Piedecuesta climate

Name: Piedecuesta
Address: CO

Piedecuesta is warmest in February, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 17 °C. November is the wettest month (631 mm) and January the driest (232 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Piedecuesta averages 4,988 mm of rain and 170 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 163,362 · 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 25 °C
Coldest month January 17 °C
Driest month January 232 mm
Wettest month November 631 mm
Least cloud January 70 % cloud
Hottest on record June 33 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectPiedecuesta through the year

Piedecuesta 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, 170 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 631 mm against 232 mm in January — 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	25.1 °C	232 mm	70 %
February	25.4 °C	260 mm	73 %
March	25.4 °C	330 mm	82 %
April	25.0 °C	432 mm	92 %
May	24.8 °C	496 mm	95 %
June	24.8 °C	451 mm	94 %
July	24.9 °C	386 mm	92 %
August	25.2 °C	314 mm	91 %
September	25.1 °C	426 mm	92 %
October	24.7 °C	548 mm	93 %
November	24.4 °C	631 mm	91 %
December	24.6 °C	483 mm	80 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	25.1 °C	17.1 °C	20.8 °C	30.6 °C	12.1 °C	15
February	25.4 °C	17.5 °C	21.2 °C	30.8 °C	12.6 °C	18
March	25.4 °C	17.9 °C	21.4 °C	30.8 °C	13.5 °C	18
April	25.0 °C	18.2 °C	21.3 °C	28.7 °C	13.6 °C	15
May	24.8 °C	18.3 °C	21.2 °C	29.4 °C	14.3 °C	13
June	24.8 °C	18.0 °C	21.1 °C	33.0 °C	14.1 °C	13
July	24.9 °C	17.6 °C	21.0 °C	29.9 °C	13.6 °C	14
August	25.2 °C	17.7 °C	21.2 °C	30.5 °C	14.2 °C	17
September	25.1 °C	17.7 °C	21.1 °C	30.1 °C	14.3 °C	15
October	24.7 °C	17.7 °C	20.8 °C	29.7 °C	14.3 °C	12
November	24.4 °C	17.9 °C	20.7 °C	29.7 °C	13.2 °C	8
December	24.6 °C	17.3 °C	20.6 °C	29.1 °C	12.1 °C	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	232 mm	23	12 h/day	70 %	85 %	6.3 km/h
February	260 mm	22	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	6.3 km/h
March	330 mm	27	12 h/day	82 %	86 %	6.3 km/h
April	432 mm	29	12 h/day	92 %	88 %	6.1 km/h
May	496 mm	30	12 h/day	95 %	89 %	5.8 km/h
June	451 mm	28	13 h/day	94 %	88 %	5.6 km/h
July	386 mm	28	12 h/day	92 %	87 %	5.7 km/h
August	314 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	86 %	5.9 km/h
September	426 mm	28	12 h/day	92 %	87 %	6.2 km/h
October	548 mm	30	12 h/day	93 %	88 %	6.3 km/h
November	631 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	88 %	6.3 km/h
December	483 mm	27	12 h/day	80 %	87 %	6.3 km/h

How Piedecuesta 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
Piedecuesta	25 °C	17 °C	4,988 mm	170
Floridablanca · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	5,162 mm	178
Bucaramanga · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	8,974 mm	105
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 Piedecuesta.

QuestionsCommon questions about Piedecuesta’s climate

When is the best time to visit Piedecuesta?

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

How hot does Piedecuesta get?

In February, 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 33 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

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

Which month is wettest in Piedecuesta?

November, averaging 631 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 232 mm. The year as a whole averages 4,988 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 Piedecuesta 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: 6.988°, -73.050° (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.