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Cartagena weather

Bolívar · 914,552 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:03

Raining now Air: Good High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

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

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 43°

Wind ↑ NE 24 km/h

Gusts 33 km/h

Humidity 86 %

💧 2.7 mm

⚡ storm

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)

Hourly detail

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)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	31 °C	25 °C	12 mm	28 °C
Feb	32 °C	25 °C	10 mm	27 °C
Mar	31 °C	26 °C	25 mm	27 °C
Apr	31 °C	26 °C	83 mm	27 °C
May	30 °C	26 °C	185 mm	29 °C
Jun	30 °C	26 °C	179 mm	29 °C
Jul	30 °C	26 °C	156 mm	29 °C
Aug	30 °C	26 °C	185 mm	29 °C
Sep	30 °C	26 °C	208 mm	29 °C
Oct	29 °C	25 °C	264 mm	29 °C
Nov	29 °C	25 °C	204 mm	29 °C
Dec	30 °C	25 °C	68 mm	28 °C
Whole year	30 °C	26 °C	1,580 mm	28 °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 1.1 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.

Other big cities nearby

Soledad 98 km 31°

Barranquilla 100 km 31°

Santa Marta 170 km 29°

Monteria 188 km 29°

Valledupar 245 km 33°

Cartagena weather data for developers

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