Iquitos climate

Name: Iquitos
Address: PE

Iquitos is warmest in October, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 22 °C. April is the wettest month (297 mm) and August the driest (151 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Iquitos averages 2,738 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Peru · population 377,609 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month July 22 °C
Driest month August 151 mm
Wettest month April 297 mm
Least cloud August 71 % cloud
Hottest on record February 37 °C
Coldest on record June 17 °C

What to expectIquitos through the year

Iquitos changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 147 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in February.

Rain is spread fairly evenly through the year, from 151 mm in August to 297 mm in April. There is no dry season to aim for.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.1 °C	243 mm	86 %
February	30.0 °C	231 mm	89 %
March	29.9 °C	297 mm	91 %
April	29.4 °C	297 mm	89 %
May	28.8 °C	272 mm	84 %
June	28.2 °C	215 mm	79 %
July	28.3 °C	166 mm	74 %
August	29.4 °C	151 mm	71 %
September	30.1 °C	174 mm	77 %
October	30.2 °C	200 mm	84 %
November	29.9 °C	233 mm	87 %
December	29.9 °C	259 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.1 °C	23.5 °C	26.0 °C	35.1 °C	21.5 °C	31	16
February	30.0 °C	23.6 °C	26.0 °C	37.0 °C	21.7 °C	28	14
March	29.9 °C	23.5 °C	25.9 °C	36.2 °C	21.8 °C	31	14
April	29.4 °C	23.4 °C	25.6 °C	33.9 °C	18.6 °C	30	12
May	28.8 °C	23.0 °C	25.2 °C	32.9 °C	19.7 °C	31	8
June	28.2 °C	22.5 °C	24.7 °C	31.7 °C	16.5 °C	29	4
July	28.3 °C	22.2 °C	24.5 °C	32.3 °C	17.8 °C	30	3
August	29.4 °C	22.6 °C	25.2 °C	34.2 °C	17.2 °C	31	12
September	30.1 °C	23.2 °C	25.8 °C	34.7 °C	20.0 °C	30	16
October	30.2 °C	23.6 °C	26.1 °C	34.8 °C	21.4 °C	31	17
November	29.9 °C	23.6 °C	26.0 °C	34.0 °C	20.9 °C	30	15
December	29.9 °C	23.5 °C	25.9 °C	34.5 °C	21.5 °C	31	15

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	243 mm	25	12 h/day	86 %	88 %	7.8 km/h
February	231 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	88 %	7.6 km/h
March	297 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	7.2 km/h
April	297 mm	27	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	7.0 km/h
May	272 mm	26	12 h/day	84 %	90 %	6.8 km/h
June	215 mm	25	12 h/day	79 %	91 %	6.6 km/h
July	166 mm	23	12 h/day	74 %	90 %	6.4 km/h
August	151 mm	21	12 h/day	71 %	89 %	6.6 km/h
September	174 mm	23	12 h/day	77 %	89 %	6.7 km/h
October	200 mm	25	12 h/day	84 %	89 %	6.9 km/h
November	233 mm	26	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	7.4 km/h
December	259 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	7.7 km/h

How Iquitos 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
Iquitos	30 °C	22 °C	2,738 mm	362
Riobamba · Ecuador	19 °C	8.1 °C	1,297 mm	0
Cuenca · Ecuador	19 °C	8.8 °C	1,512 mm	0
Ambato · Ecuador	18 °C	7.9 °C	2,004 mm	0
Loja · Ecuador	22 °C	13 °C	1,283 mm	1
Latacunga · Ecuador	18 °C	8.0 °C	1,831 mm	0
Cajamarca · Peru	21 °C	8.8 °C	2,619 mm	0

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Iquitos’s climate

When is the best time to visit Iquitos?

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

How hot does Iquitos get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 147 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Iquitos?

April, averaging 297 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is August with 151 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,738 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 Iquitos 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: -3.748°, -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.