Trujillo
City in Peru: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Trujillo Peru Collage: Laslamedas40, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Trujillo is a city in Peru, in La Libertad. About 1.1 million people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Peru in our atlas.
It lies at 8.12° S, 79.03° W, about 31 m (102 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Lima time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Trujillo. Green dots: other major cities of Peru. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Trujillo has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 25°C (77°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 11°C (52°F). Around 177 mm (7 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Mar.
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 PeruNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Chimbote · 117 km
- Chiclayo · 175 km
- Piura · 372 km
- Callao · 484 km
- Lima · 488 km
- Pucallpa · 493 km
- Huancayo · 607 km
- Iquitos · 799 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3691175 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q214173 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Trujillo Peru Collage: Laslamedas40, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chan Chan, 2023 (32): Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ausgrabungsstätte Huaca de la Luna 44: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Huaca Sol lou: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- El estadio Trujillano fue remodelado en el 2004 con una capacidad actual de 25 000 personas: Famidoc, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- HuacaDelDragon: Veronique Debord, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Freedom Monument, Trujillo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- HuacaEsmeralda: Bruno Girin, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Plazuela El Recreo - Panorámica: Enrique Jara, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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