How extreme does Santa Cruz de la Sierra's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Santa Cruz de la Sierra has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1973–present), from the El Trompillo station 3 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Santa Cruz de la Sierra has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

104°F Nov 27, 2022

That is about 16°F hotter than a normal November afternoon in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (typical high near 88°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 104°F Nov 27, 2022recent

2 104°F Nov 29, 2022

3 104°F Oct 23, 2023

❄️ Coldest night

36°F Jul 18, 1975

About 23°F colder than a normal July night in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (typical low near 59°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 36°F Jul 18, 1975

2 36°F Jul 20, 1981

3 37°F Jul 13, 1975

🌧️ Most rain in one day

16.81 in Dec 23, 1976

More rain in a single day than Santa Cruz de la Sierra usually gets in the whole month of December (typical December total about 9.4 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 16.81 in Dec 23, 1976

2 11.81 in Mar 25, 1977

3 10.20 in Jul 15, 1973

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Santa Cruz de la Sierra's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — November's 104°F is about 16°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Santa Cruz de la Sierra's warmest days reach the high 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 50s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 104°F and as low as 36°F. A single day has delivered over 17 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 1 years of daily observations at EL Trompillo, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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