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Bahir Dar weather

Amhara · 350,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:14

Air: Good

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 20°C

Wind

0 km/h

Gusts

7 km/h

Humidity

60 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:21 Set 18:06 Day 11 h 44 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

20°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ N 4 km/h

Humidity 60 %

💧 0.1 mm

00:00

16°

SSE 3

Bahir Dar 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)

Bahir Dar climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 72% of the annual total; August by itself averages 488 mm.

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 15 °C.

From December to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	25 °C	14 °C	4 mm
Feb	27 °C	16 °C	4 mm
Mar	28 °C	17 °C	16 mm
Apr	28 °C	18 °C	28 mm
May	26 °C	17 °C	104 mm
Jun	24 °C	16 °C	271 mm
Jul	21 °C	15 °C	483 mm
Aug	21 °C	15 °C	489 mm
Sep	23 °C	15 °C	246 mm
Oct	24 °C	15 °C	65 mm
Nov	24 °C	14 °C	16 mm
Dec	25 °C	14 °C	5 mm
Whole year	25 °C	16 °C	1,730 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.59° N, 37.39° 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 Bahir Dar: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.59µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bahir Dar

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bahir Dar, 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 Bahir Dar yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bahir Dar

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:57 Set 16:29

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 Bahir Dar

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

Bahir Dar weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bahir Dar, Amhara: 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 20 °C (feels like 20 °C) and the wind blows at 0 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 27 °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