Climate averages 1991–2020
Yacuiba weather
in December.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Yacuiba: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 20.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 215 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes December a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 27 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarija (121 km away). In December its highs average 22.9°C, 6.9°C cooler than Yacuiba, with 194 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Yacuiba ranks joint 1st of 14 for the warmest December highs and 11th of 14 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 14 cities is 22.5°C; Yacuiba is 7.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 215 mm to 239 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Yacuiba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.7°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 239 | 18.2 | 13.313 h |
| February | 28.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 226 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| March | 27.3°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 185 | 15.7 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.0°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 86 | 11.3 | 11.612 h |
| May | 22.2°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 40 | 7.8 | 11.111 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 18 | 4.8 | 10.811 h |
| July | 21.5°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 14 | 3.7 | 10.911 h |
| August | 25.2°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 10 | 2.7 | 11.411 h |
| September | 27.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 24 | 4.7 | 12.012 h |
| October | 29.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 86 | 10.8 | 12.613 h |
| November | 29.4°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 149 | 13.2 | 13.113 h |
| December, selected | 29.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 215 | 16.7 | 13.413 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
December in nearby cities
- Tarija in DecemberBolivia · 121 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.2°C · 194 mm rain
- San Ramón de la Nueva Orán in DecemberArgentina · 141 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 21.2°C · 193 mm rain
- Potosí in DecemberBolivia · 346 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.8°C · 133 mm rain
- Sucre in DecemberBolivia · 371 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 10.7°C · 152 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra in DecemberBolivia · 473 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 165 mm rain
- Montero in DecemberBolivia · 522 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 239 mm rain
- Calama in DecemberChile · 542 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 1.3 mm rain
- Sacaba in DecemberBolivia · 570 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 12.2°C · 173 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 Yacuiba) is explained once on the Yacuiba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.