Climate averages 1991–2020

Potosí weather
in February.

A cool, wet month: one of the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 13.3°C Daytime mean, February
Average low 4.8°C Night-time mean, February
Rainfall 148 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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February is a cool month in Potosí: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 148 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes February a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 45 min on an average February day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sucre (80 km away). In February its highs average 18.3°C, 5.1°C warmer than Potosí, with 180 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Potosí ranks 14th of 14 for the warmest February highs and 5th of 14 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 14 cities is 21.5°C; Potosí is 8.2°C cooler than that mean.

From February to March, average highs stay level at 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 148 mm to 108 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Potosí climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Potosí, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 13.3°C4.7°C4.7°C17125.813.213 h
February, selected 13.3°C4.8°C4.8°C14823.612.813 h
March 13.3°C4.0°C4.0°C10821.312.212 h
April 14.1°C1.9°C1.9°C359.511.712 h
May 14.3°C-1.5°C-1.5°C6.21.811.211 h
June 13.5°C-2.9°C-2.9°C2.20.511.011 h
July 13.3°C-3.2°C-3.2°C4.01.011.111 h
August 14.6°C-2.1°C-2.1°C102.611.411 h
September 15.7°C0.1°C0.1°C266.512.012 h
October 16.5°C2.4°C2.4°C5111.712.513 h
November 16.2°C3.9°C3.9°C7715.613.013 h
December 14.9°C4.8°C4.8°C13322.513.313 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

February in nearby cities

Distance from Potosí

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Potosí) is explained once on the Potosí year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.