Nazrēt climate

Name: Nazrēt
Address: ET

Nazrēt is warmest in May, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 12 °C. August is the wettest month (83 mm) and December the driest (1.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nazrēt averages 354 mm of rain and 315 days above 25 °C.

Ethiopia · population 456,900 · 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 May 29 °C
Coldest month December 12 °C
Driest month December 2 mm
Wettest month August 83 mm
Least cloud December 27 % cloud
Hottest on record February 34 °C
Coldest on record January 5.3 °C

What to expectNazrēt through the year

Nazrēt has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in December to 29 °C in May, a swing of 4.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 315 days a year reach 25 °C, 39 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 83 mm against 2 mm in December — 43 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.3 °C	4 mm	33 %
February	27.8 °C	6 mm	35 %
March	28.8 °C	25 mm	42 %
April	29.0 °C	34 mm	53 %
May	29.2 °C	35 mm	51 %
June	28.5 °C	21 mm	47 %
July	26.5 °C	57 mm	56 %
August	25.9 °C	83 mm	56 %
September	26.5 °C	64 mm	46 %
October	26.8 °C	16 mm	40 %
November	26.1 °C	7 mm	30 %
December	25.6 °C	2 mm	27 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.3 °C	12.9 °C	19.3 °C	31.5 °C	5.3 °C	24	0
February	27.8 °C	14.1 °C	20.8 °C	33.8 °C	8.2 °C	26	3
March	28.8 °C	15.9 °C	22.1 °C	33.7 °C	7.2 °C	29	9
April	29.0 °C	16.9 °C	22.6 °C	32.8 °C	11.2 °C	29	9
May	29.2 °C	16.7 °C	22.8 °C	32.9 °C	11.2 °C	30	12
June	28.5 °C	16.4 °C	22.1 °C	32.8 °C	13.7 °C	29	5
July	26.5 °C	16.1 °C	20.7 °C	31.1 °C	13.1 °C	25	0
August	25.9 °C	15.8 °C	20.2 °C	29.1 °C	12.9 °C	24	0
September	26.5 °C	15.3 °C	20.6 °C	30.3 °C	8.7 °C	25	0
October	26.8 °C	15.1 °C	20.9 °C	30.5 °C	9.3 °C	28	0
November	26.1 °C	13.7 °C	19.7 °C	29.9 °C	7.4 °C	24	0
December	25.6 °C	12.3 °C	18.7 °C	29.1 °C	7.5 °C	21	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	4 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	51 %	18 km/h
February	6 mm	1	12 h/day	35 %	46 %	19 km/h
March	25 mm	4	12 h/day	42 %	48 %	18 km/h
April	34 mm	6	12 h/day	53 %	53 %	19 km/h
May	35 mm	6	13 h/day	51 %	52 %	19 km/h
June	21 mm	5	13 h/day	47 %	57 %	18 km/h
July	57 mm	14	13 h/day	56 %	67 %	18 km/h
August	83 mm	18	12 h/day	56 %	70 %	17 km/h
September	64 mm	14	12 h/day	46 %	65 %	14 km/h
October	16 mm	3	12 h/day	40 %	48 %	20 km/h
November	7 mm	1	12 h/day	30 %	46 %	20 km/h
December	2 mm	0	12 h/day	27 %	49 %	19 km/h

How Nazrēt 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
Nazrēt	29 °C	12 °C	354 mm	315
Bishoftu · Ethiopia	26 °C	9.1 °C	808 mm	105
Addis Ababa · Ethiopia	24 °C	8.2 °C	1,741 mm	21
Shashamane · Ethiopia	25 °C	11 °C	777 mm	51

Where Nazrēt ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	30th of 50	91/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in December	42nd of 50	92/100
Places with the best weather in Africa year-round	47th of 50	84/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Nazrēt’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nazrēt?

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

How hot does Nazrēt get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 39 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °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 Nazrēt?

August, averaging 83 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is December with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 354 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 Nazrēt 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: 8.550°, 39.267° (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.