Climate averages 1991–2020

Cereté weather
in January.

A hot, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 27 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Cereté: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 27 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Montería (18 km away). In January its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Cereté, with 38 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Cereté ranks 7th of 46 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 46 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Cereté is 4.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 32.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 27 mm to 29 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

Cereté climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cereté, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	31.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	27	7.0	11.712 h
February	32.9°C24.4°C	24.4°C	29	6.9	11.812 h
March	32.8°C24.7°C	24.7°C	61	13.7	12.112 h
April	31.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	162	24.0	12.312 h
May	30.2°C23.9°C	23.9°C	262	29.1	12.513 h
June	30.2°C23.8°C	23.8°C	246	27.8	12.613 h
July	30.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	240	27.7	12.613 h
August	30.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	236	28.5	12.412 h
September	29.9°C23.5°C	23.5°C	233	28.9	12.212 h
October	29.7°C23.3°C	23.3°C	229	29.5	11.912 h
November	29.4°C23.2°C	23.2°C	179	26.6	11.712 h
December	29.8°C23.3°C	23.3°C	89	18.3	11.612 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 Cereté

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