Commentary: The porch is pleasant and briefly uncontested.
Latest reading9.0°C04:30 local · 25 min agoReports about every 30 minutes · 46 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far16.0°/9.0°High at 19:00 local · low at 04:30 localRange 7.0°C · from 18 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high29.9°C23 December 1994. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1963 to 2025All-time record low−7.0°C28 May 1976. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1963 to 2025
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
Jan
27.8°
Sat 27 Jan 1968
0.0°
Sat 3 Jan 1976
Feb
26.7°
Fri 3 Feb 1995
0.0°
Sat 3 Feb 1990
Mar
25.3°
Sat 26 Mar 2016
0.0°
Mon 11 Mar 1974
Apr
26.9°
Tue 4 Apr 1995
−2.0°
Sat 19 Apr 1975
May
27.0°
On this day · Saturday 7 November
Record high
25.4°C
Mon 7 Nov 1994
Record low
3.0°C
Thu 7 Nov 1974
Average high
22.0°C
all years on record
1
Cuzco/Astete Arpt has dropped below freezing on 1114 nights since 1963. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1963.
2
Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 58.5°C colder than Cuzco/Astete Arpt. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now.
3
The coldest night Cuzco/Astete Arpt has ever recorded, −7.0°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Today’s high 16.0°C against 25.4°C in 1994. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
29.9°C
Date
Friday, 23 December 1994
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Cuzco/Astete Arpt, Peru
Position
13.54°S 71.94°W · 3249 m
The highest in available records since 1963. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1963 to 2025.
All-time record low
−7.0°C
Date
Friday, 28 May 1976
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Cuzco/Astete Arpt, Peru
Position
13.54°S 71.94°W · 3249 m
The lowest in available records since 1963. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1963 to 2025.
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,500 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Cuzco/Astete Arpt is
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13.54°S 71.94°W
Cuzco/Astete Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
Its widest single day so far swung 18.0°C between low and high.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
27.0°C
Mon 12 Oct 2026 at 13:30 local
Lowest
0.0°C
Thu 1 Oct 2026 at 06:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Cuzco/Astete Arpt since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Cuzco/Astete Arpt (SPZO) is a METAR weather station in Peru, 3,249 m above sea level, about 3 km from Cusco.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 2,047 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
The most recent readings from Cuzco/Astete Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
low
9.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
9.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
10.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
10.0°C
0.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 6.0°C to 26.0°C, a spread of 20.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 46 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 2,792nd coldest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
Recent highlights
Reached 27.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 26.0°C on Sun 11 Oct 2026.
and the 1 days before it
Its low of 7.0°C was the lowest of the 55 stations we hold in Peru, on each of 2 days running.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Cuzco/Astete Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
26.0°C
6.0°C
15.4°C
7
293
October 2026
27.0°C
0.0°C
15.0°C
31
1,391
September 2026
26.0°C
2.0°C
13.7°C
8 of 9
363
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 27.0°C, lowest 0.0°C, mean 14.8°C. 47 days recorded from 2,047 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 46 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Cuzco/Astete Arpt, most recent first.
The warmest month on record here is December, when the highest reading has reached 29.9°C (85.8°F) on Friday, 23 December 1994.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Cuzco/Astete Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is May, when the lowest reading has fallen to −7.0°C (19.4°F) on Friday, 28 May 1976.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Cuzco/Astete Arpt?
29.9°C (85.8°F) on Friday, 23 December 1994. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1963. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuzco/Astete Arpt?
−7.0°C (19.4°F) on Friday, 28 May 1976. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1963.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Cuzco/Astete Arpt right now?
9.0°C (48.2°F), measured at 04:30 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure
Source
Type
Latest reading, today so far
NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)
Measured, station
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records
NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1963 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days, which hold the record shown above
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Cuzco/Astete Arpt that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
05
Inside the range of measured temperature
☀️ How 9.0°C compares
A typical December afternoon in Douglas.
Douglas, Isle of Man, typically reaches 9.0°C in December, averaged over every December day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
Colder right now than 148 of the 195 capital cities we can read.
It is colder here than in Douglas (10.0°C), San Marino (10.0°C) and Saint Peter Port (11.0°C) at this moment. Those are the coldest capitals still warmer than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Cuzco/Astete Arpt ranged from 6.0°C to 23.0°C, a spread of 17.0°C, from 46 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Cuzco/Astete Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
05:00
7.0°C
05:30
6.0°C
06:00
8.0°C
06:30
9.0°C
07:00
10.0°C
07:30
12.0°C
08:00
14.0°C
08:30
16.0°C
09:00
17.0°C
09:30
19.0°C
10:00
19.0°C
10:30
20.0°C
11:00
21.0°C
11:30
21.0°C
12:00
22.0°C
12:30
23.0°C
13:00
22.0°C
13:30
22.0°C
14:00
22.0°C
14:30
22.0°C
15:00
22.0°C
15:30
20.0°C
16:00
19.0°C
16:30
21.0°C
17:00
20.0°C
17:30
19.0°C
18:00
18.0°C
18:30
16.0°C
19:00
16.0°C
19:30
16.0°C
20:00
15.0°C
20:30
14.0°C
21:00
14.0°C
21:30
13.0°C
22:00
13.0°C
22:30
12.0°C
23:00
11.0°C
23:30
12.0°C
00:00
11.0°C
00:30
11.0°C
01:00
10.0°C
01:30
10.0°C
02:00
10.0°C
03:00
10.0°C
04:00
9.0°C
04:30
9.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
Not enough history to draw a trend for this station yet.
Sun 2 May 1976
−7.0°
Fri 28 May 1976
Jun
24.2°
Mon 6 Jun 1994
−4.5°
Fri 20 Jun 1986
Jul
24.2°
Sat 29 Jul 1995
−7.0°
Fri 13 Jul 1979
Aug
25.8°
Sun 3 Aug 2014
−6.0°
Sat 2 Aug 1975
Sep ·
26.0°
Thu 24 Sep 2026
−6.0°
Sun 11 Sep 1977
Oct
27.2°
Fri 23 Oct 1964
0.0°
Mon 14 Oct 1974
Nov
26.6°
Fri 20 Nov 2015
0.0°
Sun 24 Nov 1963
Dec
29.9°
Fri 23 Dec 1994
0.5°
Sun 11 Dec 1988
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily and our own observations, whichever is more extreme. The upper figure is the highest held here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined. A month marked with a dot is one this site recorded itself.
highest to lowest
Mean
15.4°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 293 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
27.0°C
Mon 12 Oct 2026
Lowest
6.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Range
21.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
15.0°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,335 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
27.0°C
Mon 12 Oct 2026
Lowest
0.0°C
Thu 1 Oct 2026
Range
27.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
14.8°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 2,047 readings. From our monthly totals.
Highs and lows for Sat 7 Nov 2026, against this station's own. 4 of the 6 filed nothing for this day.
Readings stored, count not recorded
Fewer readings than usual
Slightly fewer readings than usual
A full day of readings
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Is Cuzco/Astete Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 4,271st of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 223rd of 9,581. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Cuzco/Astete Arpt rank among the coldest places in Peru?
Right now it is the coldest of the 20 stations we track in Peru.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
06
Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
07
Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.