Weather in Barranquilla in July

A hard month. July is a hard month in Barranquilla, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 18 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

July ranks 7 of 12 in Barranquilla: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 18 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 82% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 4.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 34.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 108 mm — roughly 90% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. July rainfall has ranged from 16 mm to 483 mm across the twenty years measured — a 467 mm spread around an average of 120 mm. The average is real but almost no individual July looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 13.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.9 °C in June, 30.8 here, 31 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: August brings 5 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in July

Barranquilla sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.7 hours in July, against a range of just 1.3 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28.4 °C in July — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.2 °C in October and bottoms out at 26.4 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Barranquilla versus nearby

If Barranquilla is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cartagena is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 5 days more rain. Medellín is a better bet in July — 5.9 °C cooler, 6 days more rain.

So: July is a compromise. January is 38 points better and is what Barranquilla is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Barranquilla

See all twelve months in Barranquilla, or where else to go in July.