Cali climate

Name: Cali
Address: CO

Cali is warmest in August, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 17 °C. November is the wettest month (466 mm) and July the driest (130 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cali averages 3,225 mm of rain and 146 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 2,392,877 · 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 August 25 °C
Coldest month July 17 °C
Driest month July 130 mm
Wettest month November 466 mm
Least cloud January 82 % cloud
Hottest on record September 31 °C
Coldest on record January 13 °C

What to expectCali through the year

Cali 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, 146 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 466 mm against 130 mm in July — 3.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.3 °C	291 mm	82 %
February	24.7 °C	241 mm	84 %
March	24.8 °C	292 mm	89 %
April	24.7 °C	309 mm	92 %
May	24.7 °C	223 mm	93 %
June	25.0 °C	143 mm	92 %
July	25.1 °C	130 mm	90 %
August	25.4 °C	150 mm	89 %
September	24.9 °C	219 mm	91 %
October	24.2 °C	391 mm	93 %
November	23.7 °C	466 mm	92 %
December	24.0 °C	370 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	24.3 °C	17.7 °C	20.8 °C	30.2 °C	12.6 °C	10
February	24.7 °C	18.0 °C	21.0 °C	30.1 °C	13.0 °C	12
March	24.8 °C	18.3 °C	21.2 °C	28.4 °C	14.0 °C	13
April	24.7 °C	18.6 °C	21.3 °C	28.7 °C	15.0 °C	13
May	24.7 °C	18.3 °C	21.3 °C	28.7 °C	13.2 °C	13
June	25.0 °C	17.7 °C	21.2 °C	28.9 °C	14.1 °C	14
July	25.1 °C	17.1 °C	21.0 °C	30.1 °C	13.1 °C	16
August	25.4 °C	17.1 °C	21.1 °C	29.9 °C	13.3 °C	19
September	24.9 °C	17.5 °C	21.0 °C	30.9 °C	13.2 °C	14
October	24.2 °C	18.0 °C	20.7 °C	28.9 °C	12.8 °C	9
November	23.7 °C	18.1 °C	20.5 °C	28.0 °C	13.7 °C	5
December	24.0 °C	17.9 °C	20.7 °C	28.4 °C	13.9 °C	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	291 mm	24	12 h/day	82 %	84 %	6.8 km/h
February	241 mm	22	12 h/day	84 %	83 %	6.9 km/h
March	292 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	83 %	7.0 km/h
April	309 mm	23	12 h/day	92 %	83 %	6.8 km/h
May	223 mm	20	12 h/day	93 %	83 %	7.0 km/h
June	143 mm	15	12 h/day	92 %	82 %	7.3 km/h
July	130 mm	14	12 h/day	90 %	81 %	7.5 km/h
August	150 mm	15	12 h/day	89 %	80 %	7.7 km/h
September	219 mm	20	12 h/day	91 %	82 %	7.6 km/h
October	391 mm	25	12 h/day	93 %	84 %	7.1 km/h
November	466 mm	27	12 h/day	92 %	85 %	6.6 km/h
December	370 mm	25	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	6.7 km/h

How Cali 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
Cali	25 °C	17 °C	3,225 mm	146
Palmira · Colombia	23 °C	16 °C	7,494 mm	10
Buenaventura · Colombia	27 °C	22 °C	27,443 mm	266
Buenaventura · Colombia	27 °C	22 °C	10,797 mm	279
Tuluá · Colombia	24 °C	16 °C	10,796 mm	64
Popayán · Colombia	22 °C	13 °C	6,366 mm	2
Neiva · Colombia	32 °C	21 °C	1,279 mm	354

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cali’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cali?

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, August is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Cali get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Cali?

November, averaging 466 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is July with 130 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,225 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 Cali 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: 3.431°, -76.520° (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.