Climate and average weather in Río Cuarto

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

Best: late July to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Río Cuarto typically varies from 5°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 35°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Río Cuarto for warm-weather activities are from early February to mid June and late July to early December.

Hottest
Jan
29°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Dec
107 mm
Driest
Jul
11 mm
Rain / yr
737 mm
83 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
429 m
33.1°S
Clearest
Aug
37% cloud

Río Cuarto is city in Cordoba, Argentina.

Density
2,444/km²
people per km²
Founded
1786

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

Río Cuarto 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 late July to early December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from November 7 to March 18, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Río Cuarto is January, with an average high of 29°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from May 23 to August 14, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Río Cuarto is July, with an average low of 5°C and high of 15°C.

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

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2919
Feb2818
Mar2616
Apr2313
May199
Jun166
Jul155
Aug186
Sep219
Oct2413
Nov2715
Dec2918

Average hourly temperature in Río Cuarto

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

Río Cuarto 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° / 19°9710.313.95.5
Feb28° / 18°898.613.26.5
Mar26° / 16°889.412.37.0
Apr23° / 13°677.111.27.5
May19° / 344.810.36.9
Jun16° / 142.59.96.1
Jul15° / 112.4105.8
Aug18° / 202.710.87.2
Sep21° / 394.911.87.5
Oct24° / 13°849.412.87.3
Nov27° / 15°8810.313.76.7
Dec29° / 18°10710.714.15.7

Chance of rain

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

Río Cuarto gets about 737 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 6.5 months, from around Sep 29 to Apr 14, peaking in November at about 37% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 22.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 107 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 11 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 29 · 37%Jul 22 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3410
Feb319
Mar309
Apr237
May155
Jun93
Jul82
Aug93
Sep175
Oct299
Nov3510
Dec3511

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Río Cuarto collects about 737 mm of rain across 83 wet days — roughly 61 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 107 mm, while July is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec9789886734141120398488107
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan9710
Feb899
Mar889
Apr677
May345
Jun143
Jul112
Aug203
Sep395
Oct849
Nov8810
Dec10711

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Río Cuarto, 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 July 16 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around September 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 23 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around July 15. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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 12 · 73%May 21 · 52%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6832
Mar6535
Apr6238
May5545
Jun6040
Jul6535
Aug7129
Sep6733
Oct6040
Nov6535
Dec6931

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 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around June 12, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.96:288:26
Feb13.26:558:09
Mar12.37:197:35
Apr11.27:426:53
May10.38:056:23
Jun9.98:236:12
Jul10.08:236:23
Aug10.87:596:44
Sep11.87:187:06
Oct12.86:377:28
Nov13.76:107:55
Dec14.16:088:19

Sunny days

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

Río Cuarto 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 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.6 months, from around Jul 11 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 13 sunny days — about 29% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1218 daysMay 2212 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr15Bright
May13Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec16Bright

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 Río Cuarto, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around November 25 to April 10. The muggiest month is February, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 62% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 11 to November 24, 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 1 · 100%Feb 1 · 35%muggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan172133264
Feb162135225
Mar282727152
Apr60221340
May8311510
Jun964100
Jul982000
Aug964000
Sep936100
Oct7816510
Nov59251320
Dec342725131

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Río Cuarto is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Aug 1 to Jan 2. The windiest month is October, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 3 to Jul 31, with June the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeOct 3 · 14 km/hJun 23 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Río Cuarto

In seasonPeak

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

Río Cuarto'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 Río Cuarto

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Río Cuarto is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 times of year to visit Río Cuarto for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to mid June and again from late July to early December, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 16 · 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
Feb6.5good
Mar7.0good
Apr7.5ideal
May6.9good
Jun6.1good
Jul5.9good
Aug7.2good
Sep7.5ideal
Oct7.3good
Nov6.7good
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 Río Cuarto for hot-weather activities is from mid October to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 23 · 7.3

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 Río Cuarto, 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 15°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Río Cuarto sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Río Cuarto 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 Río Cuarto peaks around January 18 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 18UV 14Jun 21UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar10Extreme
Apr6High
May4Moderate
Jun3Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep7High
Oct10Very high
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Río Cuarto

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
Apr5.51.5
May3.50
Jun10
Jul20
Aug40
Sep62.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Río Cuarto is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about July 26 to July 5 (345 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeJul 2690%Jul 590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May990
Jun950
Jul8920
Aug950
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. Río Cuarto banks about 2,730 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan431
Feb356
Mar344
Apr232
May125
Jun25
Jul2
Aug70
Sep151
Oct252
Nov329
Dec410

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.

Río Cuarto receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Sep 15 to Mar 17. The brightest month is December, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 64% less than the December peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 197.3 kWhJun 192.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.1Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar5.0Bright
Apr3.8Moderate
May2.9Moderate
Jun2.6Moderate
Jul2.9Moderate
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep4.9Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov6.8Intense
Dec7.3Intense

Where is Río Cuarto?

Río Cuarto sits at 33.1°S, 64.4°W, 429 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is Embalse, 103 km away.

Topography around Río Cuarto

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Río Cuarto has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 48 m around an average of 440 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 165 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,788 m.

The land around Río Cuarto is covered by artificial surfaces (75%) within 3 km, cropland (86%) within 16 km, and cropland (84%) within 80 km.

3 km
48 m
16 km
165 m
80 km
1,788 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Embalse 103 km · Río Tercero 108 km · Villa Mercedes 119 km · Villa Nueva 129 km · Villa María 131 km · Laboulaye 142 km · Villa Dolores 153 km · Alta Gracia 165 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 Río Cuarto (-33.1304°, -64.3527°, elevation 429 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).