How extreme does Popayán's weather get?

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

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Guillermo Leon Valencia station 2 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 Popayán has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

104°F Jul 20, 1993

The three most extreme on record

1 104°F Jul 20, 1993

2 90°F Mar 12, 1994

3 89°F Jan 10, 1993

❄️ Coldest night

37°F Oct 23, 1999

The three most extreme on record

1 37°F Oct 23, 1999

2 44°F Dec 5, 1996

3 46°F Jul 10, 1999

🌧️ Most rain in one day

3.90 in Mar 14, 1993

The three most extreme on record

1 3.90 in Mar 14, 1993

2 2.44 in Jan 7, 1993

3 2.32 in Apr 4, 2000

In plain terms

Across the record, Popayán has reached as high as 104°F and as low as 37°F. A single day has delivered over 4 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 12 years of daily observations at Cali/alfonso Bonill, a weather station, about 126 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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