Awasa
City in Ethiopia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Awasa fish market: MauritsV, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Awasa is a city in Ethiopia, in Sidama Region. About 422,200 people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of Ethiopia in our atlas.
It lies at 7.06° N, 38.48° E, about 1,697 m (5,568 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Addis_Ababa time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Awasa. Green dots: other major cities of Ethiopia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Awasa has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 25°C (78°F); the coolest nights come in Dec at about 8°C (46°F). Around 1,432 mm (56 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Apr.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in EthiopiaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Shashamane · 20 km
- Sodo · 82 km
- Arba Minch · 153 km
- Nazrēt · 187 km
- Jimma · 193 km
- Bishoftu · 196 km
- Addis Ababa · 220 km
- Dire Dawa · 467 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 343137 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q755765 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Awasa fish market: MauritsV, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sunset over Lake Awassa, Ethiopia: Original uploader was Sfkdn at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
