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Weather extremes

How extreme does Bahir Dar's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Bahir Dar has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Bahir Dar Ginbot Haya Intl station 8 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Bahir Dar has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
113°F Jun 28, 2021

That is about 34°F hotter than a normal June afternoon in Bahir Dar (typical high near 79°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 113°F Jun 28, 2021recent
2 104°F Apr 7, 1994
3 95°F Jun 15, 1999
❄️ Coldest night
33°F Dec 21, 2007

The three most extreme on record

1 33°F Dec 21, 2007
2 37°F Jan 27, 1991
3 37°F Jan 27, 2007
🌧️ Most rain in one day
5.20 in Sep 10, 1994

The three most extreme on record

1 5.20 in Sep 10, 1994
2 4.92 in Sep 9, 2020
3 4.61 in Jul 23, 2022

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 113°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Bahir Dar's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — June's 113°F is about 34°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Bahir Dar's warmest days reach the mid-80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 40s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 113°F and as low as 33°F. A single day has delivered over 5 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →