Tarapoto
Tarapoto
PeruAw
📷 Danilopem· CC BY-SA 3.0La ciudad de las palmeras | The city of palms
About
Tarapoto, founded in 1782 as Santa Cruz de los Motilones de Tarapoto, is a commercial hub town in the San Martín Province of the Department of San Martín of northern Peru. It is an hour by plane from Lima, in the high jungle plateau to the east.
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The next week in Tarapoto
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
Drizzle
30° / 20°
UV High
Sat
Rain
30° / 21°
4.6 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Drizzle
30° / 21°
1.4 mm
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
29° / 21°
7.3 mm
UV High
Tue
Rain
26° / 21°
15.0 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
29° / 21°
1.9 mm
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
34° / 17°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.8h
06:06 – 17:56local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Tarapoto
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Cadete FAP Guillermo Del Castillo Paredes Airport (TPP) at 3 km.
Getting around Tarapoto
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, Municipalidad Provincial de San Martín derivative work: Master Uegly.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.