Djibouti
When to go?
Mean 24 °C, 2 rain days in the month (11 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 25 °C, 1 rain day in the month (6 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 27 °C, 2 rain days in the month (14 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 3 rain days in the month (25 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 34 °C
Mean 30 °C, 2 rain days in the month (19 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 36 °C
Mean 33 °C, 1 rain day in the month (4 mm).
Against
- Extreme heathighs of 39 °C
Mean 33 °C, 3 rain days in the month (28 mm).
Against
- Extreme heathighs of 39 °C
Mean 32 °C, 6 rain days in the month (56 mm).
Against
- Extreme heatnights at 27 °C
Mean 32 °C, 3 rain days in the month (21 mm).
Against
- Extreme heatnights at 27 °C
Mean 28 °C, 2 rain days in the month (15 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 34 °C
Mean 26 °C, 2 rain days in the month (9 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 24 °C, 1 rain day in the month (8 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
The best months are December–January.
Very varied climate The climate changes a lot from one part to another: look at the cities below for the details.
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.