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Cuenca weather

Azuay · 636,996 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 12:40

Raining now Air: Fair Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Sun, Wed

16°

Drizzle

Feels like 16°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

10 km/h

Humidity

68 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

89 %

Storm

Rise 05:53 Set 18:06 Day 12 h 12 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Rain showers

17°16°

Feels like 17°

Wind ↑ ESE 10 km/h

Humidity 68 %

💧 3.3 mm

Evening

Rain showers

13°12°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ E 4 km/h

Humidity 89 %

💧 2.2 mm

13:00

17°

1.8mm

ESE 6

16:00

16°

1.5mm

ESE 10

Cuenca forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.1° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Cuenca climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 12 °C in July to 15 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 5 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,570 mm of rain — more than 78% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 57 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 17 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	15 °C	7 °C	157 mm
Feb	15 °C	8 °C	184 mm
Mar	15 °C	7 °C	195 mm
Apr	15 °C	7 °C	158 mm
May	14 °C	7 °C	107 mm
Jun	13 °C	6 °C	80 mm
Jul	12 °C	6 °C	74 mm
Aug	13 °C	5 °C	54 mm
Sep	14 °C	6 °C	64 mm
Oct	15 °C	7 °C	130 mm
Nov	15 °C	7 °C	182 mm
Dec	15 °C	7 °C	184 mm
Whole year	14 °C	7 °C	1,570 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.90° S, 79.00° 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 Cuenca: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.512µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Cuenca

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Cuenca, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Cuenca yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Cuenca

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 19:35 Set 06:58

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/Guayaquil); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Cuenca

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

Cuenca weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Cuenca, Azuay: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 17 °C and around 4 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.

Other big cities nearby

Eloy Alfaro 124 km 25°

Guayaquil 124 km 26°

Ambato 188 km 14°

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