Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Riberalta
Riberalta climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing2°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,839 mm180 wet days a year
11.01° S, 66.05° WElevation 145 mUTC−4 · Bolivia Time
When to goRiberalta · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low31° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Riberalta has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is September, when afternoons average 31° and nights 23°. May is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,839 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (292 mm, 25 wet days) and July the driest (15 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 20% in July to 68% in January.
Compared with Sucre, the capital, Riberalta is 11.1° warmer on a September afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · September
- Coldest nights
- 21° · July
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 20% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 29 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 30° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 30° |
| Average low | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 292 mm | 280 mm | 260 mm | 179 mm | 72 mm | 26 mm | 15 mm | 25 mm | 69 mm | 149 mm | 210 mm | 262 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 25.4 | 23.2 | 24.5 | 17.8 | 10.5 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 8.6 | 15.3 | 19.9 | 24.9 |
| Cloud cover | 68% | 68% | 66% | 58% | 42% | 29% | 20% | 22% | 35% | 52% | 64% | 67% |
| Daylight | 12h 42 | 12h 27 | 12h 10 | 11h 52 | 11h 37 | 11h 29 | 11h 32 | 11h 45 | 12h 02 | 12h 20 | 12h 37 | 12h 46 |
| Month score | 32 | 33 | 33 | 38 | 56 | 75 | 76 | 67 | 52 | 33 | 32 | 32 |
ivMonth by month
Riberalta in every month
January32
30° / 23°
292 mm · 25.4 wet days
February33
29° / 23°
280 mm · 23.2 wet days
March33
30° / 23°
260 mm · 24.5 wet days
April38
29° / 23°
179 mm · 17.8 wet days
May56
28° / 22°
72 mm · 10.5 wet days
June75
28° / 21°
26 mm · 4.4 wet days
July76
29° / 21°
15 mm · 2.5 wet days
August67
31° / 22°
25 mm · 3.2 wet days
September52
31° / 23°
69 mm · 8.6 wet days
October33
31° / 23°
149 mm · 15.3 wet days
November32
30° / 23°
210 mm · 19.9 wet days
December32
30° / 23°
262 mm · 24.9 wet days