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 Chota
Chota climate by month
Oceanic · CfbBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean14°day and night
Seasonal swing1°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,152 mm103 wet days a year
6.55° S, 78.65° WElevation 2,390 mUTC−5 · Peru Standard Time
When to goChota · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low18° / 10°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Chota has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is November, when afternoons average 19° and nights 9°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 1°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,152 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (177 mm, 17 wet days) and August the driest (30 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 39% in August to 69% in March.
Compared with Lima, the capital, Chota is 2.1° cooler on a November afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 19° · November
- Coldest nights
- 9° · July
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 39% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 30 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 45 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 | 18° | 18° | 18° | 18° | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 18° |
| Average low | 10° | 11° | 11° | 11° | 10° | 10° | 9° | 9° | 10° | 10° | 9° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 118 mm | 133 mm | 177 mm | 114 mm | 64 mm | 43 mm | 31 mm | 30 mm | 78 mm | 142 mm | 109 mm | 113 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.3 | 12.8 | 16.8 | 11.2 | 7 | 3.1 | 2 | 1.9 | 4.6 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 11.8 |
| Cloud cover | 62% | 67% | 69% | 58% | 47% | 43% | 41% | 39% | 46% | 53% | 56% | 58% |
| Daylight | 12h 28 | 12h 19 | 12h 09 | 11h 58 | 11h 49 | 11h 45 | 11h 46 | 11h 54 | 12h 04 | 12h 15 | 12h 25 | 12h 30 |
| Month score | 60 | 54 | 51 | 61 | 74 | 82 | 84 | 88 | 80 | 68 | 65 | 61 |
ivMonth by month
Chota in every month
January60
18° / 10°
118 mm · 11.3 wet days
February54
18° / 11°
133 mm · 12.8 wet days
March51
18° / 11°
177 mm · 16.8 wet days
April61
18° / 11°
114 mm · 11.2 wet days
May74
18° / 10°
64 mm · 7 wet days
June82
17° / 10°
43 mm · 3.1 wet days
July84
17° / 9°
31 mm · 2 wet days
August88
17° / 9°
30 mm · 1.9 wet days
September80
18° / 10°
78 mm · 4.6 wet days
October68
18° / 10°
142 mm · 9.7 wet days
November65
19° / 9°
109 mm · 10.4 wet days
December61
18° / 10°
113 mm · 11.8 wet days