Sodo climate

Name: Sodo
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Sodo is warmest in February, with average highs of 26 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 12 °C. August is the wettest month (244 mm) and December the driest (15 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sodo averages 1,580 mm of rain and 85 days above 25 °C.

Ethiopia · population 204,100 · 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 February 26 °C
Coldest month December 12 °C
Driest month December 15 mm
Wettest month August 244 mm
Least cloud December 38 % cloud
Hottest on record March 31 °C
Coldest on record January 7.7 °C

What to expectSodo through the year

Sodo has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in December to 26 °C in February, a swing of 4.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 85 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 244 mm against 15 mm in December — 16 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.2 °C	19 mm	44 %
February	26.2 °C	23 mm	47 %
March	25.9 °C	78 mm	56 %
April	24.2 °C	167 mm	72 %
May	22.4 °C	211 mm	74 %
June	21.0 °C	189 mm	73 %
July	20.1 °C	235 mm	78 %
August	20.5 °C	244 mm	77 %
September	21.4 °C	219 mm	69 %
October	22.3 °C	134 mm	65 %
November	23.7 °C	47 mm	47 %
December	24.5 °C	15 mm	38 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	25.2 °C	12.7 °C	18.9 °C	28.9 °C	7.7 °C	18
February	26.2 °C	13.3 °C	19.8 °C	30.6 °C	9.3 °C	21
March	25.9 °C	14.3 °C	20.0 °C	30.8 °C	8.9 °C	20
April	24.2 °C	14.2 °C	18.7 °C	29.5 °C	11.7 °C	8
May	22.4 °C	13.6 °C	17.5 °C	27.5 °C	11.1 °C	1
June	21.0 °C	12.7 °C	16.4 °C	24.5 °C	10.2 °C	0
July	20.1 °C	12.5 °C	15.9 °C	23.8 °C	10.2 °C	0
August	20.5 °C	12.6 °C	16.1 °C	23.6 °C	10.2 °C	0
September	21.4 °C	12.7 °C	16.6 °C	25.1 °C	10.7 °C	0
October	22.3 °C	12.4 °C	17.0 °C	25.7 °C	8.7 °C	0
November	23.7 °C	12.0 °C	17.7 °C	26.8 °C	7.8 °C	6
December	24.5 °C	12.0 °C	18.1 °C	27.0 °C	7.8 °C	12

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	19 mm	4	12 h/day	44 %	47 %	9.2 km/h
February	23 mm	4	12 h/day	47 %	46 %	9.1 km/h
March	78 mm	11	12 h/day	56 %	55 %	9.0 km/h
April	167 mm	21	12 h/day	72 %	73 %	8.8 km/h
May	211 mm	25	12 h/day	74 %	82 %	8.1 km/h
June	189 mm	24	13 h/day	73 %	83 %	7.5 km/h
July	235 mm	27	12 h/day	78 %	84 %	7.9 km/h
August	244 mm	26	12 h/day	77 %	83 %	7.9 km/h
September	219 mm	25	12 h/day	69 %	82 %	7.5 km/h
October	134 mm	19	12 h/day	65 %	75 %	8.7 km/h
November	47 mm	6	12 h/day	47 %	59 %	9.7 km/h
December	15 mm	3	12 h/day	38 %	49 %	9.4 km/h

How Sodo 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
Sodo	26 °C	12 °C	1,580 mm	85
Hosa’ina · Ethiopia	24 °C	9.2 °C	2,058 mm	29
Dīla · Ethiopia	28 °C	14 °C	1,930 mm	131
Awasa · Ethiopia	28 °C	13 °C	1,017 mm	139
Arba Minch · Ethiopia	30 °C	18 °C	2,467 mm	290
Shashamane · Ethiopia	25 °C	11 °C	777 mm	51
Jimma · Ethiopia	27 °C	13 °C	1,474 mm	133

Where Sodo ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa in December	4th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	6th of 50	96/100
The coolest places in Africa in September	13th of 50	21 °C
Places with the best weather in the world in December	14th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in November	16th of 50	96/100
The coolest places in Africa in August	23rd of 50	21 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Sodo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sodo?

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

How hot does Sodo get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 26 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °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 Sodo?

August, averaging 244 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is December with 15 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,580 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 Sodo 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: 6.860°, 37.762° (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.