Piura weather by month & the best time to visit

🇵🇪 Peru · city break · hot desert climate

The best time to visit Piura is June — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 95/100), with July and August close behind. Piura averages about 2,749 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 32°C / 90°F and roughly 2 mm of rain in June.

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Sun hours / year

2,749

Sunniest month

June

Peak score

95/100

Rain / year

138 mm

Midday UV at peak

12 (extreme)

Population

630k

Elevation

31 m

When is the best time to visit Piura?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Piura is June, then July and August. The dullest month is March (60/100, 52 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Piura?

Piura gets a lot of sun: around 2,749 hours a year. June (95/100) is noticeably better than March (60). It ranks #8 of 25 destinations in Peru for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,286 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 72% of the year's 138 mm falls in the three months around March.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Tumbes Peru · 186 km · best in Aug · 2,148 h sun/yr
• Chiclayo Peru · 196 km · best in Jun · 2,389 h sun/yr
• Cajamarca Peru · 319 km · best in Jun · 2,412 h sun/yr
• Guayaquil Ecuador · 349 km · best in May · 1,184 h sun/yr
• Trujillo Peru · 361 km · best in Jun · 2,249 h sun/yr
• Tarapoto Peru · 491 km · best in Jul · 1,810 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Talara Peru · 99 km · 2,785 h sun/yr · best in May
• Catamayo Ecuador · 193 km · 1,367 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• Jaén Peru · 208 km · 1,469 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• Cuenca Ecuador · 315 km · 1,236 h sun/yr · best in Oct

Head-to-head

How Piura compares month by month: Piura vs Guayaquil · Piura vs Chiclayo · Piura vs Cajamarca · Piura vs Tumbes · all comparisons