11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ ESE 16 km/h
Gusts27 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ ESE 20 km/h
Humidity 35 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ ESE 9 km/h
Humidity 65 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ ESE 25 km/h
Humidity 36 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ ESE 10 km/h
Humidity 55 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ ESE 28 km/h
Humidity 35 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ ESE 11 km/h
Humidity 58 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ ESE 28 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Mek'ele forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Mek'ele climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 66% of the annual total; August by itself averages 297 mm.
The hottest stretch is May, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 9 °C.
Day and night differ most in January: 23 °C in the afternoon against 9 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
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
23 °C
9 °C
25 mm
Feb
24 °C
11 °C
23 mm
Mar
25 °C
12 °C
61 mm
Apr
25 °C
13 °C
63 mm
May
26 °C
14 °C
30 mm
Jun
26 °C
14 °C
76 mm
Jul
23 °C
14 °C
238 mm
Aug
22 °C
14 °C
297 mm
Sep
24 °C
12 °C
74 mm
Oct
24 °C
12 °C
14 mm
Nov
23 °C
11 °C
14 mm
Dec
22 °C
9 °C
12 mm
Whole year
24 °C
12 °C
930 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.50° N, 39.48° 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 Mek'ele: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1032µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Mek'ele
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Mek'ele, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Mek'ele yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Mek'ele
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:43 Set 16:25
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%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 Mek'ele
Curious about the weather in Mek'ele on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Mek'ele weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Mek'ele, Tigray: 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 18 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 25 °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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