Soacha climate

Name: Soacha
Address: CO

Soacha is warmest in August, with average highs of 20 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10 °C. November is the wettest month (266 mm) and August the driest (34 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Soacha averages 2,017 mm of rain and 0 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 655,025 · 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 20 °C
Coldest month January 10 °C
Driest month August 34 mm
Wettest month November 266 mm
Least cloud January 77 % cloud
Hottest on record September 26 °C
Coldest on record January 5.1 °C

What to expectSoacha through the year

Soacha changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 19 and 20 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 0 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 26 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 266 mm against 34 mm in August — 7.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	18.6 °C	195 mm	77 %
February	18.8 °C	212 mm	81 %
March	18.7 °C	257 mm	88 %
April	18.3 °C	244 mm	92 %
May	18.2 °C	175 mm	92 %
June	18.6 °C	57 mm	87 %
July	19.2 °C	39 mm	83 %
August	20.3 °C	34 mm	80 %
September	20.1 °C	103 mm	83 %
October	18.7 °C	223 mm	90 %
November	18.0 °C	266 mm	90 %
December	18.3 °C	214 mm	81 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low
January	18.6 °C	10.5 °C	13.7 °C	22.8 °C	5.1 °C
February	18.8 °C	10.9 °C	14.0 °C	23.6 °C	5.7 °C
March	18.7 °C	11.3 °C	14.1 °C	23.0 °C	7.1 °C
April	18.3 °C	11.4 °C	14.1 °C	22.7 °C	6.8 °C
May	18.2 °C	11.6 °C	14.2 °C	22.9 °C	7.3 °C
June	18.6 °C	11.5 °C	14.3 °C	21.8 °C	7.4 °C
July	19.2 °C	11.4 °C	14.5 °C	23.4 °C	6.4 °C
August	20.3 °C	11.5 °C	15.1 °C	24.1 °C	6.2 °C
September	20.1 °C	11.2 °C	14.8 °C	25.5 °C	6.2 °C
October	18.7 °C	10.7 °C	13.9 °C	24.7 °C	6.4 °C
November	18.0 °C	10.6 °C	13.6 °C	21.3 °C	7.2 °C
December	18.3 °C	10.5 °C	13.7 °C	23.0 °C	6.0 °C

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	195 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	82 %	8.0 km/h
February	212 mm	21	12 h/day	81 %	82 %	7.6 km/h
March	257 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	84 %	7.5 km/h
April	244 mm	23	12 h/day	92 %	85 %	7.1 km/h
May	175 mm	18	12 h/day	92 %	82 %	6.8 km/h
June	57 mm	9	12 h/day	87 %	74 %	7.3 km/h
July	39 mm	6	12 h/day	83 %	68 %	7.9 km/h
August	34 mm	6	12 h/day	80 %	63 %	8.3 km/h
September	103 mm	13	12 h/day	83 %	70 %	7.6 km/h
October	223 mm	23	12 h/day	90 %	82 %	7.5 km/h
November	266 mm	26	12 h/day	90 %	87 %	7.8 km/h
December	214 mm	23	12 h/day	81 %	84 %	7.8 km/h

How Soacha 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
Soacha	20 °C	10 °C	2,017 mm	0
Bogotá · Colombia	20 °C	11 °C	929 mm	0
Villavicencio · Colombia	30 °C	19 °C	2,125 mm	347
Ibagué · Colombia	26 °C	17 °C	1,431 mm	147
Tunja · Colombia	18 °C	7.8 °C	1,785 mm	0
Manizales · Colombia	21 °C	9.6 °C	14,397 mm	5
Armenia · Colombia	23 °C	14 °C	5,718 mm	15

Where Soacha ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in August	8th of 50	95/100
The coolest places in South America in November	12th of 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America in December	16th of 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America in February	17th of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in March	17th of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in January	19th of 50	19 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Soacha’s climate

When is the best time to visit Soacha?

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

How hot does Soacha get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 20 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 26 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 10 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Soacha?

November, averaging 266 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is August with 34 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,017 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 Soacha 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: 4.579°, -74.217° (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.