Weather in Cali in July

A good month. July is a solid month to be in Cali. Highs average 30.6 °C, lows 20.5 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

July ranks 2 of 12 in Cali. Only August scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 10 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 30.6 °C days and 20.5 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 21 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 34 °C and the coldest night fell to 17.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 32 mm — roughly 76% of the month's rain in one day.

July is moderately variable: 15 mm in the driest year against 128 mm in the wettest, around an average of 42 mm. Roughly two Julys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.1 °C in June, 30.6 here, 31.2 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

Cali sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.3 hours in July, against a range of just 0.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 10.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 758 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, February is the trade worth considering — 8 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

July in Cali versus nearby

If Cali is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bogotá is close enough to be a coin toss — 12.1 °C cooler, 11 days more rain. Medellín is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.7 °C cooler, 14 days more rain.

So: July is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind August, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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