Sucre weather by month

The best time to visit Sucre is May, July and September — 90/100 in September, 21°C and 8 rainy days. The best season is spring, September to November (89/100 on average).

The worst month is March at 79/100 — nice, soaked, clean air. See March →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Bolivia →

Sucre🇧🇴 Bolivia · Altiplano & Lake Titicaca · City90
  1. 80Jan
  2. 80Feb
  3. 79Mar
  4. 86Apr
  5. 89May
  6. 88Jun
  7. 89Jul
  8. 89Aug
  9. 90Sep
  10. 89Oct
  11. 88Nov
  12. 81Dec

Best season: September to November (89/100 on average) · worst March (79/100)

Days
21°C
Nights
9°C
Wet days
8
Sun
10.5 h
Humidity
60%
Daylight
12 h
Sucre, Bolivia
Photo: Augusto Calle · Pexels

Sucre, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Sucre is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan80A20°C24 d11 hBusy1
Feb80A19°C22 d10 hBusy1
Mar79B18°C22 d9 hPeak2
Apr86A19°C13 d10 hBusy1
May89A19°C5 d10 hBusy2
Jun88A19°C3 d10 hShoulder1
Jul89A20°C3 d10 hBusy1
Aug89A20°C5 d10 hBusy2
Sep90S21°C8 d11 hBusy2
Oct89A21°C14 d11 hShoulder1
Nov88A22°C14 d11 hBusy1
Dec81A20°C21 d10 hBusy1

What's on in Sucre through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

February
  • Carnival1 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)Holiday
March
  • Semana Santa20 Mar – 25 Apr (usually)Holiday
May
  • Revolucion de Chuquisaca25 MayHoliday
  • Dry months1 May – 15 Oct (usually)Season
August
  • Bolivian independence day6 AugHoliday
September
  • Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe5–15 Sep (usually)Festival
November
  • Todos Santos1–2 NovHoliday
December
  • Christmas in Sucre1 Dec – 7 Jan (usually)Festival

Everything on in Sucre through the year →

Crowds in Sucre in September

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

BusyFiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Traveller notes on Sucre

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Forum posters describe March as still within Bolivia's rainy season, though January and February typically see more rain than March, with showers generally arriving as heavy afternoon bursts lasting a few hours rather than an all-day soak. Posters flag that unpaved roads can turn genuinely difficult with landslide and flooding risk during the wettest stretches, though city destinations like Sucre remain straightforward to visit regardless. Posters describe Sucre's own climate as relatively temperate compared to Bolivia's more extreme regions, with warm days and cool, not frigid, nights - a real point in its favor versus the Altiplano's colder, higher cities. Posters generally rate March as genuinely rainy but entirely manageable for a Sucre city visit, the mild climate here softening the wet-season inconvenience compared to elsewhere in Bolivia.
Tripadvisor community · March · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters describe the July-September window as Bolivia's winter but with reliably clear, beautiful blue skies, and Sucre specifically gets called an 'awesome' place to be during this stretch. Posters consistently note Sucre runs warmer and more comfortable than higher-altitude Bolivian cities like La Paz and Potosi, with one poster calling it a genuine 'Goldilocks' climate - milder than the cold altiplano, without the jungle heat and humidity found elsewhere in the country. September specifically marks the shift toward Bolivia's broader spring travel season (September-November), which posters name as the best overall window for the country given the combination of good sunshine and minimal rain even out at the salt flats and desert areas further from Sucre itself.
Tripadvisor community · September · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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