Lima Weather

Lima is in a valley surrounded by an extremely arid desert. In the summer, (Sept through May) the weather is beautiful, warm and sunny, with temperature between 18 C (64 F) to 29 C(84 F) sometimes with rains around January. Lima summer sunsets are well known for being colorful. As such, they have been labeled by the locals as "cielo de brujas" (Spanish for "sky of witches"), since the sky commonly turns into shades of orange, pink and red around 7 pm. During the winter, (June through Sept), Lima's weather is dramatically different and the city is normally overcast and rainy. The rain in the wintertime doesn't fall hard, but it gets everything wet. Temperature range is around 12 C⁰ (54⁰ F) to 19 °C (66 °F), which seems chillier when combined with the general dampness. The climate of Lima (as that of most of the Peruvian coast) gets severely disrupted during El Nino events. Water temperatures along the coast, which usually average around 17–19 °C (63–66 °F), get much warmer. Air temperatures rise accordingly. Cooler climate develops during La Niña years. The all-time record low in the metropolitan area is 8 °C (46 °F), measured during the winter of 1988.

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