Climate and average weather in La Estrella

In La Estrella, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: mid December to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in La Estrella typically varies from 14°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 28°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Nov
14°
Wettest
May
338 mm
Driest
Jan
113 mm
Rain / yr
2796 mm
312 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,765 m
6.2°N
Clearest
Jan
72% cloud
Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 19.5 µg/m³ · 2019

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

La Estrella 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 December to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in La Estrella stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 14°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2414
Feb2514
Mar2514
Apr2414
May2414
Jun2514
Jul2514
Aug2614
Sep2514
Oct2414
Nov2314
Dec2414

Average hourly temperature in La Estrella

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 August afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 14°C.

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

La Estrella 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
Jan24° / 14°11318.311.75.4
Feb25° / 14°14020.111.84.9
Mar25° / 14°22526.4124.2
Apr24° / 14°30028.312.13.7
May24° / 14°33829.912.33.6
Jun25° / 14°24527.512.43.8
Jul25° / 14°21626.612.34.0
Aug26° / 14°22026.912.23.9
Sep25° / 14°26327.7123.7
Oct24° / 14°29129.311.93.7
Nov23° / 14°27528.111.73.7
Dec24° / 14°17022.611.64.8

Chance of rain

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

La Estrella gets about 2796 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 3.9 months, from around Mar 21 to Jul 18, peaking in April at about 97% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 338 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 113 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 27 · 97%Jan 25 · 59%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6118
Feb7120
Mar8526
Apr9428
May9630
Jun9228
Jul8627
Aug8827
Sep9228
Oct9429
Nov9328
Dec7323

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, La Estrella collects about 2796 mm of rain across 312 wet days — roughly 233 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 338 mm, while January is the driest at just 113 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec113140225300338245216220263291275170
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11318
Feb14020
Mar22526
Apr30028
May33830
Jun24528
Jul21627
Aug22027
Sep26328
Oct29129
Nov27528
Dec17023

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In La Estrella, 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 3.6 months, ending around March 23. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 27% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 24 and lasts for 8.4 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 3 · 28%May 13 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2278
Mar1189
Apr298
May199
Jun397
Jul595
Aug694
Sep496
Oct199
Nov496
Dec1783

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 June 12, 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)
Jan11.76:226:02
Feb11.86:236:11
Mar12.06:136:11
Apr12.15:596:07
May12.35:506:07
Jun12.45:526:13
Jul12.35:586:18
Aug12.26:016:13
Sep12.05:565:58
Oct11.95:525:43
Nov11.75:565:39
Dec11.66:095:48

Sunny days

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

La Estrella gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 3 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyJan 43 daysApr 200 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
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.

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around March 14 to June 18. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 19 to October 12, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 93% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 21 · 95%May 9 · 32%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan87815
Feb77419
Mar36533
Apr04357
May03664
Jun16633
Jul6877
Aug9847
Sep38413
Oct06733
Nov05446
Dec26830

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 17 · 3 km/hNov 27 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb3calm
Mar3calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit La Estrella

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, La Estrella 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 time of year to visit La Estrella for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 5.5

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
Jan5.4fair
Feb4.9fair
Mar4.2fair
Apr3.7fair
May3.6fair
Jun3.8fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.8fair

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 La Estrella for hot-weather activities is from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 26 · 4.8

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 La Estrella, 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.

La Estrella 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 August, La Estrella sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 14°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 27 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in La Estrella 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 La Estrella peaks around February 22 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 22UV 15Dec 12UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in La Estrella

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 6.5 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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.56
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in La Estrella 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 La Estrella is worst in March — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.6× the cleanest month (October, 16 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to La Estrella's WHO annual average of 19.5 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1526 µg/m³Oct 2116 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb23Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

La Estrella 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. La Estrella banks about 3,338 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan277
Feb259
Mar290
Apr277
May286
Jun276
Jul290
Aug297
Sep279
Oct273
Nov259
Dec273

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.

La Estrella receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Jun 6 to Sep 29. The brightest month is August, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is November, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the August peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseAug 45.9 kWhNov 164.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.9Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is La Estrella?

La Estrella sits at 6.2°N, 75.6°W, 1,765 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Sabaneta, 3.0 km away.

Topography around La Estrella

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around La Estrella has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,023 m around an average of 1,836 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,268 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,570 m.

The land around La Estrella is covered by trees (50%) and artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, trees (68%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) and grassland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,023 m
16 km
2,268 m
80 km
3,570 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Sabaneta 3.0 km · Itagüí 6.0 km · Envigado 6.0 km · Caldas 7.0 km · Medellin 13 km · Retiro 19 km · Bello 22 km · Copacabana 26 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 La Estrella (6.1577°, -75.6432°, elevation 1,765 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).