Paita
Paita
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📷 Galeria del Ministerio de Defensa del Perú· CC BY 2.0"Tierra del sol y del mar" | "Land of sun and sea"
About
Paita is a city in northwestern Peru. It is the capital of the Paita Province which is in the Piura Region. It is a leading seaport in the region. Paita is located 1,089 km northwest of the country's capital Lima, and 57 km northwest of the regional capital of Piura. Starting in 2014, the city has considered ideas for separating from the Piura Region, proclaiming itself as the "Miguel Grau Region".
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paita, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Paita
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
Clear
31° / 22°
UV Very high
Sat
Clear
30° / 22°
UV Very high
Sun
Drizzle
30° / 22°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
31° / 22°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
30° / 22°
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
30° / 22°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
28° / 17°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.9h
06:23 – 18:17local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Paita
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport (PIU) at 57 km.
Getting around Paita
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 →
CC BY-SA 3.0, Luisfelipe29.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.