Harar climate

Name: Harar
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Harar is warmest in March, with average highs of 26 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 12 °C. May is the wettest month (122 mm) and December the driest (10 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Harar averages 678 mm of rain and 88 days above 25 °C.

Ethiopia · population 157,000 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month March 26 °C
Coldest month December 12 °C
Driest month December 10 mm
Wettest month May 122 mm
Least cloud December 28 % cloud
Hottest on record March 30 °C
Coldest on record January 6.5 °C

What to expectHarar through the year

Harar changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 23 and 26 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 88 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 122 mm against 10 mm in December — 12 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.0 °C	12 mm	31 %
February	25.6 °C	15 mm	34 %
March	25.8 °C	47 mm	44 %
April	24.4 °C	111 mm	60 %
May	23.8 °C	122 mm	62 %
June	23.4 °C	43 mm	57 %
July	22.6 °C	68 mm	61 %
August	22.7 °C	81 mm	58 %
September	23.3 °C	74 mm	48 %
October	23.6 °C	69 mm	48 %
November	23.5 °C	25 mm	33 %
December	23.4 °C	10 mm	28 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	24.0 °C	12.4 °C	17.9 °C	28.3 °C	6.5 °C	9
February	25.6 °C	13.5 °C	19.3 °C	29.9 °C	6.5 °C	20
March	25.8 °C	14.9 °C	20.2 °C	30.0 °C	9.0 °C	19
April	24.4 °C	15.0 °C	19.4 °C	29.9 °C	12.0 °C	11
May	23.8 °C	14.6 °C	18.8 °C	28.4 °C	12.0 °C	7
June	23.4 °C	13.8 °C	18.1 °C	27.2 °C	11.8 °C	5
July	22.6 °C	13.7 °C	17.6 °C	27.4 °C	11.0 °C	3
August	22.7 °C	14.0 °C	17.9 °C	27.1 °C	11.4 °C	2
September	23.3 °C	14.1 °C	18.5 °C	28.7 °C	11.7 °C	2
October	23.6 °C	13.6 °C	18.3 °C	29.4 °C	9.5 °C	7
November	23.5 °C	12.8 °C	17.9 °C	26.8 °C	7.9 °C	3
December	23.4 °C	12.0 °C	17.4 °C	26.4 °C	6.7 °C	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	12 mm	2	12 h/day	31 %	50 %	12 km/h
February	15 mm	2	12 h/day	34 %	47 %	12 km/h
March	47 mm	7	12 h/day	44 %	52 %	13 km/h
April	111 mm	15	12 h/day	60 %	69 %	11 km/h
May	122 mm	20	13 h/day	62 %	78 %	9.2 km/h
June	43 mm	9	13 h/day	57 %	73 %	12 km/h
July	68 mm	15	13 h/day	61 %	72 %	14 km/h
August	81 mm	16	12 h/day	58 %	71 %	14 km/h
September	74 mm	14	12 h/day	48 %	69 %	12 km/h
October	69 mm	10	12 h/day	48 %	64 %	10 km/h
November	25 mm	4	12 h/day	33 %	55 %	11 km/h
December	10 mm	2	12 h/day	28 %	50 %	12 km/h

How Harar compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Harar	26 °C	12 °C	678 mm	88
Dire Dawa · Ethiopia	32 °C	14 °C	812 mm	346
Jijiga · Ethiopia	28 °C	12 °C	367 mm	217
Borama · Somalia	31 °C	11 °C	272 mm	298
Hargeysa · Somalia	31 °C	13 °C	208 mm	300
Djibouti · Djibouti	39 °C	22 °C	228 mm	365
Nazrēt · Ethiopia	29 °C	12 °C	354 mm	315

Where Harar ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa in December	1stof 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	1stof 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in November	1stof 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in the world in December	1stof 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in the world in January	2ndof 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in Africa year-round	4thof 50	89/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Harar.

QuestionsCommon questions about Harar’s climate

When is the best time to visit Harar?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. February, March, April sit closest to 20 °C on average, March is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Harar get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 26 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 12 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Harar?

May, averaging 122 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is December with 10 mm. The year as a whole averages 678 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Harar rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.