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Cartagena weather

Bolívar · 914,552 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:12

Rain showers
29°
Rain showers
Feels like 42°C
Wind
17 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
81 %
Pressure
1007 hPa
Clouds
27 %
Storm
Moderate
Rise 05:52 Set 17:39 Day 11 h 46 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
32°29°
Feels like 45°
Wind ↑ N 17 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 1.2 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
29°28°
Feels like 43°
Wind ↑ NE 24 km/h
Gusts 33 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 2.7 mm
⚡ storm
16:00
Rain showers
29°
0.6mm
N 17

Cartagena forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
24°27°29°32°34°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°26°Thu 29 Oct: max 32° · min 29° · normal 26.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 26.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 26.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 26° · normal 26.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 26° · normal 26.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu24°29°33°32°26°09
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Cartagena climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in November to 31 °C in February, and the coolest nights (January) average 25 °C.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in September (29 °C) and the coolest in March (27 °C).

A normal year brings roughly 1,580 mm of rain — more than 78% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfallSea
Jan31 °C25 °C12 mm28 °C
Feb32 °C25 °C10 mm27 °C
Mar31 °C26 °C25 mm27 °C
Apr31 °C26 °C83 mm27 °C
May30 °C26 °C185 mm29 °C
Jun30 °C26 °C179 mm29 °C
Jul30 °C26 °C156 mm29 °C
Aug30 °C26 °C185 mm29 °C
Sep30 °C26 °C208 mm29 °C
Oct29 °C25 °C264 mm29 °C
Nov29 °C25 °C204 mm29 °C
Dec30 °C25 °C68 mm28 °C
Whole year30 °C26 °C1,580 mm28 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.40° N, 75.49° 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 Cartagena: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM106µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Cartagena

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

Moon over Cartagena

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:51 Set 07:13
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.

Sea and tides near Cartagena

Tide station used: Cartagena · 4 km away

🌊 Sea surface
30.2 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Smooth
waves 1.0 m
Period
5 s
Swell
0.2 m
WedWed 28/10
Low tide 22:44 0.2 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide 14:02 0.6 m
Low tide 23:09 0.2 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide 05:49 0.2 m
Low tide 06:45 0.2 m
High tide 15:15 0.6 m
Low tide 23:38 0.2 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide 05:55 0.3 m
Low tide 07:59 0.3 m
High tide 16:38 0.6 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Cartagena

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

Cartagena weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Cartagena, Bolívar: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 29 °C (feels like 42 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 29 °C to 32 °C and around 1 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, plus the tide times for Cartagena.

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