Climate and average weather in Pacho

In Pacho, 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 June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pacho typically varies from 14°C to 23°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 25°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Pacho for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and mid June to mid September.

Hottest
May
23°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
May
396 mm
Driest
Jan
138 mm
Rain / yr
3387 mm
338 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,783 m
5.1°N
Clearest
Jan
75% cloud
Founded
1604

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

Pacho 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 June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Pacho stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 23°C and low of 16°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2214
Feb2315
Mar2315
Apr2316
May2316
Jun2315
Jul2315
Aug2315
Sep2315
Oct2215
Nov2215
Dec2215

Average hourly temperature in Pacho

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 May afternoons, near 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 14°C.

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

Pacho 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
Jan22° / 14°13824.211.74.4
Feb23° / 15°18023.811.84.1
Mar23° / 15°28529.2123.7
Apr23° / 16°38929.512.13.4
May23° / 16°39630.812.23.4
Jun23° / 15°30228.512.33.6
Jul23° / 15°27628.812.33.8
Aug23° / 15°27927.812.23.9
Sep23° / 15°34929123.6
Oct22° / 15°35030.711.93.4
Nov22° / 15°25329.311.83.5
Dec22° / 15°19126.511.74.1

Chance of rain

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

Pacho gets about 3387 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 3.5 months, from around Mar 10 to Jun 24, peaking in May at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 31.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 396 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 138 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 13 · 100%Dec 31 · 77%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7824
Feb8524
Mar9429
Apr9830
May9931
Jun9529
Jul9229
Aug9128
Sep9629
Oct9931
Nov9729
Dec8627

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pacho collects about 3387 mm of rain across 338 wet days — roughly 282 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 396 mm, while January is the driest at just 138 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec138180285389396302276279349350253191
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13824
Feb18024
Mar28529
Apr38930
May39631
Jun30229
Jul27629
Aug27928
Sep34929
Oct35031
Nov25329
Dec19127

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pacho, 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 8 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around March 12. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 20% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 13 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around July 7. 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 4 · 21%May 1 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb1684
Mar793
Apr298
May199
Jun496
Jul991
Aug1090
Sep694
Oct199
Nov298
Dec1288

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. Close to the equator, Pacho barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:145:58
Feb11.86:166:06
Mar12.06:076:05
Apr12.15:536:00
May12.25:466:00
Jun12.35:486:06
Jul12.35:546:10
Aug12.25:566:06
Sep12.05:505:52
Oct11.95:455:38
Nov11.85:495:35
Dec11.76:025:44

Sunny days

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

Pacho gets about 1 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.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyJan 22 daysApr 140 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
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 Pacho, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around February 19 to June 17. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 86% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 18 to October 10, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 61% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 26 · 64%May 6 · 8%humidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan24950
Feb23662
Mar02476
Apr01288
May01486
Jun03763
Jul06039
Aug05941
Sep05050
Oct03367
Nov02575
Dec03960

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 Pacho is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 2 · 5 km/hApr 23 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Pacho

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Pacho 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 Pacho for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid June to mid September and again from late November to late March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 4.5

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr3.4poor
May3.4poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.5poor
Dec4.0fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. In Pacho it holds close to 3.3 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 Pacho, 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.

Pacho packs about the same all year — highs hold near 23°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 May, Pacho sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 16°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 31 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pacho 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 Pacho peaks around February 18 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 18UV 16Dec 14UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb17Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep15Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Pacho

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 8.5 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)
Jan86
Feb8.57
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86.5
Aug86.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Pacho 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 Pacho is worst in March — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (July, 20 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1834 µg/m³Jul 1420 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb27Moderate
Mar35Moderate
Apr29Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Pacho 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. Pacho banks about 3,227 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan259
Feb243
Mar278
Apr275
May287
Jun273
Jul279
Aug279
Sep262
Oct269
Nov260
Dec263

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.

Pacho receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.7 and 5.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 25.7 kWhNov 164.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Pacho?

Pacho sits at 5.1°N, 74.2°W, 1,783 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Zipaquirá, 21 km away.

Topography around Pacho

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pacho has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 853 m around an average of 1,934 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,762 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,668 m.

The land around Pacho is covered by trees (51%) and grassland (45%) within 3 km, trees (54%) and grassland (45%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) and grassland (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
853 m
16 km
2,762 m
80 km
3,668 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Zipaquirá 21 km · Cajicá 28 km · La Mesa 31 km · Chía 32 km · Tocancipá 33 km · Bosconia 37 km · Cota 37 km · Villeta 37 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 Pacho (5.1328°, -74.1598°, elevation 1,783 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).