Colombia weather is classified as equatorial, a factor attributed to the country’s placing near the equator. Weather in Colombia is typified by its humid patterns with sultry wet conditions. The elevation of the country from sea level to approximately 3,050m, contributes to the vast temperature and precipitation fluctuations. Temperatures at sea level tend to be quite hot, where as higher elevations call for cooler weather in Colombia.
Temperatures vary between 17°C during the day and 5°C at night during the winter season, fluctuating between 38°C and 24°C in the hot zone during summer.
Colombia weather around the coastal cities and Leticia is characterized by daily temperatures of 23-32 C, with evening temperatures dropping slightly to around 17-27.
The cold zone composes about 6 percent of the total area, including some of the most thickly populated flat terrains of the Colombian Andes; this zone supports about a quarter of the country's total population.
Evenings are cool but never cold; the daily sunshine feels warm on the skin, but rarely reaches hot conditions. Rain and afternoon clouds are common. Colombia weather averages from three to five hours a day of sunshine throughout the year. In the lowlands, and the drier basins, sunshine is escalated to roughly around six to seven hours a day.
Colombia weather also experiences tropical conditions. This is because the Colombia has coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which force the humid winds to pass over the country. Caribbean coastlands are not that wet, December to March calls for a drier, hotter, humid period. For the tropical coastland, that is situated in the east and nearer to the Venezuelan border annual precipitation is quite low.
Weather in Colombian varies according to the country’s three main zones: the hot zone, whose elevation is below 900m, the temperate zone of elevations between 900 and 1980m, and the cold zone with elevations of 1,980m to approximately 3,500m. The higher border of the cold zone marks the tree line and the approximate limit of human occupancy. The treeless areas neighboring to the cold zone and expanding to approximately 4,500 meters are high, desolate regions; in these areas is where you find permanent snow.
Colombia weather is at its best during the months between December-March, with rainfall being at its absolute lowest levels then. May-July and October-December are the months when precipitation is at its highest, reaching levels between 2,500 to 5,000 mm throughout the country. Precipitation is moderate to profound in most parts of the country. The heaviest of rainfall occurs in the hot zone in the pacific lowlands; this is roughly on a daily basis where rain forests prevail. Precipitation surpasses 760 cm annually in the majority of the Pacific lowlands, making it one of the wettest regions in the world.
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