Barrancabermeja climate

Name: Barrancabermeja
Address: CO

Barrancabermeja is warmest in February, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in November, when nights average 23 °C. October is the wettest month (420 mm) and January the driest (125 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Barrancabermeja averages 3,870 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 191,403 · 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 February 31 °C
Coldest month November 23 °C
Driest month January 125 mm
Wettest month October 420 mm
Least cloud January 62 % cloud
Hottest on record February 38 °C
Coldest on record December 21 °C

What to expectBarrancabermeja through the year

Barrancabermeja changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 158 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 420 mm against 125 mm in January — 3.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.8 °C	125 mm	62 %
February	30.8 °C	143 mm	66 %
March	30.7 °C	275 mm	79 %
April	30.0 °C	379 mm	91 %
May	29.8 °C	414 mm	94 %
June	29.9 °C	362 mm	93 %
July	30.1 °C	321 mm	92 %
August	30.3 °C	348 mm	92 %
September	29.7 °C	410 mm	92 %
October	29.2 °C	420 mm	92 %
November	28.7 °C	414 mm	88 %
December	29.0 °C	258 mm	74 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.8 °C	23.2 °C	26.1 °C	35.5 °C	20.9 °C	31	12
February	30.8 °C	23.6 °C	26.7 °C	37.8 °C	20.9 °C	28	17
March	30.7 °C	23.6 °C	26.6 °C	37.7 °C	21.4 °C	31	19
April	30.0 °C	23.5 °C	26.2 °C	35.8 °C	21.5 °C	30	16
May	29.8 °C	23.6 °C	26.2 °C	35.3 °C	21.4 °C	31	14
June	29.9 °C	23.6 °C	26.3 °C	33.6 °C	21.5 °C	30	15
July	30.1 °C	23.5 °C	26.4 °C	35.5 °C	21.6 °C	31	16
August	30.3 °C	23.5 °C	26.4 °C	35.2 °C	21.8 °C	31	17
September	29.7 °C	23.2 °C	26.0 °C	34.0 °C	21.5 °C	30	13
October	29.2 °C	23.0 °C	25.5 °C	33.1 °C	21.1 °C	31	9
November	28.7 °C	22.8 °C	25.2 °C	32.5 °C	20.8 °C	30	4
December	29.0 °C	23.0 °C	25.5 °C	34.3 °C	20.7 °C	31	7

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	125 mm	17	12 h/day	62 %	85 %	6.0 km/h
February	143 mm	16	12 h/day	66 %	82 %	6.6 km/h
March	275 mm	23	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	6.5 km/h
April	379 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	88 %	6.2 km/h
May	414 mm	28	12 h/day	94 %	88 %	6.1 km/h
June	362 mm	26	13 h/day	93 %	87 %	6.3 km/h
July	321 mm	25	12 h/day	92 %	85 %	6.5 km/h
August	348 mm	25	12 h/day	92 %	85 %	6.8 km/h
September	410 mm	27	12 h/day	92 %	87 %	6.7 km/h
October	420 mm	29	12 h/day	92 %	89 %	6.4 km/h
November	414 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	5.9 km/h
December	258 mm	24	12 h/day	74 %	89 %	5.8 km/h

How Barrancabermeja 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
Barrancabermeja	31 °C	23 °C	3,870 mm	364
Bucaramanga · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	8,974 mm	105
Floridablanca · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	5,162 mm	178
Piedecuesta · Colombia	25 °C	17 °C	4,988 mm	170
Cúcuta · Colombia	32 °C	20 °C	1,177 mm	355
Tunja · Colombia	18 °C	7.8 °C	1,785 mm	0
San Cristóbal · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	1,031 mm	298

Where Barrancabermeja ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in March	38th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in February	39th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in July	48th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in South America in June	49th of 50	30 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Barrancabermeja’s climate

When is the best time to visit Barrancabermeja?

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

How hot does Barrancabermeja get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 158 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in November, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Barrancabermeja?

October, averaging 420 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is January with 125 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,870 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 Barrancabermeja 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: 7.065°, -73.855° (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.