Climate and average weather in Puerto Wilches

In Puerto Wilches, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: mid December to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Puerto Wilches typically varies from 23°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 35°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 Puerto Wilches for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late February.

Hottest
Feb
32°
Coldest
Nov
23°
Wettest
Nov
424 mm
Driest
Jan
114 mm
Rain / yr
3826 mm
303 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
67 m
7.3°N
Clearest
Jan
58% cloud

Puerto Wilches 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 late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Puerto Wilches stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3124
Feb3224
Mar3224
Apr3124
May3124
Jun3124
Jul3124
Aug3124
Sep3024
Oct3023
Nov3023
Dec3024

How hot and cold Puerto Wilches really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Puerto Wilches feels like about 39°C (around March 5). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37312424
Feb38322424
Mar38322424
Apr38312424
May38312424
Jun38312424
Jul37312424
Aug38312424
Sep37302424
Oct36302323
Nov36302323
Dec36302424

Average hourly temperature in Puerto Wilches

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 23°C.

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

Puerto Wilches 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
Jan31° / 24°11418.611.63.8
Feb32° / 24°13616.911.83.4
Mar32° / 24°26425.1122.7
Apr31° / 24°38728.212.22.4
May31° / 24°41929.212.32.4
Jun31° / 24°35524.812.42.8
Jul31° / 24°33423.112.43.0
Aug31° / 24°33324.812.22.8
Sep30° / 24°39827.7122.6
Oct30° / 23°4233011.82.5
Nov30° / 23°42429.611.72.6
Dec30° / 24°23925.111.63.2

Chance of rain

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

Puerto Wilches gets about 3826 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 3.8 months, from around Aug 22 to Dec 14, peaking in November at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 30.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 424 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 114 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 6 · 100%Jan 30 · 56%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6119
Feb6017
Mar8125
Apr9428
May9329
Jun8325
Jul7523
Aug8125
Sep9228
Oct9730
Nov9830
Dec8125

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Puerto Wilches collects about 3826 mm of rain across 303 wet days — roughly 319 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 424 mm, while January is the driest at just 114 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec114136264387419355334333398423424239
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11419
Feb13617
Mar26425
Apr38728
May41929
Jun35525
Jul33423
Aug33325
Sep39828
Oct42330
Nov42430
Dec23925

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Puerto Wilches, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 30 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 30. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 31 and lasts for 8.0 months, ending around November 29. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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 27 · 54%May 6 · 3%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4555
Mar2575
Apr892
May496
Jun694
Jul793
Aug694
Sep496
Oct694
Nov1189
Dec3268

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 20, 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)
Jan11.66:165:53
Feb11.86:176:03
Mar12.06:076:04
Apr12.25:516:01
May12.35:426:02
Jun12.45:436:09
Jul12.45:506:13
Aug12.25:526:07
Sep12.05:495:51
Oct11.85:465:36
Nov11.75:515:31
Dec11.66:045:39

Sunny days

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

Puerto Wilches averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Dec 4 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 8 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 299 daysMay 60 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Puerto Wilches 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 100% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan3565
Feb3664
Mar2971
Apr1981
May1387
Jun1981
Jul2872
Aug2575
Sep3367
Oct3664
Nov3862
Dec3268

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 4 · 4 km/hDec 2 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb3calm
Mar3calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit Puerto Wilches

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Puerto Wilches 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 Puerto Wilches for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 18 · 3.8

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct2.5poor
Nov2.6poor
Dec3.2poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Puerto Wilches for hot-weather activities run from mid July to late July and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 27 · 5.6

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 Puerto Wilches, 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.

Puerto Wilches packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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, Puerto Wilches sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 17 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Puerto Wilches 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 Puerto Wilches peaks around February 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 18UV 13Dec 15UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Puerto Wilches

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
Oct7.55.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Puerto Wilches 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 Puerto Wilches is worst in March — around 80 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 6.6× the cleanest month (November, 12 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateMar 1774 µg/m³Nov 1612 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb31Moderate
Mar80Unhealthy
Apr33Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Puerto Wilches 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. Puerto Wilches banks about 6,308 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan534
Feb500
Mar552
Apr525
May542
Jun522
Jul540
Aug539
Sep509
Oct521
Nov501
Dec523

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.

Puerto Wilches receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.2 and 5.6 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 265.6 kWhNov 184.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Puerto Wilches?

Puerto Wilches sits at 7.3°N, 73.9°W, 67 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Barrancabermeja, 32 km away.

Topography around Puerto Wilches

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Puerto Wilches has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 17 m around an average of 66 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 322 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,319 m.

The land around Puerto Wilches is covered by trees (51%) and grassland (26%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (25%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) and grassland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
17 m
16 km
322 m
80 km
2,319 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Barrancabermeja 32 km · Yondó 38 km · Sabana de Torres 44 km · Simití 68 km · El Carmen de Chucurí 84 km · San Martín 84 km · Girón 86 km · Bucaramanga 89 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 Puerto Wilches (7.3483°, -73.896°, elevation 67 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).