Climate and average weather in Pitalito

In Pitalito, 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 April.

Best: late June to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pitalito typically varies from 13°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 27°C. November is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Pitalito for warm-weather activities is from late June to mid June.

Hottest
Nov
25°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Apr
329 mm
Driest
Sep
200 mm
Rain / yr
3138 mm
347 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,265 m
1.9°N
Clearest
Jan
77% cloud

Pitalito 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 June to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Pitalito stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is November, with an average high of 25°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2414
Feb2414
Mar2415
Apr2315
May2315
Jun2214
Jul2113
Aug2213
Sep2313
Oct2414
Nov2515
Dec2415

Average hourly temperature in Pitalito

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 November afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Pitalito 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°2092711.94.2
Feb24° / 14°23424.611.94.1
Mar24° / 15°31630123.6
Apr23° / 15°32929.6123.5
May23° / 15°30730.612.13.4
Jun22° / 14°32129.512.13.3
Jul21° / 13°31630.312.13.4
Aug22° / 13°23128.812.13.7
Sep23° / 13°20028.2123.8
Oct24° / 14°23030123.7
Nov25° / 15°21829.111.93.6
Dec24° / 15°2282911.93.9

Chance of rain

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

Pitalito gets about 3138 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 5.1 months, from around Feb 28 to Aug 1, peaking in May at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 4.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 329 mm over about 30 wet days; September is the driest, with 200 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 4 · 99%Feb 4 · 85%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8727
Feb8825
Mar9730
Apr9930
May9931
Jun9930
Jul9830
Aug9429
Sep9428
Oct9730
Nov9729
Dec9429

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pitalito collects about 3138 mm of rain across 347 wet days — roughly 262 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 329 mm, while September is the driest at just 200 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec209234316329307321316231200230218228
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20927
Feb23425
Mar31630
Apr32930
May30731
Jun32130
Jul31630
Aug23129
Sep20028
Oct23030
Nov21829
Dec22829

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pitalito, 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 5 and lasts for 2.6 months, ending around February 22. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 14% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 23 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around July 24. 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 · 16%May 8 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb1090
Mar397
Apr298
May199
Jun298
Jul793
Aug1387
Sep1387
Oct694
Nov595
Dec1189

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, Pitalito barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.96:166:11
Feb11.96:216:17
Mar12.06:146:13
Apr12.06:036:06
May12.15:586:03
Jun12.16:016:08
Jul12.16:076:13
Aug12.16:066:10
Sep12.05:585:59
Oct12.05:505:48
Nov11.95:525:47
Dec11.96:045:57

Sunny days

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

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

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyFeb 31 daysMar 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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 Pitalito, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around January 28 to June 11. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 94% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 12 to October 15, and August is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 76% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 21 · 77%Apr 11 · 5%humidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan225720
Feb419751
Mar09891
Apr06931
May010900
Jun031690
Jul057430
Aug075240
Sep065350
Oct030700
Nov07921
Dec012870

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 31 · 4 km/hApr 12 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Pitalito

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early July, Pitalito 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 Pitalito it holds close to 4.2 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
Jan4.2fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.5fair
May3.4poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov3.6fair
Dec3.9fair

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 Pitalito for hot-weather activities is from early September to early April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 3 · 3.7

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 Pitalito, 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.

Pitalito packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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 November, Pitalito sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 29 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pitalito 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 Pitalito peaks around February 16 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 12 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 16UV 16Dec 13UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May15Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Pitalito

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.57
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May8.56.5
Jun86.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep8.56.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Pitalito 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 Pitalito is worst in February — around 45 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.1× the cleanest month (July, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateGoodModerateFeb 1642 µg/m³Jul 1311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb45Poor
Mar27Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun12Good
Jul11Good
Aug13Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Pitalito 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. Pitalito banks about 3,153 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around November.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan285
Feb260
Mar286
Apr271
May266
Jun232
Jul224
Aug230
Sep245
Oct279
Nov286
Dec289

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.

Pitalito receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around Aug 16 to Apr 4. The brightest month is September, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the September peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightSep 235.3 kWhJun 243.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar4.9Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun3.7Moderate
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Pitalito?

Pitalito sits at 1.9°N, 76.1°W, 1,265 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Isnos, 23 km away.

Topography around Pitalito

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pitalito has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 137 m around an average of 1,271 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,216 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,416 m.

The land around Pitalito is covered by grassland (61%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (71%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and trees (75%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
137 m
16 km
1,216 m
80 km
4,416 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Isnos 23 km · San Agustin 24 km · Guadalupe 38 km · Tarqui 38 km · Florencia 56 km · Garzón 60 km · La Plata 63 km · Gigante 81 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 Pitalito (1.8537°, -76.0507°, elevation 1,265 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).