Best time to visit Peru

Peru does not have a single best season. Its 5 destinations peak across 4 different months, which means an itinerary that moves around the country will be in the right season for some of it and the wrong one for the rest — worth building the route around.

Averaged across every destination listed, Peru is at its best in August, scoring 77 out of 100, with July close behind at 77. March is the weakest month nationally at 63. The workable window is wide — 8 months sit within eight points of the best — so a trip covering several of these places has room to move.

Peru is not one climate. Trujillo averages 37 °C across the year against 17 °C in Cusco — a 19 °C gap wide enough that advice for one is close to useless for the other. Rain splits the country further: Cusco sees 125 wet days a year against 2 in Lima, which is a different kind of trip rather than a slightly damper one.