Climate averages 1991–2020
Cali weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Cali: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 296 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes January a very wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yumbo (17 km away). In January its highs average 24.6°C, 1.0°C cooler than Cali, with 296 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Cali ranks 28th of 46 for the warmest January highs and joint 43rd of 46 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Cali is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 296 mm to 263 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Cali climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 25.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 296 | 24.5 | 11.912 h |
| February | 26.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 263 | 23.7 | 12.012 h |
| March | 26.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 302 | 25.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 26.0°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 296 | 23.5 | 12.212 h |
| May | 26.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 210 | 21.1 | 12.312 h |
| June | 26.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 125 | 15.4 | 12.312 h |
| July | 26.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 116 | 14.4 | 12.312 h |
| August | 26.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 143 | 15.4 | 12.212 h |
| September | 26.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 207 | 20.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 376 | 25.9 | 12.012 h |
| November | 24.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 463 | 27.1 | 12.012 h |
| December | 25.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 364 | 25.7 | 11.912 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
- Yumbo in JanuaryColombia · 17 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 18.3°C · 296 mm rain
- Popayán in JanuaryColombia · 111 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.5°C · 233 mm rain
- Neiva in JanuaryColombia · 149 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 21.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Pitalito in JanuaryColombia · 183 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 209 mm rain
- Ibagué in JanuaryColombia · 184 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 18.3°C · 108 mm rain
- Florencia in JanuaryColombia · 226 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 18.7°C · 86 mm rain
- Quibdó in JanuaryColombia · 252 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.8°C · 388 mm rain
- Fusagasugá in JanuaryColombia · 260 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 15.6°C · 114 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 Cali) is explained once on the Cali year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Yumbo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.