Best time to visit Trujillo

Peru · Latin America

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Trujillo

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Go in Apr–Dec — these months score within a whisker of each other; 21C max, 0 rainy days. Feb is the next best.

Dry all year: 6 or fewer rainy days in every month.

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Things to do in Trujillo

Chan Chan Archaeological site in Peru
La Huaca del Sol Protected area
La Huaca de la Luna Adobe ruin built by the Moche people that is part of Huacas de Moche archaeological site.
Plaza de Armas of Trujillo Square in Trujillo, Peru
Caballo Muerto Cultural heritage site in Peru
Trujillo Cathedral Cultural heritage site in Peru
Huaca "El Dragon", Complejo Arqueológico Chan-Chan Impressive set of ruins of an ancient Chimor mud city, and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Tours and tickets in Trujillo

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Trujillo (Peru)), 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	24°	2d	84%	10.7h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Feb	25°	2d	82%	10.6h	good	25C max, 2 rainy days
Mar	25°	3d	82%	10.1h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Apr	24°	1d	83%	10.8h	sweet spot	24C max, 1 rainy day
May	22°	0d	82%	10.9h	sweet spot	22C max, 0 rainy days
Jun	22°	0d	80%	10.6h	sweet spot	22C max, 0 rainy days
Jul	21°	0d	79%	10.5h	sweet spot	21C max, 0 rainy days
Aug	21°	0d	79%	10.6h	sweet spot	21C max, 0 rainy days
Sep	21°	0d	80%	10.8h	sweet spot	21C max, 0 rainy days
Oct	20°	2d	82%	11.0h	sweet spot	20C max, 2 rainy days
Nov	21°	0d	81%	11.2h	sweet spot	21C max, 0 rainy days
Dec	22°	2d	82%	10.9h	sweet spot	22C max, 2 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the Plaza de Armas, 9 km from the airport (TRU): 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

Busiest in January and March; quietest in September and October.

Then and now

No month in Trujillo is clearly warmer than in 1981–1990: the differences are inside the ordinary spread between one year and the next.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	26.0°	26.3°	26.5°	25.4°	24.5°	23.6°	23.0°	22.6°	22.8°	23.2°	23.9°	25.3°
2017–26	23.8°	25.4°	25.3°	23.7°	22.4°	21.5°	21.1°	20.6°	20.6°	20.1°	20.9°	22.3°
Change	-2.2°	-0.9°	-1.2°	-1.7°	-2.1°	-2.1°	-1.9°	-2.0°	-2.2°	-3.1°	-3.0°	-3.0°

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

How far Trujillo is depends on where you set off from — the months above do 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. 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 Trujillo

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.

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.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Trujillo in pictures

Cathedral of Trujillo, Peru 01 — i

Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trujillo catedral — i

Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trujillo Peru8 — i

morrissey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Around Trujillo

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Kind of place

Trujillo is in Peru, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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