Climate averages 1991–2020

Encarnación weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 152 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Encarnación: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 22.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 152 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Posadas (9 km away). In January its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Encarnación, with 133 mm of rain.

Among the 7 cities listed in Paraguay, Encarnación ranks 6th of 7 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 7 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 7 cities is 31.8°C; Encarnación is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 152 mm to 146 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

Encarnación climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Encarnación, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	31.0°C22.6°C	22.6°C	152	13.9	13.614 h
February	30.2°C22.1°C	22.1°C	146	13.8	13.013 h
March	29.1°C20.8°C	20.8°C	132	11.8	12.312 h
April	26.2°C18.0°C	18.0°C	159	10.1	11.511 h
May	22.2°C14.7°C	14.7°C	154	9.3	10.811 h
June	20.6°C13.3°C	13.3°C	131	8.9	10.410 h
July	20.1°C12.0°C	12.0°C	122	9.0	10.611 h
August	22.7°C13.3°C	13.3°C	89	7.7	11.211 h
September	24.5°C15.0°C	15.0°C	151	10.0	11.912 h
October	26.8°C17.7°C	17.7°C	219	12.7	12.713 h
November	28.4°C18.9°C	18.9°C	165	11.2	13.413 h
December	30.4°C21.4°C	21.4°C	174	12.9	13.814 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 Encarnación

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