Cusco
Cusco / Cuzco
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About
Cusco or Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range, and the Huatanay and Urubamba rivers. It is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Cusco Province and Cusco Department. It has historically been one of the largest cultural, economic and political centers of Peru.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cusco, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Cusco
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
17° / 1°
UV Very high
Sat
Partly cloudy
18° / 4°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
19° / 5°
UV Very high
Mon
Drizzle
18° / 6°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
19° / 4°
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
19° / 4°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
20° / -3°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.5h
05:59 – 17:28local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Cusco
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) at 5 km.
Getting around Cusco
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
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- 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 →
CC BY-SA 4.0, 燃灯.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.