Climate averages 1991–2020

Caldas weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 24.0°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 12.5°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 197 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a warm month in Caldas: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 12.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 197 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Medellín (19 km away). In August its highs average 25.5°C, 1.6°C warmer than Caldas, with 180 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Caldas ranks 34th of 46 for the warmest August highs and joint 32nd of 46 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Caldas is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.8°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 197 mm to 253 mm.

The annual picture

August 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

Caldas climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Caldas, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	22.6°C13.0°C	13.0°C	111	18.0	11.812 h
February	23.2°C13.2°C	13.2°C	138	19.5	11.912 h
March	23.3°C13.5°C	13.5°C	214	25.6	12.112 h
April	22.6°C13.8°C	13.8°C	290	27.9	12.312 h
May	22.3°C13.8°C	13.8°C	347	28.8	12.412 h
June	22.8°C13.0°C	13.0°C	239	26.2	12.512 h
July	23.4°C12.4°C	12.4°C	198	24.4	12.412 h
August, selected	24.0°C12.5°C	12.5°C	197	23.6	12.312 h
September	23.2°C13.0°C	13.0°C	253	26.4	12.212 h
October	22.0°C13.5°C	13.5°C	302	28.4	12.012 h
November	21.2°C13.7°C	13.7°C	275	27.6	11.812 h
December	22.0°C13.4°C	13.4°C	169	21.9	11.812 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

Distance from Caldas

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