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Salta · 520,683 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:57

Light rain
15°
Light rain
Feels like 15°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
80 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:35 Set 19:34 Day 12 h 59 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Light rain
Light rain
17°15°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ ENE 7 km/h
Gusts 17 km/h
Humidity 61 %
💧 1.7 mm
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
14°12°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ ENE 5 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 3.2 mm
15:00
Light rain
15°
1.5mm
ENE 4
18:00
Light rain
14°
1.1mm
ENE 5

Salta forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
8°14°19°25°30°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed21°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 17° · min 11° · normal 15.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 22° · min 10° · normal 15.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 24° · min 12° · normal 15.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 28° · min 13° · normal 15.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 27° · min 15° · normal 15.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 16° · normal 15.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 21° · min 16° · normal 15.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu9°19°29°28°10°07
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Salta climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 2,020 mm of rain — more than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 4 °C.

Day and night differ most in August: 19 °C in the afternoon against 6 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan24 °C16 °C297 mm
Feb23 °C15 °C280 mm
Mar22 °C15 °C295 mm
Apr20 °C12 °C192 mm
May18 °C8 °C119 mm
Jun16 °C6 °C59 mm
Jul16 °C4 °C43 mm
Aug19 °C6 °C47 mm
Sep20 °C8 °C70 mm
Oct22 °C11 °C149 mm
Nov23 °C13 °C199 mm
Dec24 °C15 °C272 mm
Whole year20 °C11 °C2,020 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 24.81° S, 65.42° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Salta: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM108µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Salta

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Salta, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Salta yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Salta

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 17:31 Set 03:10
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Argentina/Salta); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Salta

Curious about the weather in Salta on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Salta weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Salta, Salta: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 17 °C and around 3 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations