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Weather extremes
How extreme does Puerto Maldonado's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Puerto Maldonado has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Puerto Maldonado has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 14°F hotter than a normal January afternoon in Puerto Maldonado (typical high near 88°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 31°F colder than a normal July night in Puerto Maldonado (typical low near 65°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 78% of a typical January's rain in a single day (Puerto Maldonado averages roughly 12.4 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
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.
Puerto Maldonado's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — January's 102°F is about 14°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
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Padre Aldamiz, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.