Climate averages 1991–2020
Ipiales weather
in December.
A mild, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Ipiales: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 269 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes December a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 04 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tulcán (9 km away). In December its highs average 16.4°C, about as warm as Ipiales, with 269 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Ipiales ranks 46th of 46 for the warmest December highs and 41st of 46 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 46 cities is 25.7°C; Ipiales is 9.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 269 mm to 220 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Tulcán in DecemberEcuador · 9 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 9.8°C · 269 mm rain
- Pasto in DecemberColombia · 59 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 221 mm rain
- Ibarra in DecemberEcuador · 76 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 11.5°C · 165 mm rain
- Tumaco in DecemberColombia · 167 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 313 mm rain
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados in DecemberEcuador · 209 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 19.6°C · 235 mm rain
- Pitalito in DecemberColombia · 210 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.1°C · 227 mm rain
- Popayán in DecemberColombia · 213 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 14.6°C · 292 mm rain
- Esmeraldas in DecemberEcuador · 224 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 23.3°C · 138 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.