A South American city sees more days of rain than not, with locals battered by almost 260 days of downpours on average.
Budget Direct recently put together a map showing the countries that see the most rain days (when at least 1mm of rain or snow occurs) based on figures from Climate Data.
It used the data to collect the number of rainy days for 64,429 cities globally. The dataset was compiled in June 2021.
Buenaventura, a coastal seaport city located in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, ranked top, with an estimated 258 rain days per year on average, as per the outlet.
Located on the country’s rain-soaked Pacific coast, conditions there have enabled a dense tropical rainforest to flourish, as per Uno.
Buenaventura is Colombia’s main Pacific port, handling much of the nation’s coffee and various other important products.
Colombia Travel describes the city is “a stronghold of Afro-Colombian culture, with a rich culinary and musical tradition that extends well beyond the city’s borders”.
Another Colombian city, Manizales, wasn’t far behind with 257 rain days, as per Budget Direct.
The country is the wettest in the world according to World Bank data from 2020, which estimated at the time that Colombia saw an average of 3,240 millimetres of rain in a year.
Colombia is divided into six regions, sharing borders with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador whilst also being exposed to the Caribbean Sea coast and the Pacific coastline, where Buenaventura is located.
Nevertheless, the outlet says it still doesn’t “recommend straying too far from the beaten path” as some of these areas “remain dangerous because of their links with neo-paramilitary and drug-trafficking groups, particularly along the borders with Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador“.
The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office currently advises against all travel to parts of the country.
You can find the latest official guidance here.
