July Precipitation Averages for South American Cities

The tables below give July averages for rainfall at major cities throughout South America. Each place has a total for how much precipitation it usually gets this month and most have data on the number of days with wet weather.

Included in the group are South America's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The cities are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Asunción to Cochabamba or Córdoba to Montevideo or Natal to Vitíria.

The amounts of rain are averages of historical climate measurements made over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Average July precipitation
Days City Inches Milli­metres
4 Asunción, Paraguay 1.6 39
17 Barquisimeto, Venezuela 2.6 67
5 Barranquilla, Colombia 1.7 44
15 Belém, Brazil 6.1 156
2 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 0.6 15
16 Bogotá, Colombia 1.7 42
1 Brasília, Brazil 0.4 11
18 Bucaramanga, Colombia 4.4 112
Buenos Aires, Argentina 2.6 66
10 Cali, Colombia 2.5 63
4 Campinas, Brazil 2.0 51
19 Caracas, Venezuela 4.7 118
9 Cartagena, Colombia 4.6 117
16 Cayenne, French Guiana 6.1 155
1 Cochabamba, Bolivia 0.1 2
July rainfall averages
Days City Inches Milli­metres
Córdoba, Argentina 0.5 13
6 Curitiba, Brazil 3.9 99
10 Fortaleza, Brazil 3.7 95
21 Georgetown, Guyana 10.6 268
1 Goiânia, Brazil 0.3 7
3 Guayaquil, Ecuador 0.6 16
21 Joao Pessoa, Brazil 13.6 346
2 La Paz - El Alto, Bolivia 0.2 6
Lima, Peru 0.0 0
23 Maceió, Brazil 10.8 274
8 Manaus, Brazil 3.4 85
6 Maracaibo, Venezuela 1.0 27
17 Maracay, Venezuela 5.6 143
17 Medellín, Colombia 5.2 133
Mendoza, Argentina 0.3 8
10 Montevideo, Uruguay 3.4 86
Average amount of rain in July
Days City Inches Milli­metres
17 Natal, Brazil 7.8 197
Paramaribo, Suriname 9.4 238
9 Porto Alegre, Brazil 4.7 119
7 Quito, Ecuador 0.8 22
22 Recife, Brazil 15.3 388
4 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1.6 42
Rosario, Argentina 1.4 37
20 Salvador, Brazil 6.9 175
6 Santa Cruz, Bolivia 2.3 58
6 Santiago, Chile 3.4 87
10 Sao Luís, Brazil 5.2 131
4 São Paulo, Brazil 1.7 44
1 Sucre, Bolivia 0.1 2
1 Teresina, Brazil 0.4 11
9 Vitíria, Brazil 3.4 85
Reference

The precipitation data are provided by national meteorological agencies.

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