Climate averages 1991–2020
Barranquilla weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Barranquilla: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 26.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 156 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 29 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soledad (6 km away). In August its highs average 29.8°C, about as warm as Barranquilla, with 156 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Barranquilla ranks 16th of 46 for the warmest August highs and joint 25th of 46 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Barranquilla is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 156 mm to 228 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Barranquilla climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.0°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 3.2 | 0.9 | 11.612 h |
| February | 28.2°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 1.8 | 0.5 | 11.812 h |
| March | 28.6°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 8.0 | 2.2 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.1°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 46 | 8.8 | 12.412 h |
| May | 29.2°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 166 | 20.8 | 12.613 h |
| June | 29.3°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 140 | 19.0 | 12.813 h |
| July | 29.1°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 103 | 14.6 | 12.713 h |
| August, selected | 29.3°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 156 | 20.4 | 12.512 h |
| September | 29.3°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 228 | 25.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.8°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 277 | 26.9 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.4°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 165 | 20.3 | 11.612 h |
| December | 28.1°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 38 | 5.9 | 11.511 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
August in nearby cities
- Soledad in AugustColombia · 6 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 25.9°C · 156 mm rain
- Sabanalarga in AugustColombia · 41 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.6°C · 197 mm rain
- Ciénaga in AugustColombia · 58 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.9°C · 225 mm rain
- Santa Marta in AugustColombia · 71 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 25.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Cartagena in AugustColombia · 100 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.1°C · 186 mm rain
- Valledupar in AugustColombia · 176 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 147 mm rain
- Magangué in AugustColombia · 192 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 231 mm rain
- Sincelejo in AugustColombia · 197 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.9°C · 252 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 Barranquilla) is explained once on the Barranquilla year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Soledad lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.