Climate averages 1991–2020

Apartadó weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 75 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Apartadó: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 43 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Chigorodó (25 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Apartadó, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Apartadó ranks 16th of 46 for the warmest January highs and 26th of 46 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Apartadó is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 61 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

Apartadó climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Apartadó, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.5°C23.9°C	23.9°C	75	19.8	11.712 h
February	30.1°C24.2°C	24.2°C	61	14.8	11.912 h
March	30.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	97	18.7	12.112 h
April	29.8°C24.2°C	24.2°C	174	25.5	12.312 h
May	29.4°C24.2°C	24.2°C	258	28.6	12.512 h
June	29.3°C24.0°C	24.0°C	245	27.8	12.613 h
July	29.4°C23.8°C	23.8°C	291	29.2	12.513 h
August	29.5°C23.9°C	23.9°C	253	29.2	12.412 h
September	29.4°C23.8°C	23.8°C	199	27.4	12.212 h
October	29.1°C23.7°C	23.7°C	177	26.4	12.012 h
November	28.8°C23.6°C	23.6°C	179	24.3	11.812 h
December	29.1°C23.7°C	23.7°C	137	25.0	11.712 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 Apartadó

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