Corrientes climate

Name: Corrientes
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Corrientes is warmest in January, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 12 °C. October is the wettest month (187 mm) and July the driest (68 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Corrientes averages 1,523 mm of rain and 219 days above 25 °C.

Argentina · population 346,334 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month January 31 °C
Coldest month July 12 °C
Driest month July 68 mm
Wettest month October 187 mm
Least cloud August 40 % cloud
Hottest on record October 40 °C
Coldest on record July 0.4 °C

What to expectCorrientes through the year

Corrientes has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 20 °C in July to 31 °C in January, a swing of 12 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 219 days a year reach 25 °C, 95 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 187 mm against 68 mm in July — 2.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.4 °C	142 mm	47 %
February	30.4 °C	133 mm	46 %
March	29.0 °C	132 mm	44 %
April	25.8 °C	168 mm	47 %
May	22.0 °C	112 mm	52 %
June	20.1 °C	77 mm	54 %
July	19.7 °C	68 mm	46 %
August	22.3 °C	70 mm	40 %
September	24.3 °C	113 mm	43 %
October	26.6 °C	187 mm	51 %
November	28.4 °C	170 mm	44 %
December	30.5 °C	151 mm	47 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.4 °C	23.1 °C	27.1 °C	37.9 °C	15.4 °C	31	22
February	30.4 °C	22.6 °C	26.2 °C	37.2 °C	12.5 °C	27	16
March	29.0 °C	21.0 °C	24.7 °C	38.2 °C	11.3 °C	27	11
April	25.8 °C	18.3 °C	21.6 °C	34.3 °C	7.2 °C	17	4
May	22.0 °C	15.0 °C	18.1 °C	32.4 °C	3.3 °C	8	0
June	20.1 °C	13.1 °C	16.2 °C	30.2 °C	1.9 °C	5	0
July	19.7 °C	11.7 °C	15.1 °C	30.5 °C	0.4 °C	6	0
August	22.3 °C	12.9 °C	17.0 °C	34.4 °C	0.9 °C	11	3
September	24.3 °C	14.7 °C	19.0 °C	39.8 °C	4.3 °C	13	4
October	26.6 °C	17.8 °C	21.8 °C	40.4 °C	7.3 °C	20	7
November	28.4 °C	19.3 °C	23.6 °C	39.7 °C	8.4 °C	25	9
December	30.5 °C	21.8 °C	26.0 °C	39.2 °C	11.6 °C	30	18

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	142 mm	10	14 h/day	47 %	71 %	17 km/h
February	133 mm	10	13 h/day	46 %	73 %	16 km/h
March	132 mm	10	12 h/day	44 %	75 %	16 km/h
April	168 mm	10	11 h/day	47 %	78 %	17 km/h
May	112 mm	8	11 h/day	52 %	80 %	17 km/h
June	77 mm	8	10 h/day	54 %	81 %	18 km/h
July	68 mm	7	11 h/day	46 %	77 %	18 km/h
August	70 mm	6	11 h/day	40 %	72 %	20 km/h
September	113 mm	8	12 h/day	43 %	71 %	20 km/h
October	187 mm	11	13 h/day	51 %	74 %	20 km/h
November	170 mm	9	13 h/day	44 %	71 %	19 km/h
December	151 mm	10	14 h/day	47 %	71 %	18 km/h

How Corrientes compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Corrientes	31 °C	12 °C	1,523 mm	219
Resistencia · Argentina	32 °C	12 °C	1,470 mm	221
Formosa · Argentina	32 °C	13 °C	1,569 mm	248
Ituzaingó · Argentina	31 °C	12 °C	1,684 mm	221
Asunción · Paraguay	32 °C	14 °C	1,577 mm	259
San Lorenzo · Paraguay	32 °C	14 °C	1,599 mm	259
Posadas · Argentina	31 °C	12 °C	1,721 mm	222

Where Corrientes ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in January	24th of 50	31 °C
Places with the best weather in South America in September	37th of 50	88/100
The warmest places in South America in December	38th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in February	49th of 50	30 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Corrientes.

QuestionsCommon questions about Corrientes’s climate

When is the best time to visit Corrientes?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. April, September, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, January is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Corrientes get?

In January, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 95 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 12 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Corrientes?

October, averaging 187 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is July with 68 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,523 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Corrientes rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: -27.468°, -58.834° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.