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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Gode
Gode climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jul–Aug · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing3°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation221 mm47 wet days a year
5.95° N, 43.55° EElevation 292 mUTC+3 · East Africa Time
When to goGode · weather score
Best timeJul–Aug · Dec
October: high / low32° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Gode has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 36° and nights 25°. October is the coolest month, with highs of 32° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 221 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. April is the wettest month (60 mm, 13 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in December to 40% in July.
Compared with Addis Ababa, the capital, Gode is 13.3° warmer on a March afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 36° · March
- Coldest nights
- 23° · January
- Wettest month
- April
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 28 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 47 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 35° | 36° | 36° | 33° | 33° | 33° | 33° | 33° | 34° | 32° | 32° | 34° |
| Average low | 23° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 1 mm | 17 mm | 60 mm | 50 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 4 mm | 53 mm | 29 mm | 4 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 13.3 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 11.5 | 7.3 | 0.8 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 15% | 27% | 26% | 34% | 40% | 35% | 19% | 24% | 15% | 11% |
| Daylight | 11h 49 | 11h 56 | 12h 05 | 12h 15 | 12h 23 | 12h 28 | 12h 26 | 12h 19 | 12h 09 | 12h 00 | 11h 51 | 11h 47 |
| Month score | 59 | 58 | 52 | 35 | 50 | 60 | 64 | 62 | 57 | 43 | 53 | 61 |
ivMonth by month
Gode in every month
January59
35° / 23°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
February58
36° / 24°
1 mm · 0.2 wet days
March52
36° / 25°
17 mm · 2.4 wet days
April35
33° / 25°
60 mm · 13.3 wet days
May50
33° / 25°
50 mm · 7.3 wet days
June60
33° / 25°
1 mm · 1.3 wet day
July64
33° / 24°
1 mm · 0.2 wet days
August62
33° / 24°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
September57
34° / 24°
4 mm · 1.6 wet days
October43
32° / 24°
53 mm · 11.5 wet days
November53
32° / 23°
29 mm · 7.3 wet days
December61
34° / 23°
4 mm · 0.8 wet day