Cochabamba
City in Bolivia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Cochabamba is a city in Bolivia. About 841,276 people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Bolivia in our atlas.
It lies at 17.38° S, 66.16° W, about 2,537 m (8,323 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/La_Paz time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Cochabamba. Green dots: other major cities of Bolivia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Cochabamba has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). The warmest month is usually Nov, with average highs near 23°C (74°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 1°C (34°F). Around 498 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in BoliviaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Quillacollo · 13 km
- Sacaba · 13 km
- Oruro · 119 km
- Sucre · 206 km
- La Paz · 232 km
- Potosí · 248 km
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra · 319 km
- Tarija · 485 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3919968 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q21803616 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Cristo de la Concordia, Cbba: Parallelepiped09, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Vista Aerea de la Inauguracion de los Juegos Suramericanos Cochabamba 2018: JH PLATA Filmmaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Brazo izquierdo del Cristo Redentor, Laguna Alalay y la Ciudad de Cochabamba Bolivia: Lucas from Campinas, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
