Laredo climate by month
What the weather is like
Laredo has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 26° and nights 21°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 15°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 120 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (32 mm, 11 wet days) and August the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 20% in July to 63% in March.
The sea reaches about 22° in February. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Lima, the capital, Laredo is 1.4° warmer on a February afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 26° · February
- Coldest nights
- 15° · August
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 20% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · February
- Longest day
- 12 h 35 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 39 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 25° |
| Average low | 20° | 21° | 21° | 19° | 17° | 16° | 15° | 15° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° |
| Precipitation | 18 mm | 27 mm | 32 mm | 10 mm | 4 mm | 2 mm | 2 mm | 2 mm | 3 mm | 5 mm | 5 mm | 10 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.5 | 6.3 | 10.6 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 6.2 |
| Cloud cover | 55% | 61% | 63% | 46% | 28% | 22% | 20% | 21% | 32% | 41% | 46% | 49% |
| Sea temperature | 21° | 22° | 22° | 20° | 19° | 19° | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 19° |
| Daylight | 12h 32 | 12h 22 | 12h 09 | 11h 56 | 11h 45 | 11h 39 | 11h 42 | 11h 51 | 12h 03 | 12h 17 | 12h 29 | 12h 35 |
| Month score | 70 | 66 | 55 | 79 | 94 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 85 | 81 | 77 |