Shire Inda Selassie weather by month & the best time to visit
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · highland city · semi-arid climate
The best time to visit Shire Inda Selassie is January — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 99/100), with February and December close behind. Shire Inda Selassie averages about 3,416 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 26°C / 79°F and roughly 1 mm of rain in January.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,416
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 99/100
- Rain / year
- 651 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 13 (extreme)
- Population
- 100k
- Elevation
- 1,890 m
When is the best time to visit Shire Inda Selassie?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Shire Inda Selassie is January, then February and December. The dullest month is July (72/100, 183 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Shire Inda Selassie?
Shire Inda Selassie is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,416 hours of sunshine a year. January (99/100) is noticeably better than July (72). It ranks #5 of 22 destinations in Ethiopia for annual sunshine, above the national median of 3,219 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 75% of the year's 651 mm falls in the three months around August.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 99 | 26° / 79°F | 13° / 55°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| February | 99 | 28° / 82°F | 15° / 59°F | 3 mm | 11 |
| March | 98 | 30° / 86°F | 17° / 63°F | 9 mm | 12 |
| April | 95 | 31° / 88°F | 19° / 66°F | 22 mm | 13 |
| May | 92 | 30° / 86°F | 20° / 68°F | 43 mm | 12 |
| June | 90 | 27° / 81°F | 18° / 64°F | 51 mm | 11 |
| July | 72 | 23° / 73°F | 16° / 61°F | 183 mm | 10 |
| August | 72 | 21° / 70°F | 15° / 59°F | 226 mm | 10 |
| September | 85 | 24° / 75°F | 16° / 61°F | 80 mm | 11 |
| October | 95 | 26° / 79°F | 16° / 61°F | 24 mm | 11 |
| November | 98 | 26° / 79°F | 14° / 57°F | 6 mm | 10 |
| December | 99 | 26° / 79°F | 13° / 55°F | 3 mm | 9 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Jizan Saudi Arabia · 559 km · best in Feb · 3,288 h sun/yr
- Addis Ababa Ethiopia · 570 km · best in Jan · 3,090 h sun/yr
- Djibouti Djibouti · 600 km · best in Jan · 3,064 h sun/yr
- Port Sudan Sudan · 606 km · best in Feb · 2,938 h sun/yr
- Khartoum Sudan · 637 km · best in Jan · 3,820 h sun/yr
- Abha Saudi Arabia · 658 km · best in Jun · 3,555 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Axum Ethiopia · 54 km · 3,416 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Asmara Eritrea · 152 km · 3,420 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Mekele Ethiopia · 152 km · 3,309 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Gondar Ethiopia · 195 km · 3,297 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Kassala Sudan · 255 km · 3,681 h sun/yr · best in Jan
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