Climate averages 1991–2020

Sucre weather
in January.

A mild, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 18.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 10.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 205 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Sucre: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 10.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 205 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 08 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Potosí (80 km away). In January its highs average 13.3°C, 5.3°C cooler than Sucre, with 171 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Sucre ranks 10th of 14 for the warmest January highs and 8th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 21.8°C; Sucre is 3.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 18.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 205 mm to 180 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Sucre climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sucre, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	18.7°C10.5°C	10.5°C	205	24.7	13.113 h
February	18.3°C10.5°C	10.5°C	180	22.4	12.713 h
March	18.1°C10.1°C	10.1°C	138	20.9	12.212 h
April	18.1°C9.0°C	9.0°C	59	11.8	11.712 h
May	18.3°C6.5°C	6.5°C	19	5.0	11.211 h
June	18.4°C4.5°C	4.5°C	14	3.5	11.011 h
July	18.3°C4.2°C	4.2°C	14	3.4	11.111 h
August	19.3°C5.6°C	5.6°C	26	5.7	11.511 h
September	20.1°C7.6°C	7.6°C	43	9.0	12.012 h
October	20.5°C9.3°C	9.3°C	68	14.1	12.513 h
November	20.2°C10.2°C	10.2°C	92	15.9	13.013 h
December	19.6°C10.7°C	10.7°C	152	21.4	13.313 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Sucre

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 Sucre) is explained once on the Sucre year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.