El Trompillo Airport

SLET · Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Statistics El Trompillo Airport 2019-2023

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Viru Viru International Airport (SLVR) between 2019 and 2023.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 53.9 60 71 48 58 44
February 59.3 76 71 58 42 65
March 60.6 65 73 68 75 52
April 65.3 64 71 65 82 66
May 59.5 46 76 78 78 53
June 63.3 79 74 58 48 63
July 71.6 75 72 77 67 62
August 68.3 86 69 53 81 55
September 56.1 71 56 60 50 50
October 58.2 47 71 61 66 60
November 59.1 39 84 61 64 61
December 58.6 82 68 59 47
Average 61.1 63.7 72.0 62.2 64.1 56.2

15th best VFR conditions of Bolivia

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met:
  • Visibility: 8 km or more
  • Ceiling: 3,000 ft or more
Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 86.8 91 95 78 87 85
February 91.2 93 92 92 90 92
March 91.2 91 90 92 98 88
April 91.7 94 95 92 97 93
May 90.6 86 98 99 96 91
June 94.5 95 98 95 86 93
July 97.0 99 94 98 96 94
August 93.3 99 91 84 97 95
September 88.3 98 87 91 84 82
October 91.0 78 96 96 87 95
November 90.9 78 97 92 86 95
December 89.3 95 89 87 90
Average 91.3 90.7 93.8 91.2 90.7 90.9

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met:
  • Visibility: 5 km or more
  • Ceiling: 1,000 ft or more
Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 31.2 31 34 29 32 31
February 30.8 30 32 31 30 31
March 30.7 31 30 30 33 30
April 29.2 29 30 28 31 29
May 26.5 26 27 26 27 27
June 25.3 27 26 24 25 27
July 26.8 27 29 27 25 25
August 28.9 31 28 30 28 30
September 31.5 33 29 32 31 33
October 32.2 34 31 33 34 32
November 32.3 35 34 31 33 33
December 31.0 32 32 32 30
Average 29.7 30.2 30.0 29.3 30.2 29.6

12th highest temperature of Bolivia

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 21.7 21 23 21 23 22
February 21.6 20 23 22 23 23
March 20.8 22 20 21 23 21
April 20.3 20 21 21 20 20
May 17.9 18 17 18 17 18
June 16.0 17 15 16 18 17
July 16.8 19 19 16 17 16
August 17.5 20 17 19 16 17
September 20.1 22 19 22 20 20
October 21.2 23 20 21 23 21
November 21.5 24 20 21 22 22
December 22.0 22 23 22 22
Average 19.7 20.5 19.5 19.9 20.1 19.8

12th lowest temperature of Bolivia

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 6.9 8 1 15 6 8
February 6.6 9 2 5 10 6
March 5.6 7 7 4 3 5
April 3.9 4 1 5 1 5
May 5.5 8 3 1 3 7
June 4.5 4 1 4 9 6
July 2.1 1 5 2 2 5
August 2.8 0 6 1 4 0
September 1.4 0 2 1 1 2
October 3.1 3 2 3 1 6
November 3.3 1 1 7 0 6
December 7.6 3 9 7 7
Average 4.4 4.1 2.6 4.8 3.8 5.3

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 10.3 10 10 11 10 11
February 9.8 11 10 8 11 10
March 9.3 10 10 8 7 11
April 9.5 9 11 9 10 10
May 10.2 9 10 11 10 11
June 11.3 11 11 10 12 12
July 12.1 12 14 11 11 12
August 12.5 12 12 13 10 13
September 12.4 14 12 13 11 12
October 11.7 13 10 11 12 12
November 10.5 15 11 10 9 10
December 10.0 11 8 11 10
Average 10.8 11.4 11.0 10.2 10.3 11.1

12th highest wind speed of Bolivia

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
January 339° 340° 337° 333° 343°
February 330° 332° 321° 323° 322°
March 333° 345° 312° 328° 323°
April 177° 336° 308° 246° 310°
May 337° 245° 321° 314° 319°
June 339° 286° 217° 338° 333°
July 334° 339° 330° 328° 277°
August 333° 306° 284° 310° 287°
September 334° 214° 332° 312° 287°
October 336° 324° 330° 319° 326°
November 336° 228° 330° 331° 334°
December 316° 265° 329° 333°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.