Chimbote
Chimbote
PeruBWh
📷 Rodavía17· CC BY-SA 4.0|C|h|i|m|b|o|t|e| | ||| | |c|i|u|d|a|d| |p|e|s|q|u|e|r|a|,| |h|i|j|a| |d|e|l| |P|a|c|í|f|i|c|o|.| ||| |C|h|i|m|b|o|t|e| | ||| | |f|i|s|h|i|n|g| |c|i|t|y|,| |d|a|u|g|h|t|e|r| |o|f| |t|h|e| |P|a|c|i|f|i|c|.|
About
Chimbote; Quechua: Chimputi) is a city in northwestern Peru. It is the largest city in the Ancash Region and the tenth most populous in Peru. With a population of 425,367 in 2017, it is the capital of both Santa Province and Chimbote District. The city has an altitude of 4 meters.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chimbote, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Chimbote
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
27° / 21°
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
26° / 20°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
26° / 20°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
26° / 20°
UV High
Tue
Partly cloudy
26° / 19°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
26° / 18°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
JFMAMJJASOND
Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
25° / 15°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.7h
06:19 – 18:01local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Chimbote
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is FAP Lieutenant Jaime Andres de Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM) at 11 km.
Getting around Chimbote
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, User:Huhsunqu.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.