °C	8 °C	13 mm
Dec	22 °C	8 °C	8 mm
Whole year	22 °C	10 °C	1,890 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.02° N, 38.75° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Addis Ababa: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.526µg/m³

PM1043µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Addis Ababa

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Addis Ababa, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Addis Ababa yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Addis Ababa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:57 Set 16:17

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Addis_Ababa); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Addis Ababa

Curious about the weather in Addis Ababa on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Addis Ababa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 22 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations