Compare Afar and Dire Dawa Weather

Afar is 257.6 kilometers (160.1 miles) away and has the same time zone with Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Both Afar and Dire Dawa are in the same climate zone with Subtropical steppe (Köppen climate classification: BSh).

Afar generally has cooler weather than Dire Dawa. The average mean temperature in Afar is 19.16°C (66.49°F) while Dire Dawa’s temperature is 23.5°C (74.3°F) and the difference is 4.34°C (39.81°F). Afar is warmest on average in June, when the day time temperature may reach 22.82°C (73.08°F), while Dire Dawa is hottest in June when the average high temperature is 25.41°C (77.74°F). Afar is coldest in December when the average low temperature is 9.2°C (48.56°F), while December is the coolest month in Dire Dawa, when night time temperature often falls below 13.61°C (56.5°F).

Finally, Afar has about 1.15 times less rainfall than Dire Dawa, (Afar’s 66.43mm vs Dire Dawa’s average of 76.13mm).