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Awasa weather

Sidama Region · 422,200 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:06

Air: Fair

19°

Mainly clear

Feels like 19°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

10 km/h

Humidity

50 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

22 %

Storm

Rise 06:13 Set 18:06 Day 11 h 53 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

19°17°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ NE 7 km/h

Humidity 50 %

21:00

17°

NE 3

00:00

12°

E 10

Awasa 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)

Awasa climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 21 °C in July to 27 °C in March, and the coolest nights (December) average 11 °C.

Day and night differ most in February: 27 °C in the afternoon against 13 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 32 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 42 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	12 °C	18 mm
Feb	27 °C	13 °C	21 mm
Mar	28 °C	14 °C	69 mm
Apr	26 °C	15 °C	146 mm
May	24 °C	14 °C	167 mm
Jun	22 °C	14 °C	76 mm
Jul	21 °C	14 °C	77 mm
Aug	22 °C	14 °C	94 mm
Sep	23 °C	14 °C	172 mm
Oct	24 °C	13 °C	144 mm
Nov	25 °C	12 °C	37 mm
Dec	25 °C	11 °C	12 mm
Whole year	24 °C	13 °C	1,030 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 7.06° N, 38.48° 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 Awasa: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.513µg/m³

PM1025µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Awasa

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Awasa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:02 Set 16:14

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 Awasa

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

Awasa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Awasa, Sidama Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 24 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Nazret 187 km 22°

Addis Ababa 220 km 15°

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