Bucaramanga climate

Name: Bucaramanga
Address: CO

Bucaramanga is warmest in March, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. June is the wettest month (1,017 mm) and January the driest (360 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bucaramanga averages 8,974 mm of rain and 105 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 581,130 · 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 March 25 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month January 360 mm
Wettest month June 1,017 mm
Least cloud January 71 % cloud
Hottest on record January 29 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectBucaramanga through the year

Bucaramanga changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 25 and 25 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 105 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 29 °C, in January.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 1,017 mm against 360 mm in January — 2.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.5 °C	360 mm	71 %
February	24.8 °C	400 mm	74 %
March	24.9 °C	527 mm	84 %
April	24.6 °C	699 mm	93 %
May	24.4 °C	925 mm	96 %
June	24.2 °C	1,017 mm	95 %
July	24.2 °C	942 mm	94 %
August	24.5 °C	762 mm	93 %
September	24.6 °C	821 mm	94 %
October	24.3 °C	861 mm	94 %
November	24.0 °C	945 mm	91 %
December	24.2 °C	715 mm	80 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	24.5 °C	17.7 °C	20.9 °C	28.6 °C	12.4 °C	10
February	24.8 °C	18.1 °C	21.2 °C	28.5 °C	13.1 °C	13
March	24.9 °C	18.5 °C	21.5 °C	28.2 °C	14.5 °C	14
April	24.6 °C	18.9 °C	21.5 °C	28.3 °C	14.7 °C	11
May	24.4 °C	19.0 °C	21.5 °C	27.2 °C	15.1 °C	8
June	24.2 °C	18.8 °C	21.3 °C	27.1 °C	15.3 °C	6
July	24.2 °C	18.4 °C	21.1 °C	27.8 °C	14.8 °C	6
August	24.5 °C	18.5 °C	21.3 °C	27.0 °C	15.4 °C	9
September	24.6 °C	18.5 °C	21.3 °C	27.2 °C	15.4 °C	10
October	24.3 °C	18.4 °C	21.1 °C	27.0 °C	15.1 °C	7
November	24.0 °C	18.5 °C	20.9 °C	26.6 °C	13.9 °C	5
December	24.2 °C	17.9 °C	20.8 °C	27.8 °C	13.3 °C	7

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	360 mm	29	12 h/day	71 %	86 %	6.5 km/h
February	400 mm	26	12 h/day	74 %	86 %	6.5 km/h
March	527 mm	30	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	6.6 km/h
April	699 mm	30	12 h/day	93 %	88 %	6.4 km/h
May	925 mm	31	12 h/day	96 %	89 %	6.1 km/h
June	1,017 mm	30	13 h/day	95 %	89 %	5.9 km/h
July	942 mm	31	13 h/day	94 %	88 %	6.0 km/h
August	762 mm	30	12 h/day	93 %	87 %	6.1 km/h
September	821 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	87 %	6.4 km/h
October	861 mm	31	12 h/day	94 %	88 %	6.5 km/h
November	945 mm	30	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	6.5 km/h
December	715 mm	30	12 h/day	80 %	88 %	6.5 km/h

How Bucaramanga 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
Bucaramanga	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
Barrancabermeja · Colombia	31 °C	23 °C	3,870 mm	364
Cúcuta · Colombia	32 °C	20 °C	1,177 mm	355
San Cristóbal · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	1,031 mm	298
Tunja · Colombia	18 °C	7.8 °C	1,785 mm	0

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bucaramanga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bucaramanga?

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

How hot does Bucaramanga get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 29 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bucaramanga?

June, averaging 1,017 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is January with 360 mm. The year as a whole averages 8,974 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 Bucaramanga 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: 7.125°, -73.119° (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.