Climate averages 1991–2020
Barranquilla weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Barranquilla: daytime highs average 28.8°C and nights cool to about 25.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 277 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes October a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soledad (6 km away). In October its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Barranquilla, with 277 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Barranquilla ranks joint 16th of 46 for the warmest October highs and joint 31st of 46 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 46 cities is 25.8°C; Barranquilla is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 277 mm to 165 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Soledad in OctoberColombia · 6 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 277 mm rain
- Sabanalarga in OctoberColombia · 41 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.9°C · 277 mm rain
- Ciénaga in OctoberColombia · 58 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 394 mm rain
- Santa Marta in OctoberColombia · 71 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 24.8°C · 199 mm rain
- Cartagena in OctoberColombia · 100 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.4°C · 265 mm rain
- Valledupar in OctoberColombia · 176 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 22.3°C · 315 mm rain
- Magangué in OctoberColombia · 192 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 255 mm rain
- Sincelejo in OctoberColombia · 197 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.4°C · 249 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.