Huánuco climate

Name: Huánuco
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Huánuco is warmest in October, with average highs of 23 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 13 °C. February is the wettest month (163 mm) and July the driest (20 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Huánuco averages 964 mm of rain and 15 days above 25 °C.

Peru · population 196,627 · 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 October 23 °C
Coldest month July 13 °C
Driest month July 20 mm
Wettest month February 163 mm
Least cloud July 55 % cloud
Hottest on record October 31 °C
Coldest on record August 7.4 °C

What to expectHuánuco through the year

Huánuco changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 22 and 23 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 15 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. February averages 163 mm against 20 mm in July — 8.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	22.6 °C	149 mm	90 %
February	22.4 °C	163 mm	94 %
March	22.4 °C	146 mm	93 %
April	22.6 °C	76 mm	84 %
May	22.5 °C	46 mm	70 %
June	22.1 °C	23 mm	60 %
July	22.1 °C	20 mm	55 %
August	22.6 °C	23 mm	55 %
September	23.1 °C	34 mm	68 %
October	23.4 °C	66 mm	81 %
November	23.4 °C	90 mm	87 %
December	22.9 °C	128 mm	90 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	22.6 °C	16.2 °C	18.9 °C	27.6 °C	11.1 °C	1
February	22.4 °C	16.3 °C	18.8 °C	26.3 °C	11.6 °C	1
March	22.4 °C	16.2 °C	18.8 °C	25.6 °C	11.1 °C	0
April	22.6 °C	15.6 °C	18.7 °C	26.5 °C	9.9 °C	0
May	22.5 °C	14.7 °C	18.3 °C	26.7 °C	9.2 °C	1
June	22.1 °C	13.8 °C	17.7 °C	26.2 °C	8.1 °C	1
July	22.1 °C	13.1 °C	17.3 °C	26.7 °C	7.6 °C	1
August	22.6 °C	13.5 °C	17.8 °C	27.8 °C	7.4 °C	1
September	23.1 °C	14.5 °C	18.4 °C	28.3 °C	8.0 °C	2
October	23.4 °C	15.4 °C	18.9 °C	30.9 °C	9.9 °C	3
November	23.4 °C	15.8 °C	19.2 °C	27.7 °C	10.9 °C	3
December	22.9 °C	16.1 °C	19.1 °C	28.2 °C	10.4 °C	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	149 mm	25	13 h/day	90 %	81 %	7.5 km/h
February	163 mm	24	12 h/day	94 %	82 %	7.5 km/h
March	146 mm	25	12 h/day	93 %	82 %	7.2 km/h
April	76 mm	16	12 h/day	84 %	80 %	7.0 km/h
May	46 mm	12	12 h/day	70 %	79 %	6.9 km/h
June	23 mm	6	12 h/day	60 %	77 %	7.1 km/h
July	20 mm	5	12 h/day	55 %	75 %	7.6 km/h
August	23 mm	5	12 h/day	55 %	73 %	8.3 km/h
September	34 mm	9	12 h/day	68 %	75 %	8.6 km/h
October	66 mm	15	12 h/day	81 %	77 %	8.2 km/h
November	90 mm	18	13 h/day	87 %	78 %	7.9 km/h
December	128 mm	22	13 h/day	90 %	80 %	7.6 km/h

How Huánuco 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
Huánuco	23 °C	13 °C	964 mm	15
Santa Anita - Los Ficus · Peru	25 °C	14 °C	85 mm	25
Lima · Peru	26 °C	15 °C	85 mm	91
Pucallpa · Peru	31 °C	22 °C	2,508 mm	360
Callao · Peru	26 °C	15 °C	85 mm	89
Huancayo · Peru	17 °C	4.9 °C	1,509 mm	0
Chimbote · Peru	27 °C	15 °C	49 mm	94

Where Huánuco ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in August	6th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in South America in July	19th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in the world in August	25th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in South America in September	26th of 50	90/100
Places with the best weather in South America in June	27th of 50	94/100
Places with the best weather in South America year-round	32nd of 50	83/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Huánuco’s climate

When is the best time to visit Huánuco?

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

How hot does Huánuco get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 23 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 13 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Huánuco?

February, averaging 163 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is July with 20 mm. The year as a whole averages 964 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 Huánuco 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: -9.929°, -76.240° (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.