11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 82 %
Evening
Rain
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ SE 8 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 5.9 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ ESE 6 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Evening
Rain showers
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ ESE 10 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 3.2 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ ESE 4 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Evening
Rain showers
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ ESE 10 km/h
Humidity 93 %
💧 3.2 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ ESE 6 km/h
Humidity 77 %
Popayan forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Popayan climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 4,530 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 20 °C in November to 21 °C in September, and the coolest nights (July) average 12 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 305 mm and 452 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
21 °C
12 °C
305 mm
Feb
21 °C
13 °C
315 mm
Mar
21 °C
13 °C
416 mm
Apr
21 °C
13 °C
452 mm
May
21 °C
13 °C
434 mm
Jun
21 °C
12 °C
396 mm
Jul
21 °C
12 °C
393 mm
Aug
21 °C
12 °C
354 mm
Sep
21 °C
12 °C
371 mm
Oct
21 °C
12 °C
379 mm
Nov
20 °C
13 °C
363 mm
Dec
20 °C
13 °C
349 mm
Whole year
21 °C
12 °C
4,530 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.44° N, 76.61° 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 Popayan: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.513µg/m³
PM1013µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Popayan
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Popayan, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Popayan yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Popayan
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:14 Set 07:00
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Bogota); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Popayan
Curious about the weather in Popayan on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Popayan weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Popayan, Cauca Department: 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 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 19 °C and around 7 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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