Valle del Cauca Department

Darien, Colombia Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Darien, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

The warmest month is August, with an average high of 24°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 14°C. A normal year brings 1518 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Cali/Alfonso Bonill, since 1961. The line marks today.

Normal daily high and low temperature at Darien through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.10203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Record high
  • Record low

Normals for Sep 26

Normal high
24°C
Normal low
15°C
Record high
36°Cin 1961
Record low
17°Cin 2012
Chance of a wet day
70%
Daylight
12 h 06 min

Month by month

Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.

MonthAvg highAvg lowRecord highRecord lowPrecipitationWet days
January23°C15°C36°C (1964)14°C (2017)96 mm18.6
February23°C15°C37°C (1973)14°C (1967)105 mm17.0
March23°C15°C38°C (1974)14°C (1993)133 mm21.7
April23°C15°C36°C (1961)13°C (1965)171 mm24.0
May23°C15°C35°C (1973)14°C (1966)158 mm24.8
June23°C14°C35°C (2015)15°C (1975)105 mm21.0
July24°C14°C37°C (1997)13°C (1961)93 mm18.6
August24°C14°C36°C (2015)13°C (1961)87 mm18.6
September24°C14°C36°C (2015)14°C (1976)117 mm21.0
October23°C15°C36°C (1962)14°C (1965)158 mm24.8
November22°C15°C36°C (1962)15°C (2016)171 mm24.0
December22°C15°C36°C (1963)15°C (1966)124 mm21.7
Year23°C15°C1518 mm256

Precipitation

Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

1518 mm in a normal year, most in April.

Chance of a wet day

The chance of at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis on each date at Darien, in percent.020406080100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Darien.

Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January15°C86%1%64%35%0%0%0%
February15°C85%1%54%44%0%0%0%
March16°C85%0%46%54%0%0%0%
April16°C86%0%32%68%0%0%0%
May16°C86%0%38%62%0%0%0%
June15°C83%1%78%20%0%0%0%
July14°C81%4%92%4%0%0%0%
August14°C80%6%88%6%0%0%0%
September15°C82%3%86%12%0%0%0%
October15°C86%1%68%31%0%0%0%
November16°C89%0%58%42%0%0%0%
December16°C88%0%58%42%0%0%0%

Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.

Clouds

Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.

The clearest month is January, with the sky 81 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is May, at 88 percent.

Wind

The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.

The windiest month is July, averaging 6.5 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 4, with 12 h 21 min of daylight; the shortest is Jan 1, with 11 h 54 min.

Hours of daylight at Darien through the year.0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Day length

Solar energy

Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.

Sunrise and sunset calendar

Month pages

The weather in Darien in each month, day by day.

What this means

A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.

A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1961. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.

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Sources

Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station CO000080259, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.