Manizales climate

Name: Manizales
Address: CO

Manizales is warmest in August, with average highs of 21 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 9.6 °C. July is the wettest month (1,718 mm) and January the driest (675 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Manizales averages 14,397 mm of rain and 5 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 434,403 · 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 August 21 °C
Coldest month August 9.6 °C
Driest month January 675 mm
Wettest month July 1,718 mm
Least cloud January 84 % cloud
Hottest on record April 30 °C
Coldest on record February 6.2 °C

What to expectManizales through the year

Manizales changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 21 and 21 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 5 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 1,718 mm against 675 mm in January — 2.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	19.7 °C	675 mm	84 %
February	20.3 °C	824 mm	86 %
March	20.5 °C	1,116 mm	91 %
April	20.3 °C	1,269 mm	96 %
May	20.0 °C	1,407 mm	97 %
June	20.3 °C	1,630 mm	97 %
July	20.3 °C	1,718 mm	95 %
August	20.7 °C	1,662 mm	94 %
September	20.6 °C	1,393 mm	95 %
October	19.6 °C	1,053 mm	95 %
November	19.2 °C	849 mm	94 %
December	19.5 °C	802 mm	89 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	19.7 °C	10.0 °C	14.4 °C	25.3 °C	6.5 °C	0
February	20.3 °C	10.3 °C	14.7 °C	26.0 °C	6.2 °C	0
March	20.5 °C	10.7 °C	14.9 °C	28.1 °C	6.8 °C	0
April	20.3 °C	10.9 °C	14.8 °C	29.7 °C	7.3 °C	1
May	20.0 °C	10.9 °C	14.7 °C	27.3 °C	7.6 °C	1
June	20.3 °C	10.2 °C	14.4 °C	28.8 °C	7.0 °C	1
July	20.3 °C	9.7 °C	14.1 °C	27.6 °C	7.4 °C	1
August	20.7 °C	9.6 °C	14.3 °C	27.7 °C	7.5 °C	1
September	20.6 °C	9.9 °C	14.3 °C	28.5 °C	7.3 °C	1
October	19.6 °C	10.6 °C	14.4 °C	27.4 °C	7.3 °C	0
November	19.2 °C	10.9 °C	14.4 °C	27.5 °C	7.2 °C	0
December	19.5 °C	10.5 °C	14.4 °C	26.4 °C	6.6 °C	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	675 mm	30	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	6.6 km/h
February	824 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	6.7 km/h
March	1,116 mm	30	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	6.9 km/h
April	1,269 mm	30	12 h/day	96 %	91 %	6.9 km/h
May	1,407 mm	31	12 h/day	97 %	92 %	6.9 km/h
June	1,630 mm	30	12 h/day	97 %	92 %	7.0 km/h
July	1,718 mm	31	12 h/day	95 %	91 %	7.2 km/h
August	1,662 mm	31	12 h/day	94 %	90 %	7.3 km/h
September	1,393 mm	30	12 h/day	95 %	90 %	7.2 km/h
October	1,053 mm	30	12 h/day	95 %	90 %	6.9 km/h
November	849 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	90 %	6.6 km/h
December	802 mm	30	12 h/day	89 %	89 %	6.5 km/h

How Manizales 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
Manizales	21 °C	9.6 °C	14,397 mm	5
Pereira · Colombia	22 °C	14 °C	12,420 mm	18
Armenia · Colombia	23 °C	14 °C	5,718 mm	15
Ibagué · Colombia	26 °C	17 °C	1,431 mm	147

Where Manizales ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in South America in November	21st of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in December	23rd of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in March	23rd of 50	20 °C
The coolest places in South America in February	26th of 50	20 °C
The coolest places in South America in October	28th of 50	20 °C
The coolest places in South America year-round	28th of 50	20 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Manizales’s climate

When is the best time to visit Manizales?

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

How hot does Manizales get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 21 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 9.6 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Manizales?

July, averaging 1,718 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is January with 675 mm. The year as a whole averages 14,397 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 Manizales 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: 5.067°, -75.507° (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.