The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Riohacha has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 30 years of daily weather observations (1995–present), from the Almirante Padilla 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 Riohacha
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
105°FJul 19, 2003
The three most extreme on record
1105°FJul 19, 2003
2103°FJun 6, 2013
3103°FJul 17, 2014
❄️Coldest night
28°FFeb 12, 2008
The three most extreme on record
128°FFeb 12, 2008
239°FFeb 11, 2008
341°FJan 10, 2008
🌧️Most rain in one day
7.48 inJun 1, 2019
The three most extreme on record
17.48 inJun 1, 2019
27.36 inJun 24, 2018
37.09 inJun 3, 2006
In plain terms
Across the record, Riohacha has reached as high as 105°F and as low as 28°F. A single day has delivered over 7 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 & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 23 years of daily observations at Simon Bolivar, a weather station, about 152 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.