Piura Department · Peru
Piura travel guide
Piura is a city in Piura Department, Peru, home to about 473,000 people.
- Best months
- June to October
- Nearest airport
- PIU1 km · PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport
- Currency
- PENNuevo sol
- Time zone
- America/Lima
- Language
- Aymara, Quechua, Spanish
About
About Piura
Piura is a city in northwestern Peru, located north of the Sechura Desert along the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Piura
See
Some wonderful colonial architecture, gorgeous plazas and parks, a large market, and a museum are found in Piura.
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Where to stay
Hotels in Piura
1 hotel within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel San José | 2.4 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Piura
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Piura are June to October. February is the warmest month, with average highs of 34 °C; March is the wettest, with about 24 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Piura: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport (PIU), about 1.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Captain Victor Montes Arias International Airport (TYL, 98 km) is also within reach.
PIU · PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport
TYL · Captain Victor Montes Arias International Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Piura
Eat
The city of Piura is among the best places to eat in Perú. Try ceviche; fish and other types of seafood are always fresh. Another options are leche de tigre (tiger's milk, obviously is not made of a tiger), seco de chabelo, jalea, etc. Food is not particularly spicy in the Mexican sense, though there is a good deal of hot onion and citrus juice in ceviche. In Piura city you can visit El Caracol Azul restaurant, La Santitos or Cafe Capuchino. If you want to eat traditional food, you can visit Catacaos city or Sullana city (have a care in Sullana); both have great restaurants, particularly those of Don Carlos in Sullana.
Stay safe
Be very careful if you decide to change money with the street changers. They are known to rip off tourists, for example by tampering with their calculators to display a wrong amount, or by exchanging one of your bills with a fake one and giving it back to you, claiming it is torn. Better use an established money exchange (Spanish: casa de cambio) or even banks. Or, if you are on your way south through Peru, wait for Arequipa, which has plenty of money exchanges with great rates.
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Questions
Piura: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Piura?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Piura are June to October. February is the warmest month, with average highs of 34 °C; March is the wettest, with about 24 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Piura?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport (PIU), about 1.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Captain Victor Montes Arias International Airport (TYL, 98 km) is also within reach.
What currency is used in Piura?
Nuevo sol (PEN).
Nearby
Destinations near Piura
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.