Climate averages 1991–2020

Colón weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.1°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 24.4°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 334 mm 31 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Colón: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 334 mm of rain on roughly 31 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 37 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Arraiján (55 km away). In July its highs average 27.9°C, about as warm as Colón, with 280 mm of rain.

Among the 6 cities listed in Panama, Colón ranks 5th of 6 for the warmest July highs and 5th of 6 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 6 cities is 28.5°C; Colón is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 334 mm to 325 mm.

The annual picture

July 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

Colón climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Colón, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	63	15.4	11.612 h
February	27.6°C24.8°C	24.8°C	36	9.9	11.812 h
March	27.9°C24.9°C	24.9°C	41	11.6	12.112 h
April	28.3°C25.1°C	25.1°C	127	20.1	12.312 h
May	28.4°C24.7°C	24.7°C	284	29.4	12.513 h
June	28.5°C24.5°C	24.5°C	289	29.4	12.713 h
July, selected	28.1°C24.4°C	24.4°C	334	30.5	12.613 h
August	28.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	325	30.6	12.412 h
September	28.3°C24.2°C	24.2°C	300	29.5	12.212 h
October	28.1°C24.1°C	24.1°C	320	30.1	11.912 h
November	27.5°C24.0°C	24.0°C	341	29.0	11.712 h
December	27.4°C24.6°C	24.6°C	190	25.5	11.612 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Colón

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