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Santa Marta weather

Magdalena Department · 499,192 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:14

Rain showers
29°
Rain showers
Feels like 42°C
Wind
14 km/h
Gusts
18 km/h
Humidity
78 %
Pressure
1009 hPa
Clouds
5 %
Storm
Low
Rise 05:47 Set 17:33 Day 11 h 45 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
29°
Feels like 42°
Wind ↑ NE 22 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 0.3 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
29°27°
Feels like 42°
Wind ↑ ENE 21 km/h
Gusts 28 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
16:00
Clear sky
29°
0.1mm
NE 22

Santa Marta forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
23°25°27°29°31°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°25°Thu 29 Oct: max 29° · min 28° · normal 26.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 29° · min 26° · normal 26.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 28° · min 26° · normal 26.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 25° · normal 26.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 25° · normal 26.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu24°28°31°29°25°09
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Santa Marta climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 25 °C in February to 27 °C in June, and the coolest nights (January) average 21 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,410 mm of rain — more than 93% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 47 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 28 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan25 °C21 °C33 mm
Feb25 °C21 °C36 mm
Mar25 °C22 °C64 mm
Apr26 °C22 °C128 mm
May26 °C23 °C316 mm
Jun27 °C23 °C294 mm
Jul26 °C23 °C246 mm
Aug26 °C23 °C275 mm
Sep27 °C23 °C329 mm
Oct26 °C23 °C359 mm
Nov26 °C23 °C235 mm
Dec26 °C22 °C99 mm
Whole year26 °C22 °C2,410 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.24° N, 74.19° 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 Santa Marta: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM108µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Santa Marta

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

Moon over Santa Marta

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:44 Set 07:10
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 Santa Marta

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

Santa Marta weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Santa Marta, Magdalena 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 29 °C (feels like 42 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 28 °C to 29 °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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