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Paita climate by month
What the weather is like
Paita has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 28° and nights 23°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 17°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 116 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (35 mm, 6 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 21% in August to 54% in March.
The sea reaches about 23° 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, Paita is 2.9° warmer on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · March
- Coldest nights
- 17° · August
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- August · 21% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 23° · February
- Longest day
- 12 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 50 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° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° |
| Average low | 22° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 20° | 19° | 18° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 18° | 20° |
| Precipitation | 23 mm | 19 mm | 35 mm | 18 mm | 8 mm | 4 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 4 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.3 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2 |
| Cloud cover | 44% | 51% | 54% | 38% | 27% | 23% | 22% | 21% | 30% | 36% | 38% | 36% |
| Sea temperature | 22° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 20° | 19° | 19° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 19° | 20° |
| Daylight | 12h 23 | 12h 16 | 12h 08 | 12h 00 | 11h 53 | 11h 50 | 11h 51 | 11h 57 | 12h 05 | 12h 13 | 12h 21 | 12h 25 |
| Month score | 85 | 66 | 63 | 80 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 96 | 95 | 93 |