Climate averages 1991–2020
Cochabamba weather
in January.
A mild, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Cochabamba: daytime highs average 20.8°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 187 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 02 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Quillacollo (13 km away). In January its highs average 20.8°C, about as warm as Cochabamba, with 187 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Cochabamba ranks joint 7th of 14 for the warmest January highs and joint 6th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 21.8°C; Cochabamba is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 20.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 187 mm to 179 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Cochabamba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 20.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 187 | 23.2 | 13.013 h |
| February | 20.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 179 | 22.5 | 12.713 h |
| March | 20.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 124 | 18.6 | 12.212 h |
| April | 20.9°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 45 | 8.4 | 11.712 h |
| May | 21.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 12 | 2.8 | 11.311 h |
| June | 20.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 7.1 | 1.8 | 11.111 h |
| July | 20.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 11 | 2.0 | 11.211 h |
| August | 21.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 19 | 3.3 | 11.512 h |
| September | 21.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 23 | 5.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 22.4°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 40 | 9.5 | 12.512 h |
| November | 22.7°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 12.7 | 12.913 h |
| December | 21.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 132 | 19.9 | 13.113 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Quillacollo in JanuaryBolivia · 13 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 12.7°C · 187 mm rain
- Sacaba in JanuaryBolivia · 13 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 12.0°C · 230 mm rain
- Oruro in JanuaryBolivia · 119 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 143 mm rain
- Sucre in JanuaryBolivia · 207 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 10.5°C · 205 mm rain
- La Paz in JanuaryBolivia · 233 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.8°C · 132 mm rain
- Viacha in JanuaryBolivia · 242 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Potosí in JanuaryBolivia · 249 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 171 mm rain
- Montero in JanuaryBolivia · 309 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 232 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cochabamba) is explained once on the Cochabamba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Quillacollo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.