Jijiga climate

Name: Jijiga
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Jijiga is warmest in March, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 12 °C. May is the wettest month (76 mm) and January the driest (5.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jijiga averages 367 mm of rain and 217 days above 25 °C.

Ethiopia · population 483,000 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month December 12 °C
Driest month January 5 mm
Wettest month May 76 mm
Least cloud December 26 % cloud
Hottest on record March 32 °C
Coldest on record January 5.7 °C

What to expectJijiga through the year

Jijiga has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in December to 28 °C in March, a swing of 3.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 217 days a year reach 25 °C, 6 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 76 mm against 5 mm in January — 14 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.9 °C	5 mm	29 %
February	27.4 °C	7 mm	31 %
March	27.6 °C	26 mm	40 %
April	26.3 °C	72 mm	57 %
May	25.5 °C	76 mm	62 %
June	24.5 °C	24 mm	59 %
July	23.9 °C	28 mm	62 %
August	24.3 °C	30 mm	57 %
September	25.0 °C	32 mm	45 %
October	25.5 °C	46 mm	46 %
November	25.4 °C	14 mm	31 %
December	25.2 °C	7 mm	26 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.9 °C	12.1 °C	18.5 °C	30.0 °C	5.7 °C	23	0
February	27.4 °C	13.4 °C	20.0 °C	31.5 °C	5.9 °C	25	1
March	27.6 °C	15.3 °C	21.2 °C	32.4 °C	6.4 °C	26	4
April	26.3 °C	16.0 °C	20.8 °C	31.5 °C	12.5 °C	20	1
May	25.5 °C	16.0 °C	20.2 °C	30.7 °C	11.5 °C	17	0
June	24.5 °C	15.7 °C	19.5 °C	29.7 °C	13.7 °C	12	0
July	23.9 °C	15.2 °C	18.9 °C	28.9 °C	13.1 °C	10	0
August	24.3 °C	15.4 °C	19.3 °C	28.6 °C	12.5 °C	12	0
September	25.0 °C	15.7 °C	20.1 °C	30.1 °C	11.2 °C	15	0
October	25.5 °C	14.1 °C	19.5 °C	30.2 °C	9.0 °C	18	0
November	25.4 °C	12.6 °C	18.6 °C	28.8 °C	7.0 °C	19	0
December	25.2 °C	11.6 °C	17.9 °C	28.5 °C	6.0 °C	18	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	12 h/day	29 %	52 %	14 km/h
February	7 mm	1	12 h/day	31 %	49 %	14 km/h
March	26 mm	4	12 h/day	40 %	52 %	14 km/h
April	72 mm	12	12 h/day	57 %	67 %	13 km/h
May	76 mm	15	13 h/day	62 %	76 %	14 km/h
June	24 mm	5	13 h/day	59 %	71 %	20 km/h
July	28 mm	7	13 h/day	62 %	69 %	22 km/h
August	30 mm	8	12 h/day	57 %	67 %	22 km/h
September	32 mm	7	12 h/day	45 %	65 %	18 km/h
October	46 mm	8	12 h/day	46 %	63 %	13 km/h
November	14 mm	2	12 h/day	31 %	56 %	13 km/h
December	7 mm	1	12 h/day	26 %	53 %	14 km/h

How Jijiga 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
Jijiga	28 °C	12 °C	367 mm	217
Harar · Ethiopia	26 °C	12 °C	678 mm	88
Borama · Somalia	31 °C	11 °C	272 mm	298
Dire Dawa · Ethiopia	32 °C	14 °C	812 mm	346
Hargeysa · Somalia	31 °C	13 °C	208 mm	300
Djibouti · Djibouti	39 °C	22 °C	228 mm	365
Berbera · Somalia	39 °C	21 °C	112 mm	365

Where Jijiga ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa year-round	2nd of 50	89/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	17th of 50	93/100
Places with the best weather in the world year-round	17th of 50	89/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in December	25th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in November	28th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in September	36th of 50	90/100

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QuestionsCommon questions about Jijiga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jijiga?

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

How hot does Jijiga get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 6 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °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 Jijiga?

May, averaging 76 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is January with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 367 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 Jijiga 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
Data point: 9.350°, 42.800° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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.