Climate averages 1991–2020
Tulcán weather
in February.
A mild, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a mild month in Tulcán: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 207 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes February a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ipiales (9 km away). In February its highs average 16.3°C, about as warm as Tulcán, with 207 mm of rain.
Among the 9 cities listed in Ecuador, Tulcán ranks 9th of 9 for the warmest February highs and 5th of 9 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 9 cities is 23.5°C; Tulcán is 6.9°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs stay level at 16.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 207 mm to 251 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Tulcán climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.3°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 220 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| February, selected | 16.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 207 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| March | 16.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 16.5°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 258 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| May | 16.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 200 | 29.8 | 12.212 h |
| June | 15.4°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 160 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| July | 15.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 147 | 27.0 | 12.212 h |
| August | 15.6°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 94 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 16.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 109 | 21.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 16.8°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 230 | 27.4 | 12.112 h |
| November | 16.7°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 290 | 28.0 | 12.112 h |
| December | 16.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°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
February in nearby cities
- Ipiales in FebruaryColombia · 9 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 9.4°C · 207 mm rain
- Pasto in FebruaryColombia · 66 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 11.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Ibarra in FebruaryEcuador · 69 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 11.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Tumaco in FebruaryColombia · 162 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 330 mm rain
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados in FebruaryEcuador · 201 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 19.9°C · 407 mm rain
- Esmeraldas in FebruaryEcuador · 216 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 23.6°C · 244 mm rain
- Pitalito in FebruaryColombia · 218 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.1°C · 237 mm rain
- Popayán in FebruaryColombia · 218 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.7°C · 233 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 Tulcán) is explained once on the Tulcán year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ipiales lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.