Tunja climate

Name: Tunja
Address: CO

Tunja is warmest in February, with average highs of 18 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 7.8 °C. April is the wettest month (219 mm) and January the driest (93 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Colombia · population 172,548 · 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 18 °C
Coldest month August 7.8 °C
Driest month January 93 mm
Wettest month April 219 mm
Least cloud January 83 % cloud
Hottest on record January 22 °C
Coldest on record January 2.5 °C

What to expectTunja through the year

Tunja changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 16 and 18 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 219 mm against 93 mm in January — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	17.8 °C	93 mm	83 %
February	18.0 °C	131 mm	86 %
March	17.8 °C	204 mm	91 %
April	17.4 °C	219 mm	95 %
May	17.0 °C	182 mm	96 %
June	16.2 °C	151 mm	95 %
July	15.8 °C	152 mm	94 %
August	16.3 °C	115 mm	93 %
September	17.2 °C	103 mm	91 %
October	17.4 °C	158 mm	93 %
November	17.4 °C	162 mm	91 %
December	17.4 °C	116 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low
January	17.8 °C	8.5 °C	12.5 °C	22.0 °C	2.5 °C
February	18.0 °C	8.8 °C	12.7 °C	21.5 °C	4.1 °C
March	17.8 °C	9.2 °C	12.9 °C	21.3 °C	5.0 °C
April	17.4 °C	9.5 °C	12.8 °C	20.7 °C	5.8 °C
May	17.0 °C	9.3 °C	12.6 °C	20.8 °C	5.8 °C
June	16.2 °C	8.7 °C	12.0 °C	19.3 °C	4.8 °C
July	15.8 °C	8.2 °C	11.6 °C	19.3 °C	4.0 °C
August	16.3 °C	7.8 °C	11.7 °C	19.5 °C	5.0 °C
September	17.2 °C	7.9 °C	12.2 °C	20.6 °C	3.3 °C
October	17.4 °C	8.4 °C	12.4 °C	20.7 °C	5.0 °C
November	17.4 °C	8.9 °C	12.6 °C	20.0 °C	4.3 °C
December	17.4 °C	8.8 °C	12.5 °C	21.0 °C	3.7 °C

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	93 mm	18	12 h/day	83 %	82 %	10 km/h
February	131 mm	21	12 h/day	86 %	83 %	10 km/h
March	204 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	85 %	10 km/h
April	219 mm	28	12 h/day	95 %	87 %	10 km/h
May	182 mm	29	12 h/day	96 %	87 %	11 km/h
June	151 mm	28	12 h/day	95 %	86 %	12 km/h
July	152 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	86 %	13 km/h
August	115 mm	26	12 h/day	93 %	84 %	14 km/h
September	103 mm	24	12 h/day	91 %	82 %	14 km/h
October	158 mm	26	12 h/day	93 %	84 %	11 km/h
November	162 mm	26	12 h/day	91 %	86 %	8.9 km/h
December	116 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	85 %	9.6 km/h

How Tunja 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
Tunja	18 °C	7.8 °C	1,785 mm	0
Yopal · Colombia	31 °C	20 °C	1,446 mm	349
Bogotá · Colombia	20 °C	11 °C	929 mm	0
Soacha · Colombia	20 °C	10 °C	2,017 mm	0
Villavicencio · Colombia	30 °C	19 °C	2,125 mm	347
Piedecuesta · Colombia	25 °C	17 °C	4,988 mm	170
Floridablanca · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	5,162 mm	178

Where Tunja ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in South America in December	10th of 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in November	10th of 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in April	11th of 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in March	11th of 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America year-round	11th of 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in February	12th of 50	18 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tunja’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tunja?

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

How hot does Tunja get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 18 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 22 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 7.8 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tunja?

April, averaging 219 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 93 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,785 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 Tunja 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: 5.545°, -73.358° (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.