Due to the Ogo Mountains' elevated, highland location in Somaliland, the range has an unexpectedly temperate climate.

[3] The mountains also catch the precipitation of the Indian Ocean's monsoon winds, resulting in a rainy season that lasts from June until mid-September.

[citation needed] The average annual temperature in the Ogo Mountains is 20 to 26 °C (68 to 79 °F).

It illustrates a subtropical highland climate with strong continental Mediterranean characteristics (Köppen: "Cwb"), given the two marked wet seasons that span between March–May and September–November, albeit the latter being briefer and more subtle.

The climatic situation here is most similar to the Altiplano region, due to its semi-arid patterns of rain, huge diurnal temperature variations, adjacence to the Somali desert, and seasonal variations that are neither too cold nor too hot in the extremes.