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Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Best time to visit Nazca
Peru · Latin America
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Nazca
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- JanJNazca in January: sweet spot
- FebFNazca in February: sweet spot
- MarMNazca in March: good
- AprANazca in April: sweet spot
- MayMNazca in May: sweet spot
- JunJNazca in June: good, busy
- JulJNazca in July: good
- AugANazca in August: sweet spot
- SepSNazca in September: sweet spot
- OctONazca in October: sweet spot
- NovNNazca in November: good, busy
- DecDNazca in December: sweet spot
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
Dry all year: 6 or fewer rainy days in every month.
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Things to do in Nazca
- Nazca Lines Large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru
- Chauchilla Cemetery Cultural heritage site in Peru
- Cahuachi Archaeological site
- Cantalloc Aqueducts Archaeological site in Peru
- Pernil Alto Archaeological site in Peru
Tours and tickets in Nazca
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 31° | 2d | 67% | 10.6h | sweet spot | 31C max, 2 rainy days |
| Feb | 31° | 3d | 67% | 10.2h | sweet spot | 31C max, 3 rainy days |
| Mar | 32° | 1d | 62% | 11.0h | good | 32C max, 1 rainy day |
| Apr | 30° | 0d | 64% | 11.2h | sweet spot | 30C max, 0 rainy days |
| May | 27° | 0d | 70% | 11.0h | sweet spot | 27C max, 0 rainy days |
| Jun | 24° | 0d | 74% | 10.6h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Jul | 24° | 0d | 72% | 10.8h | good | 24C max, 0 rainy days |
| Aug | 25° | 0d | 70% | 11.3h | sweet spot | 25C max, 0 rainy days |
| Sep | 26° | 0d | 68% | 11.8h | sweet spot | 26C max, 0 rainy days |
| Oct | 28° | 0d | 65% | 11.9h | sweet spot | 28C max, 0 rainy days |
| Nov | 29° | 0d | 65% | 12.0h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Dec | 30° | 0d | 65% | 11.4h | sweet spot | 30C max, 0 rainy days |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Nazca town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
Nazca's March days now average 32.1°C, 5.3°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 8 of 12 months are clearly warmer.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 26.8° | 26.6° | 26.7° | 26.8° | 25.8° | 24.5° | 24.0° | 24.9° | 26.0° | 26.9° | 27.3° | 27.4° |
| 2017–26 | 30.8° | 31.1° | 32.1° | 30.2° | 27.0° | 24.0° | 24.2° | 24.7° | 26.2° | 28.2° | 29.0° | 30.1° |
| Change | +4.0° | +4.5° | +5.3° | +3.4° | +1.2° | -0.5° | +0.1° | -0.1° | +0.2° | +1.3° | +1.7° | +2.7° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
Fly into Lima (LIM), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Lima.
The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.
How far Nazca is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Lima
- from Santiago
- from Bogota
- from Buenos Aires
- from Sao Paulo
- from Rio de Janeiro
- from Miami
- from Fort Lauderdale
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Nazca, flying or not.
Before you go
Type A and B and C plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Nuevo sol. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Peru: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Cards work in chains and upmarket hotels, restaurants and shops, sometimes with a surcharge, which must be shown on a sign; carry soles elsewhere. Many locals pay by Yape QR code.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — Not usual in basic restaurants, but 10% for good service is polite.
Getting around Nazca
- Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. Street taxis have no meters: agree the fare before you get in, or book through an app or a taxi company.
Getting around in Nazca is easy. You can walk almost anywhere and a taxi inside of town really costs around S/3 although every taxi driver might try to charge you more. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Nazca, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — police 105 · ambulance 106 or 116 · fire 116.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (24)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/peru/getting-help
- travel.gc.ca/destinations/peru
- uber.com/global/en/cities/lima
- web.didiglobal.com/pe
- indrive.com/es-pe/city-rides
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabify
- peru.travel/en/useful-data/transport
- peru.travel/en/useful-data
- gob.pe/institucion/atu/noticias/1420574-atu-moderniza-el-transporte-publico-con-la-tarjeta-interoperable-recaudo-digital-y-nuevas-herramientas-tecnologicas
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- es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitano_(Lima)
- es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnea_1_del_Metro_de_Lima
- soax.com/research/most-popular-messaging-apps
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- apple.com/ios/feature-availability
- perurail.com/faq
- perurail.com/purchase-terms-and-conditions
- perurail.com/destinations/machu-picchu
- incarail.com/en/machu-picchu/how-to-get-to-machu-picchu
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
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Nazca in pictures
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What Nazca is like
Nazca or Nasca is a town in Peru's Southern Coast region. It is most famous for the Nazca Lines, a collection of long lines, geometrical figures, and giant drawings in the desert sand that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- Museo Arqueologico Antonini, Av de la Cultura 606 (follow Jr Bolognese about 1 km east). Informative museum about the surrounding archeological sites. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- Sandboarding Cerro Blanco. Sandboard down the second highest dune in the world. You can do about 7 runs down, 30-50 metres each, and a few very long ones (last one is more than 700 metres long). More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- There are frequent collectivos (small buses) to and from Ica. They leave when full, it takes 2-3 hr and cost S/13 (soles). More on Wikivoyage
- Staying safe
- There are various travel agents in town though having an office in Nazca does not guarantee trustworthiness. Be very careful and never buy from people that address you on the street or wait at the bus stop. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Nazca, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around Nazca
Also in Peru
- Arequipa best Apr, Sep, Oct
- Cusco best May, Jun, Sep
- Lake Titicaca best Jun, Aug, Sep
- Lima best Feb, Apr, Oct
- Machu Picchu best May, Jun, Aug
- Trujillo best Jun, Sep, Oct
Nearby
- La Paz Bolivia · 752 km
- Salar de Uyuni Bolivia · 1,064 km
- Potosí Bolivia · 1,110 km
- Sucre Bolivia · 1,131 km
Kind of place
Nazca is in Peru, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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