Climate and average weather in Cordoba

In Cordoba, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: mid February to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cordoba typically varies from 4°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 34°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Cordoba for warm-weather activities is from mid February to early December.

Hottest
Jan
29°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jan
133 mm
Driest
Jul
14 mm
Rain / yr
888 mm
102 wet days
Daylight
10.0–14.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
378 m
31.4°S
Clearest
Aug
32% cloud

Cordoba is city in Argentina, capital of its province.

Density
3,658/km²
people per km²
Founded
1573

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Cordoba weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid February to early December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Cordoba, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from November 5 to March 17, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Cordoba is January, with an average high of 29°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from May 21 to August 12, with daily high temperatures below 19°C. The coldest month of the year in Cordoba is July, with an average low of 4°C and high of 16°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2918
Feb2717
Mar2615
Apr2312
May199
Jun175
Jul164
Aug196
Sep219
Oct2412
Nov2615
Dec2817

Average hourly temperature in Cordoba

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on January afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Cordoba weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan29° / 18°13312.913.85.5
Feb27° / 17°12112.113.16.2
Mar26° / 15°1201212.26.7
Apr23° / 12°768.711.37.2
May19° / 356.310.46.8
Jun17° / 163.1106.5
Jul16° / 143.110.26.4
Aug19° / 183.110.97.5
Sep21° / 375.611.87.6
Oct24° / 12°859.612.87.2
Nov26° / 15°10411.713.66.5
Dec28° / 17°13113.3145.7

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Cordoba gets about 888 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 11 to Apr 15, peaking in January at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 19.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 133 mm over about 13 wet days; July is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 2 · 45%Jul 19 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4213
Feb4212
Mar3912
Apr289
May206
Jun113
Jul103
Aug113
Sep186
Oct3010
Nov3912
Dec4313

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cordoba collects about 888 mm of rain across 102 wet days — roughly 74 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 133 mm, while July is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13312112076351614183785104131
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13313
Feb12112
Mar12012
Apr769
May356
Jun163
Jul143
Aug183
Sep376
Oct8510
Nov10412
Dec13113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Cordoba, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 17 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around January 29 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around June 16. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 44% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 15 · 77%May 20 · 54%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb6238
Mar6139
Apr6040
May5644
Jun6436
Jul7129
Aug7624
Sep7228
Oct6238
Nov6436
Dec6436

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 14 hours of light; the shortest, around June 6, only 10 hours — a swing of roughly 4 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.86:318:21
Feb13.16:578:06
Mar12.27:197:34
Apr11.37:406:54
May10.48:016:25
Jun10.08:186:16
Jul10.28:186:27
Aug10.97:566:46
Sep11.87:177:05
Oct12.86:387:25
Nov13.66:137:51
Dec14.06:128:14

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Cordoba averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Jun 10 to Oct 11. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 13 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 920 daysMay 1912 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul19Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov13Mixed
Dec13Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Cordoba, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around November 21 to April 10. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 65% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 11 to November 20, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 2 · 100%Jan 31 · 33%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan142034284
Feb142236226
Mar242828172
Apr57221550
May8112610
Jun945100
Jul982000
Aug973000
Sep926100
Oct7418710
Nov52281630
Dec282728162

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Cordoba is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 2 · 10 km/hJun 6 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Cordoba

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Cordoba's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Cordoba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Cordoba throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late February, Cordoba is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Cordoba for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid February to early December, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 23 · 7.7

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.5good
Feb6.2good
Mar6.7good
Apr7.2good
May6.8good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.4good
Aug7.5good
Sep7.6ideal
Oct7.2good
Nov6.5good
Dec5.7good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Cordoba for hot-weather activities is from late September to mid April, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 20 · 6.8

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Cordoba, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around January (highs near 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 16°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Cordoba sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cordoba by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Cordoba peaks around January 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeHighModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 19UV 14Jun 21UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr6High
May4Moderate
Jun3Moderate
Jul4Moderate
Aug5Moderate
Sep7High
Oct10Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cordoba

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan97
Feb8.56.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr62
May40
Jun2.50
Jul2.50
Aug4.50
Sep62.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Cordoba by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Cordoba is worst in September — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.3× the cleanest month (November, 6 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1319 µg/m³Nov 236 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb7Good
Mar7Good
Apr6Good
May7Good
Jun8Good
Jul8Good
Aug15Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov6Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Cordoba is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 9 to June 18 (314 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 990%Jun 1890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May980
Jun912
Jul8431
Aug924
Sep990
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Cordoba banks about 2,616 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan407
Feb333
Mar323
Apr223
May123
Jun32
Jul6
Aug74
Sep149
Oct246
Nov314
Dec388

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Cordoba receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Sep 10 to Mar 15. The brightest month is December, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 59% less than the December peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 187.0 kWhJun 162.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.8Intense
Feb6.0Intense
Mar4.9Bright
Apr3.8Moderate
May3.0Moderate
Jun2.9Moderate
Jul3.2Moderate
Aug4.1Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov6.6Intense
Dec7.0Intense

Where is Cordoba?

Cordoba sits at 31.4°S, 64.2°W, 378 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is La Calera, 16 km away.

What Cordoba looks like

Topography around Cordoba

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Cordoba.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cordoba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 71 m around an average of 414 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 279 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,223 m.

The land around Cordoba is covered by artificial surfaces (93%) within 3 km, cropland (35%), artificial surfaces (32%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and cropland (54%) and grassland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
71 m
16 km
279 m
80 km
2,223 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: La Calera 16 km · Villa Allende 16 km · Unquillo 22 km · Villa Carlos Paz 29 km · Río Ceballos 29 km · Cosquín 32 km · Alta Gracia 35 km · Río Segundo 38 km

Argentina travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 46% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$14,898
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
4.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
14.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 575
Religion
Roman Catholic 63%none 19%Evangelical 15%Jehovah's Witness and Church of Jesus Christ 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Cordoba (-31.4065°, -64.1885°, elevation 378 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).