Paramaribo
Paramaribo
SurinameAw
📷 Rafaeljantz· CC BY-SA 4.0"Suriname kondre" | "Our country Suriname" (in Sranan Tongo)
About
Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 252,581 people as of the 2025 estimate, almost half of Suriname's population. The historic inner city of Paramaribo has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paramaribo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Paramaribo
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
Showers
30° / 24°
11.2 mm
UV High
Sat
Showers
30° / 24°
7.3 mm
UV High
Sun
Drizzle
30° / 24°
1.7 mm
UV High
Mon
Showers
29° / 24°
5.3 mm
UV High
Tue
Showers
29° / 23°
18.9 mm
UV High
Wed
Showers
28°
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
30° / 24°
Typical high / low
9 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.4h
06:25 – 18:48local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Paramaribo
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (PBM) at 46 km.
Getting around Paramaribo
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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.