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La Paz weather

La Paz Department · 2,004,652 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:32

Clear sky
15°
Clear sky
Feels like 15°C
Wind
18 km/h
Gusts
23 km/h
Humidity
24 %
Pressure
1007 hPa
Clouds
1 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:56 Set 18:36 Day 12 h 40 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ WNW 25 km/h
Gusts 40 km/h
Humidity 24 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
8°6°
Feels like 8°
Wind ↑ NE 13 km/h
Gusts 23 km/h
Humidity 60 %
17:00
Clear sky
15°
W 18

La Paz forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
1°6°11°15°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed18°6°Thu 29 Oct: max 15° · min 6° · normal 8.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 15° · min 3° · normal 8.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 16° · min 3° · normal 8.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 4° · normal 8.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 4° · normal 8.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 5° · normal 8.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 18° · min 6° · normal 8.4°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu1°10°19°18°3°05
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

La Paz climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 31 towns of 20,000+ people in Bolivia, La Paz has the lowest mean temperature.

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 15 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average −1 °C.

Nights typically freeze from June to August, the coldest averaging −1 °C in July.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan14 °C5 °C173 mm
Feb14 °C5 °C155 mm
Mar14 °C4 °C128 mm
Apr14 °C3 °C76 mm
May14 °C1 °C41 mm
Jun13 °C−1 °C31 mm
Jul13 °C−2 °C38 mm
Aug14 °C−1 °C52 mm
Sep14 °C1 °C73 mm
Oct15 °C3 °C98 mm
Nov15 °C4 °C96 mm
Dec14 °C5 °C152 mm
Whole year14 °C2 °C1,110 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 16.50° S, 68.15° 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 La Paz: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around La Paz

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over La Paz

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:21 Set 04:42
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/La_Paz); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in La Paz

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

La Paz weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in La Paz, La Paz Department: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 18 km/h.

Expected range today: 6 °C to 15 °C and a dry sky; 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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