Climate averages 1991–2020
Ipiales weather
in August.
A cool, wet month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a cool month in Ipiales: daytime highs average 14.7°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes August a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tulcán (9 km away). In August its highs average 15.6°C, 0.9°C warmer than Ipiales, with 94 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Ipiales ranks 46th of 46 for the warmest August highs and 17th of 46 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Ipiales is 11.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 15.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 94 mm to 109 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Ipiales climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 220 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| February | 16.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 207 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| March | 16.3°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 16.1°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 258 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| May | 15.7°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 200 | 29.8 | 12.212 h |
| June | 14.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 160 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| July | 14.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 147 | 27.0 | 12.212 h |
| August, selected | 14.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 94 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 15.7°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 109 | 21.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 16.3°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 230 | 27.4 | 12.112 h |
| November | 16.4°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 290 | 28.0 | 12.112 h |
| December | 16.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 269 | 29.1 | 12.112 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
- Tulcán in AugustEcuador · 9 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 8.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Pasto in AugustColombia · 59 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 10.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Ibarra in AugustEcuador · 76 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 10.0°C · 66 mm rain
- Tumaco in AugustColombia · 167 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 24.0°C · 210 mm rain
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados in AugustEcuador · 209 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Pitalito in AugustColombia · 210 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 13.2°C · 231 mm rain
- Popayán in AugustColombia · 213 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Esmeraldas in AugustEcuador · 224 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 22.9°C · 76 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 Ipiales) is explained once on the Ipiales year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tulcán lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.