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
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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, 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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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