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Iquitos weather

Loreto · 377,609 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:29

Rain showers
28°
Rain showers
Feels like 41°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
10 km/h
Humidity
84 %
Pressure
1010 hPa
Clouds
55 %
Storm
Low
Rise 05:29 Set 17:43 Day 12 h 14 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
28°27°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ NE 4 km/h
Gusts 10 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 2.9 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
25°23°
Feels like 36°
Wind ↑ NNW 2 km/h
Humidity 94 %
16:00
Partly cloudy
27°
NNW 4

Iquitos forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
20°24°28°32°36°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed33°23°Thu 29 Oct: max 28° · min 25° · normal 25.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 34° · min 22° · normal 25.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 34° · min 23° · normal 25.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 31° · min 23° · normal 25.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 25.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 25.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 25.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu21°28°35°34°22°042
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Iquitos climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 121 towns of 20,000+ people in Peru, Iquitos has the second highest yearly rainfall.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in July to 30 °C in October, and the coolest nights (July) average 22 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,860 mm of rain — more than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 160 mm and 311 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan30 °C24 °C259 mm
Feb30 °C24 °C242 mm
Mar30 °C24 °C312 mm
Apr30 °C24 °C302 mm
May29 °C23 °C279 mm
Jun29 °C23 °C227 mm
Jul29 °C22 °C174 mm
Aug30 °C22 °C160 mm
Sep30 °C23 °C186 mm
Oct30 °C23 °C207 mm
Nov30 °C24 °C241 mm
Dec30 °C24 °C271 mm
Whole year30 °C23 °C2,860 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.75° S, 73.25° 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 Iquitos: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.516µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Iquitos

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

Moon over Iquitos

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:13 Set 06:32
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 Iquitos

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

Iquitos weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Iquitos, Loreto: 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 28 °C (feels like 41 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 28 °C and around 6 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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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