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Cusco weather by month

Cusco runs from about 11°C in July to 13°C in January, with November the wettest month at 298 mm.

warmest month

January

13°C

coolest month

July

11°C

wettest month

November

298 mm

worst air month

September

10 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Cusco
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January13°C183 mm314 h5
February13°C193 mm270 h5
March13°C139 mm296 h5
April12°C68 mm308 h7
May13°C18 mm317 h7
June12°C11 mm305 h7
July11°C3 mm337 h7
August12°C12 mm347 h8
September13°C40 mm323 h10
October13°C91 mm331 h6
November13°C298 mm277 h6
December12°C190 mm287 h6

About 3,712 hours of sun a year. Roughly 124 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.