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Bucaramanga weather

Santander Department · 581,130 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:25

Light rain
18°
Light rain
Feels like 18°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
94 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
76 %
Storm
Moderate
Rise 05:39 Set 17:32 Day 11 h 53 min UV 8 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Light rain
Light rain
21°18°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ WNW 6 km/h
Humidity 66 %
💧 5.3 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
Rain
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ ENE 5 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 12.5 mm
⚡ storm
16:00
Light rain
18°
3.9mm
WNW 6

Bucaramanga forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
12°15°18°20°23°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed19°14°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 16° · normal 15.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 15° · normal 15.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 21° · min 15° · normal 15.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 20° · min 14° · normal 15.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 21° · min 14° · normal 15.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 14° · normal 15.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 19° · min 14° · normal 15.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu12°18°23°21°14°017
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bucaramanga climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 6,840 mm of rain — more than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 23 °C in June to 24 °C in February, and the coolest nights (January) average 15 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 32 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 42 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan23 °C15 °C269 mm
Feb24 °C16 °C288 mm
Mar24 °C16 °C396 mm
Apr23 °C16 °C556 mm
May23 °C17 °C742 mm
Jun23 °C16 °C776 mm
Jul23 °C16 °C718 mm
Aug23 °C16 °C580 mm
Sep23 °C16 °C620 mm
Oct23 °C16 °C673 mm
Nov23 °C16 °C698 mm
Dec23 °C16 °C527 mm
Whole year23 °C16 °C6,840 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 7.12° N, 73.12° 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 Bucaramanga: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.513µg/m³
PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bucaramanga

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bucaramanga, 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 Bucaramanga yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bucaramanga

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:49 Set 06:56
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/Bogota); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bucaramanga

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

Bucaramanga weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bucaramanga, Santander Department: 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 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 21 °C and around 5 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