Climate averages 1991–2020

Yacuiba weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 29.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 239 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Yacuiba: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarija (121 km away). In January its highs average 22.8°C, 7.0°C cooler than Yacuiba, with 220 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Yacuiba ranks 1st of 14 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 21.8°C; Yacuiba is 7.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 226 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

Yacuiba climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yacuiba, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	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	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Yacuiba

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