Climate and average weather in Sicuani

In Sicuani, the weather is cool, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near cool levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: early May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sicuani typically varies from -5°C to 13°C, and is rarely below -7°C or above 16°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Sicuani for warm-weather activities is from early May to late September.

Hottest
Oct
13°
Coldest
Jun
-4°
Wettest
Jan
248 mm
Driest
Jun
11 mm
Rain / yr
1381 mm
219 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
3,551 m
14.3°S
Clearest
Jul
34% cloud

Sicuani is town in Peru.

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

Sicuani 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 early May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Sicuani stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 13°C and low of 1°C; the coolest is June, with an average low of -4°C and high of 11°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in August.

-10°-5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan122
Feb122
Mar122
Apr120
May12-2
Jun11-4
Jul11-5
Aug12-4
Sep13-1
Oct131
Nov132
Dec132

How hot and cold Sicuani 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -8°C (around July 20), with roughly 208 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

-10°-5°10°15°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan121222
Feb121222
Mar121222
Apr121200
May1212-4-2
Jun1111-7-4
Jul1111-8-5
Aug1212-7-4
Sep1313-4-1
Oct1313-11
Nov131312
Dec131322

Average hourly temperature in Sicuani

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 October afternoons, near 13°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near -4°C.

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

Sicuani weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan12° / 248296.912.71.7
Feb12° / 23426.46.712.51.7
Mar12° / 21829.45.412.11.8
Apr12° / 10322.72.211.72.3
May12° / -2°279.50.811.33.3
Jun11° / -4°113.60.411.23.5
Jul11° / -5°113.70.711.23.5
Aug12° / -4°207.1111.53.8
Sep13° / -2°4715.51.411.93.2
Oct13° / 10722.13.412.32.7
Nov13° / 14522.74.212.72.5
Dec13° / 21127.1612.82.0

Chance of rain

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

Sicuani gets about 1381 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 7.0 months, from around Sep 26 to Apr 27, peaking in March at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 21.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 248 mm over about 29 wet days; June is the driest, with 11 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 2 · 95%Jun 21 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9429
Feb9526
Mar9429
Apr7523
May3210
Jun124
Jul124
Aug247
Sep5116
Oct7122
Nov7623
Dec8727

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sicuani collects about 1381 mm of rain across 219 wet days — roughly 115 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 248 mm, while June is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2482342181032711112047107145211
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan248297
Feb234267
Mar218295
Apr103232
May27101
Jun1140
Jul1141
Aug2071
Sep47161
Oct107223
Nov145234
Dec211276

Snow in Sicuani

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Sicuani averages about 39 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Jul 31 to May 21 — about 9.7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 36 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 162 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 18
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan736
Feb736
Mar521
Apr28
May12
Jun02
Jul12
Aug15
Sep15
Oct310
Nov415
Dec621

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sicuani, 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 23 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around September 30. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 1 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around April 22. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 14 · 86%Dec 29 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb397
Mar694
Apr2773
May6535
Jun7822
Jul8515
Aug8218
Sep5446
Oct2080
Nov991
Dec397

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 January 1, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around May 28, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.75:316:17
Feb12.55:456:14
Mar12.15:525:58
Apr11.75:555:36
May11.36:015:21
Jun11.26:105:20
Jul11.26:145:27
Aug11.56:035:35
Sep11.95:425:37
Oct12.35:205:40
Nov12.75:105:50
Dec12.85:166:06

Sunny days

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

Sicuani averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Apr 29 to Sep 13. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2020 daysJan 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May12Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul20Bright
Aug16Bright
Sep7Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
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 Sicuani, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)
Jan100
Feb100
Mar100
Apr100
May100
Jun100
Jul100
Aug100
Sep100
Oct100
Nov100
Dec100

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 Sicuani is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 13 · 7 km/hMar 8 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Sicuani

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Sicuani's monsoon runs November–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Sicuani

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Sicuani 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. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Sicuani for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 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
Jan1.7poor
Feb1.7poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr2.3poor
May3.3poor
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.5poor
Dec2.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Sicuani rarely gets warm enough to lift this score — no time of year really suits hot-weather activities here.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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 Sicuani, 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.

Sicuani packs about the same all year — highs hold near 13°C. Across the year the things worth having are a warm layer, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Sicuani sees daytime highs around 13°C and nights near 1°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer. About 22 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Sicuani 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 Sicuani peaks around February 9 at about 19 (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 9UV 19Jun 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan19Extreme
Feb19Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct17Extreme
Nov17Extreme
Dec17Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Sicuani

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 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7.5 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)
Jan97.5
Feb97.5
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun75
Jul75
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct97
Nov97.5
Dec97.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Sicuani typically lasts about 195 days, from around October 5 to April 17 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from November 22 to February 19.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasongrowing seasonSep 910%Oct 550%Nov 2290%Feb 1990%Apr 1750%May 1310%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan950
Feb9111
Mar9016
Apr5530
May1131
Jun130
Jul031
Aug231
Sep2030
Oct6531
Nov8723
Dec940

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. Sicuani banks about 0 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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.

Sicuani receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — intense — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.5 and 6.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 66.9 kWhJun 155.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.7Intense
Oct6.8Intense
Nov6.8Intense
Dec6.3Intense

Where is Sicuani?

Sicuani sits at 14.3°S, 71.2°W, 3,551 m above sea level, in Peru. The nearest listed city is Yauri, 61 km away.

CuscoWanchaqSantiagoSan MiguelJuliacaAguas Calientes

Topography around Sicuani

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sicuani has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 719 m around an average of 3,677 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,475 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,682 m.

The land around Sicuani is covered by grassland (54%) within 3 km, grassland (91%) within 16 km, and grassland (90%) within 80 km.

3 km
719 m
16 km
1,475 m
80 km
3,682 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewaterwetland
Nearby: Yauri 61 km · Ayaviri 97 km · Cusco 115 km · Wanchaq 115 km · Santiago 116 km · San Miguel 179 km · Juliaca 180 km · Aguas Calientes 187 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 Sicuani (-14.2694°, -71.2261°, elevation 3,551 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).