Climate and average weather in El Carmen de Chucurí

In El Carmen de Chucurí, the weather is humid, warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: mid May to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in El Carmen de Chucurí typically varies from 18°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 29°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit El Carmen de Chucurí for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late April.

Hottest
Feb
26°
Coldest
Nov
18°
Wettest
Oct
484 mm
Driest
Jan
202 mm
Rain / yr
4703 mm
356 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
775 m
6.7°N
Clearest
Jan
71% cloud

El Carmen de Chucurí 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 May to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in El Carmen de Chucurí stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 26°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 18°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2618
Feb2619
Mar2619
Apr2619
May2619
Jun2619
Jul2619
Aug2619
Sep2618
Oct2618
Nov2518
Dec2618

Average hourly temperature in El Carmen de Chucurí

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 February afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 18°C.

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

El Carmen de Chucurí 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
Jan26° / 18°20227.711.74.0
Feb26° / 19°27025.811.83.7
Mar26° / 19°42130.6123.4
Apr26° / 19°45729.812.13.3
May26° / 19°4723112.33.3
Jun26° / 19°42129.912.43.3
Jul26° / 19°41330.912.43.4
Aug26° / 19°42830.912.23.3
Sep26° / 18°45329.8123.3
Oct26° / 18°4843111.93.3
Nov25° / 18°40529.911.73.4
Dec26° / 18°27729.211.63.7

Chance of rain

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

El Carmen de Chucurí gets about 4703 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 9.0 months, from around Mar 9 to Dec 6, peaking in April at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 3.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 484 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 202 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 100%Jan 3 · 88%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9028
Feb9326
Mar9831
Apr9930
May10031
Jun10030
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep9930
Oct10031
Nov10030
Dec9429

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, El Carmen de Chucurí collects about 4703 mm of rain across 356 wet days — roughly 392 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 484 mm, while January is the driest at just 202 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202270421457472421413428453484405277
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20228
Feb27026
Mar42131
Apr45730
May47231
Jun42130
Jul41331
Aug42831
Sep45330
Oct48431
Nov40530
Dec27729

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In El Carmen de Chucurí, 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 December 4 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around March 16. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 28% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 17 and lasts for 8.6 months, ending around December 3. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 29%May 7 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2872
Feb2278
Mar892
Apr298
May199
Jun298
Jul298
Aug298
Sep298
Oct199
Nov397
Dec1684

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 May 29, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:145:53
Feb11.86:156:02
Mar12.06:056:02
Apr12.15:505:59
May12.35:415:59
Jun12.45:436:06
Jul12.45:496:10
Aug12.25:516:05
Sep12.05:475:49
Oct11.95:445:35
Nov11.75:495:30
Dec11.66:025:39

Sunny days

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

El Carmen de Chucurí gets about 0 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 2 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyFeb 22 daysMar 280 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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.

El Carmen de Chucurí is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 85% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan15840
Feb17812
Mar5905
Apr0919
May08911
Jun0973
Jul1990
Aug1990
Sep0991
Oct1981
Nov1962
Dec6931

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 El Carmen de Chucurí is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 15 · 4 km/hMay 27 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit El Carmen de Chucurí

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, El Carmen de Chucurí 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. In El Carmen de Chucurí it holds close to 4.1 all year, so any month is about as good as another for general outdoor tourist activities.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb3.7fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr3.3poor
May3.3poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. In El Carmen de Chucurí it holds close to 3.8 all year, so any month is about as good as another for hot-weather activities.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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 El Carmen de Chucurí, 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.

El Carmen de Chucurí packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, El Carmen de Chucurí sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 19°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in El Carmen de Chucurí 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 El Carmen de Chucurí peaks around February 20 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 20UV 14Dec 14UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in El Carmen de Chucurí

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 February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in El Carmen de Chucurí 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 El Carmen de Chucurí is worst in March — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.3× the cleanest month (December, 18 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1738 µg/m³Dec 1018 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar40Poor
Apr29Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec18Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

El Carmen de Chucurí is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
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. El Carmen de Chucurí banks about 4,437 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan370
Feb348
Mar389
Apr377
May389
Jun366
Jul373
Aug373
Sep358
Oct370
Nov356
Dec368

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.

El Carmen de Chucurí receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.5 and 5.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 275.7 kWhNov 164.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is El Carmen de Chucurí?

El Carmen de Chucurí sits at 6.7°N, 73.5°W, 775 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Socorro, 38 km away.

Topography around El Carmen de Chucurí

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of El Carmen de Chucurí.

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Carmen de Chucurí has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 818 m around an average of 712 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,226 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,850 m.

The land around El Carmen de Chucurí is covered by trees (93%) within 3 km, trees (91%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
818 m
16 km
3,226 m
80 km
3,850 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Socorro 38 km · San Gil 44 km · Barrancabermeja 56 km · Yondó 56 km · Girón 56 km · Piedecuesta 60 km · Floridablanca 62 km · Bucaramanga 64 km

Colombia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 240 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,562
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
74%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
15.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 480
Religion
Roman Catholic 64%Protestant 17%none 14%atheist 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 El Carmen de Chucurí (6.6974°, -73.5112°, elevation 775 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).