Climate and average weather in Marcavelica

In Marcavelica, the summers are humid, sweltering, showery, and mostly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: mid June to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Marcavelica typically varies from 17°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 36°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
33°
Coldest
Aug
17°
Wettest
Mar
114 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
301 mm
43 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
62 m
4.9°S
Clearest
Aug
34% cloud

Marcavelica is locality in Marcavelica District, Peru.

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

Marcavelica 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Marcavelica stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 17°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3322
Feb3323
Mar3323
Apr3322
May3220
Jun2919
Jul2818
Aug2717
Sep2817
Oct2918
Nov3018
Dec3120

How hot and cold Marcavelica 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, Marcavelica feels like about 36°C (around March 10). About 151 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34332222
Feb36332323
Mar36332323
Apr35332222
May32322020
Jun30291919
Jul28281818
Aug28271717
Sep28281717
Oct29291818
Nov30301818
Dec32312020

Average hourly temperature in Marcavelica

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 March afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 17°C.

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

Marcavelica 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
Jan33° / 22°355.212.33.8
Feb33° / 23°759.912.23.1
Mar33° / 23°11411.2123.0
Apr33° / 22°426.511.93.7
May32° / 20°51.811.85.1
Jun29° / 19°20.811.76.8
Jul28° / 18°10.211.78.1
Aug27° / 17°00.111.88.4
Sep28° / 17°10.4127.7
Oct29° / 18°30.912.16.8
Nov30° / 18°71.812.26.1
Dec31° / 20°193.812.35.0

Chance of rain

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

Marcavelica gets about 301 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.6 months, from around Dec 14 to May 1, peaking in March at about 37% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 5.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 114 mm over about 11 wet days; August is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 20 · 37%Aug 5 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan185
Feb3410
Mar3611
Apr227
May62
Jun21
Jul10
Aug00
Sep10
Oct31
Nov62
Dec124

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Marcavelica collects about 301 mm of rain across 43 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 114 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec357511442521013719
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan355
Feb7510
Mar11411
Apr427
May52
Jun21
Jul10
Aug00
Sep10
Oct31
Nov72
Dec194

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Marcavelica, 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 April 26 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 27. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 28 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 25. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 5 · 85%Mar 14 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3169
Feb1387
Mar1387
Apr4159
May6040
Jun7228
Jul8119
Aug8317
Sep6832
Oct5743
Nov4852
Dec4654

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, Marcavelica 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)
Jan12.36:246:40
Feb12.26:336:42
Mar12.06:316:33
Apr11.96:266:20
May11.86:266:12
Jun11.76:316:15
Jul11.76:366:21
Aug11.86:326:22
Sep12.06:186:16
Oct12.16:056:11
Nov12.26:016:15
Dec12.36:116:27

Sunny days

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

Marcavelica averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Apr 28 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 921 daysMar 110 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May13Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul19Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct12Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around November 18 to June 23. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 24 to November 17, and August is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 54% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 27 · 55%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0365851
Feb01564183
Mar01659214
Apr04048121
May2682720
Jun14761000
Jul3957400
Aug5443300
Sep5542300
Oct4355200
Nov2075500
Dec1762020

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Marcavelica is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.8 months, from around May 6 to Dec 27. The windiest month is September, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 28 to May 5, with March the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 21 · 11 km/hMar 11 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Marcavelica

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Marcavelica 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 Marcavelica for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 8.5

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.1poor
Mar3.0poor
Apr3.7fair
May5.1fair
Jun6.8good
Jul8.1ideal
Aug8.4ideal
Sep7.7ideal
Oct6.8good
Nov6.1good
Dec5.0fair

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 Marcavelica for hot-weather activities is from late April to early January, with a peak score in the third week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 17 · 8.8

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 Marcavelica, 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.

For a warm-season trip around March (highs near 33°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Marcavelica sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Marcavelica

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 47 km away) is warmest in February at about 23°C and coldest in August near 18°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Dec 15 to May 28 — about 5.4 months when the water holds above 20°C.

16°18°20°22°24°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan22Refreshing
Feb23Refreshing
Mar23Refreshing
Apr21Refreshing
May20Refreshing
Jun19Cool
Jul19Cool
Aug18Cool
Sep18Cool
Oct19Cool
Nov19Cool
Dec20Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Marcavelica 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 Marcavelica peaks around February 17 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 17UV 16Jun 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Marcavelica

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 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May86
Jun75
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Marcavelica 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. Marcavelica banks about 5,500 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan537
Feb508
Mar566
Apr524
May494
Jun418
Jul390
Aug375
Sep377
Oct409
Nov418
Dec483

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.

Marcavelica receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.3 and 6.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 146.7 kWhFeb 85.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.6Intense
Oct6.7Intense
Nov6.6Intense
Dec6.2Intense

Where is Marcavelica?

Marcavelica sits at 4.9°S, 80.7°W, 62 m above sea level, in Peru. The nearest listed city is Sullana, 4.0 km away.

Topography around Marcavelica

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Marcavelica has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 90 m around an average of 50 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 150 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,256 m.

The land around Marcavelica is covered by trees (35%) within 3 km, bare terrain (29%) and shrubs (25%) within 16 km, and shrubs (30%) and bare terrain (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
90 m
16 km
150 m
80 km
2,256 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Sullana 4.0 km · Querecotillo 8.0 km · Piura 34 km · San Martin 34 km · Tambo Grande 40 km · Catacaos 43 km · Paita 51 km · La Unión 58 km

Peru travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B / C
220 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 51% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$9,684
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
49%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
8.6
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
13.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 519
Religion
Catholic 76%Evangelical Christian 16%no religion 5%other religions 3%

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 Marcavelica (-4.8778°, -80.7053°, elevation 62 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).