Valledupar climate

Name: Valledupar
Address: CO

Valledupar is warmest in February, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. May is the wettest month (322 mm) and January the driest (23 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Valledupar averages 1,987 mm of rain and 346 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · population 490,075 · 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 29 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month January 23 mm
Wettest month May 322 mm
Least cloud January 44 % cloud
Hottest on record April 41 °C
Coldest on record January 14 °C

What to expectValledupar through the year

Valledupar changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 29 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 346 days a year reach 25 °C, 64 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 322 mm against 23 mm in January — 14 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.5 °C	23 mm	44 %
February	29.3 °C	34 mm	48 %
March	29.3 °C	92 mm	61 %
April	28.3 °C	229 mm	83 %
May	27.5 °C	322 mm	91 %
June	28.1 °C	156 mm	85 %
July	28.9 °C	99 mm	85 %
August	29.2 °C	145 mm	86 %
September	28.4 °C	194 mm	87 %
October	27.3 °C	308 mm	87 %
November	26.9 °C	295 mm	79 %
December	27.8 °C	88 mm	60 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.5 °C	20.2 °C	24.0 °C	37.6 °C	14.4 °C	30	6
February	29.3 °C	20.8 °C	24.7 °C	38.3 °C	15.0 °C	28	7
March	29.3 °C	21.3 °C	25.0 °C	38.9 °C	15.9 °C	30	8
April	28.3 °C	21.9 °C	24.9 °C	41.0 °C	16.1 °C	29	5
May	27.5 °C	22.3 °C	24.8 °C	38.7 °C	19.5 °C	29	3
June	28.1 °C	22.2 °C	25.1 °C	37.7 °C	18.3 °C	30	4
July	28.9 °C	21.9 °C	25.2 °C	39.6 °C	18.7 °C	31	5
August	29.2 °C	22.3 °C	25.5 °C	39.4 °C	19.0 °C	31	8
September	28.4 °C	22.2 °C	25.1 °C	39.6 °C	18.9 °C	29	6
October	27.3 °C	21.7 °C	24.3 °C	36.6 °C	17.5 °C	28	4
November	26.9 °C	21.3 °C	23.9 °C	38.0 °C	16.1 °C	25	3
December	27.8 °C	20.7 °C	24.0 °C	38.2 °C	14.8 °C	28	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	23 mm	4	12 h/day	44 %	71 %	11 km/h
February	34 mm	5	12 h/day	48 %	68 %	12 km/h
March	92 mm	12	12 h/day	61 %	70 %	10 km/h
April	229 mm	20	12 h/day	83 %	78 %	8.6 km/h
May	322 mm	27	13 h/day	91 %	82 %	7.1 km/h
June	156 mm	22	13 h/day	85 %	79 %	8.1 km/h
July	99 mm	18	13 h/day	85 %	75 %	9.1 km/h
August	145 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	74 %	8.1 km/h
September	194 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	77 %	7.2 km/h
October	308 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	81 %	7.1 km/h
November	295 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	82 %	7.6 km/h
December	88 mm	10	12 h/day	60 %	76 %	10.0 km/h

How Valledupar 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
Valledupar	29 °C	20 °C	1,987 mm	346
Riohacha · Colombia	33 °C	24 °C	972 mm	365
Santa Marta · Colombia	29 °C	24 °C	2,149 mm	365
Maicao · Colombia	33 °C	24 °C	903 mm	365
Soledad · Colombia	31 °C	25 °C	1,803 mm	365
Barranquilla · Colombia	30 °C	25 °C	1,803 mm	365
Maracaibo · Venezuela	33 °C	24 °C	1,069 mm	365

Where Valledupar ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in January	48th of 50	81/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Valledupar’s climate

When is the best time to visit Valledupar?

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 Valledupar get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 64 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Valledupar?

May, averaging 322 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 23 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,987 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 Valledupar 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: 10.465°, -73.253° (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.