Climate averages 1991–2020

Pasto weather
in January.

A mild, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 17.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 10.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 177 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Pasto: daytime highs average 17.6°C and nights cool to about 10.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 177 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ipiales (59 km away). In January its highs average 16.0°C, 1.6°C cooler than Pasto, with 220 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Pasto ranks 45th of 46 for the warmest January highs and 38th of 46 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 46 cities is 26.5°C; Pasto is 8.9°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 177 mm to 184 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

Pasto climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Pasto, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	17.6°C10.9°C	10.9°C	177	22.4	12.112 h
February	17.9°C11.0°C	11.0°C	184	22.6	12.112 h
March	17.9°C11.1°C	11.1°C	235	27.5	12.112 h
April	17.9°C11.3°C	11.3°C	231	27.5	12.112 h
May	17.8°C11.3°C	11.3°C	181	27.3	12.212 h
June	17.6°C11.0°C	11.0°C	114	23.7	12.212 h
July	17.6°C10.5°C	10.5°C	92	22.2	12.212 h
August	18.5°C10.2°C	10.2°C	63	16.6	12.212 h
September	18.9°C10.3°C	10.3°C	99	19.9	12.112 h
October	18.1°C10.6°C	10.6°C	195	25.2	12.112 h
November	17.3°C10.8°C	10.8°C	244	26.5	12.112 h
December	17.4°C10.9°C	10.9°C	221	25.7	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Pasto

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