Climate averages 1991–2020

Florencia weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 86 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Florencia: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 18.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 02 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Pitalito (56 km away). In January its highs average 23.3°C, 4.9°C cooler than Florencia, with 209 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Florencia ranks 23rd of 46 for the warmest January highs and 28th of 46 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Florencia is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 86 mm to 126 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

Florencia climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Florencia, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.2°C18.7°C	18.7°C	86	14.0	12.012 h
February	28.3°C19.1°C	19.1°C	126	16.3	12.112 h
March	27.5°C18.9°C	18.9°C	193	24.1	12.112 h
April	26.6°C18.8°C	18.8°C	239	25.3	12.112 h
May	25.7°C18.6°C	18.6°C	244	25.8	12.212 h
June	24.8°C17.9°C	17.9°C	240	24.2	12.212 h
July	24.6°C17.6°C	17.6°C	212	22.9	12.212 h
August	26.1°C17.7°C	17.7°C	121	17.7	12.212 h
September	27.2°C18.0°C	18.0°C	108	18.1	12.112 h
October	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	164	21.5	12.112 h
November	26.8°C18.4°C	18.4°C	202	24.9	12.012 h
December	27.2°C18.4°C	18.4°C	143	21.2	12.012 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 Florencia

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