Best time to visit Arequipa

Arequipa has no real season. The best month scores 100 and the worst 83, a spread of just 17 points, so the honest answer to "when should I go" is whenever the flights are cheapest. The good window runs March to December — 10 months within ten points of the best.

November is the warmest month at 26.7 °C and July the coolest at 24.3 °C — a 2.4 °C spread across the year. It never reaches 30 °C in an average year, which takes heat off the list of reasons to avoid any particular month.

There is a real wet season here. January to February carry the rain — up to 10 wet days in a month — while May to November drop as low as 0. That 10-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Arequipa, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight barely moves: about 13.1 hours whatever the month, which removes one variable from the decision entirely.

The three strongest months are May, June, July. The one to think twice about is February. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Arequipa month by month