Best value: Oct — fares from €209 and ~24°C daytime.
Flights from Addis Ababa to Axum start around €209 (direct flights available). Range seen recently: €209–210, based on 2 fares found by travellers.
In May, Axum typically sees ~28°C daytime highs and 6 rainy days.
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Axum (አክሱም, also spelt Aksum) is a city of 56,000 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, just south of Eritrea, with which it shares the language of Tigrinya. It was for nearly 800 years the administrative centre of one of the great empires of the old world along with those of Rome, Persia and China and remains the ecclesiastical capital of the Ethiopian church.
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