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Cusco weather

Cuzco Department · 428,450 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 11:49

Air: Good Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Sun

7°

Mainly clear

Feels like 7°C

Wind

1 km/h

Gusts

7 km/h

Humidity

79 %

Pressure

1024 hPa

Clouds

33 %

Storm

Rise 05:14 Set 17:48 Day 12 h 33 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Morning

Partly cloudy

12°7°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ NNW 9 km/h

Humidity 52 %

💧 0.2 mm

Afternoon

Rain showers

15°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ NW 13 km/h

Humidity 46 %

💧 0.3 mm

Evening

Rain showers

9°

Feels like 9°

Wind ↑ NNW 8 km/h

Humidity 66 %

💧 0.2 mm

13:00

15°

0.1mm

WNW 8

16:00

15°

0.2mm

NW 13

Cusco forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.3° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Cusco climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 14 °C in July to 16 °C in October, and the coolest nights (July) average 1 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 51% of the annual total; January by itself averages 242 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 1,330 mm of rain — more than 69% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (16 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	14 °C	6 °C	242 mm
Feb	14 °C	6 °C	225 mm
Mar	14 °C	5 °C	182 mm
Apr	14 °C	5 °C	89 mm
May	14 °C	3 °C	35 mm
Jun	14 °C	2 °C	20 mm
Jul	14 °C	2 °C	20 mm
Aug	15 °C	2 °C	31 mm
Sep	15 °C	4 °C	51 mm
Oct	16 °C	5 °C	99 mm
Nov	16 °C	6 °C	128 mm
Dec	14 °C	6 °C	208 mm
Whole year	15 °C	4 °C	1,330 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.53° S, 71.97° 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 Cusco: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.55µg/m³

PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Cusco

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

Moon over Cusco

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 19:30 Set 06:05

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

Look up a past day in Cusco

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

Cusco weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Cusco, Cuzco Department: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 7 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 1 km/h.

Expected range today: 6 °C to 15 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations