No readings held for this station
This station has not reported a qualifying observation since Thu 1 Jan 1970. A separate archive of daily values from 1943 is linked under data sources.
44 Octobers on record
Average high · NOAA GHCN-DailyAcross 44 Octobers, 1943 to 1987, this station's October average has fallen about 0.2° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding.
Warmest October here: 1958, averaging 23.2°C. Coldest: 1964, averaging 20.5°C.
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened- 1
Asmara has dropped below freezing on 20 nights since 1943. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1943. - 2
The coldest night Asmara has ever recorded, −4.5°C, would pass for a warm spell at Vostok, which is −62.3°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Vostok.
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- Date
- Sunday, 8 April 1945
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Asmara, Eritrea
- Position
- 15.28°N 38.92°E · 2325 m
The highest in available records since 1943. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1943 to 2012.
- Date
- Friday, 6 January 1989
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Asmara, Eritrea
- Position
- 15.28°N 38.92°E · 2325 m
The lowest in available records since 1943. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1943 to 2012.
Asmara (WMO 63021) is a weather station in Eritrea, 2,325 m above sea level.
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationGondar18.4°C343.9 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyGizan36.1°C431.1 km away
- Coldest nearbyBahar Dar19.0°C439.3 km away, today's low
- The opposite of hereVostok−62.3°CAntarctica
The nearest other station is 206.6 km away. Quality control compares a reading against stations within 150 km, so there is nothing close enough to cross-check this one against.
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,700 km north of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Asmara is
Land surface temperature for 2026-10-05, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
View more on Google Maps15.2833°N, 38.9167°E
Asmara, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Asmara?
The warmest month on record here is April, when the highest reading has reached 31.0°C (87.8°F) on Sunday, 8 April 1945.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Asmara?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to −4.5°C (23.9°F) on Friday, 6 January 1989.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Asmara?
31.0°C (87.8°F) on Sunday, 8 April 1945. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1943. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Asmara?
−4.5°C (23.9°F) on Friday, 6 January 1989. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1943.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
Is Asmara getting hotter?
Comparing the ten most recent years in our record (1977 to 1987) with the ten earliest (1944 to 1953), the average daily high is 0.5°C cooler. That is a comparison of two periods in this station's own record, not a climate attribution.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, 43 years with a usable average
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| All-time, monthly and on-this-day records | NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1943 to 2012 at this site and its predecessors | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused in the 11 days since readings began being logged against individual stations.
- 01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
- 02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
- 03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
- 04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
- 05
Inside the range of measured temperature