Bayamo climate

Name: Bayamo
Address: CU

Bayamo is warmest in August, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. May is the wettest month (178 mm) and January the driest (20 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bayamo averages 1,110 mm of rain and 361 days above 25 °C.

Cuba · population 192,632 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month August 34 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month January 20 mm
Wettest month May 178 mm
Least cloud February 30 % cloud
Hottest on record June 39 °C
Coldest on record December 10 °C

What to expectBayamo through the year

Bayamo has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 29 °C in January to 34 °C in August, a swing of 4.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 361 days a year reach 25 °C, 272 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 178 mm against 20 mm in January — 9.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.4 °C	20 mm	35 %
February	30.5 °C	20 mm	30 %
March	31.2 °C	38 mm	35 %
April	32.3 °C	67 mm	38 %
May	32.1 °C	178 mm	54 %
June	32.6 °C	144 mm	66 %
July	33.8 °C	117 mm	55 %
August	33.8 °C	132 mm	58 %
September	32.5 °C	164 mm	63 %
October	31.1 °C	141 mm	61 %
November	29.6 °C	60 mm	48 %
December	29.2 °C	29 mm	38 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.4 °C	19.1 °C	23.6 °C	35.2 °C	11.3 °C	29	15
February	30.5 °C	19.2 °C	24.2 °C	35.7 °C	13.0 °C	28	18
March	31.2 °C	20.0 °C	25.0 °C	36.6 °C	13.0 °C	31	23
April	32.3 °C	21.3 °C	26.2 °C	39.1 °C	16.2 °C	30	26
May	32.1 °C	22.4 °C	26.5 °C	38.3 °C	16.7 °C	31	26
June	32.6 °C	23.3 °C	27.3 °C	39.2 °C	20.9 °C	30	28
July	33.8 °C	23.6 °C	28.0 °C	39.2 °C	20.8 °C	31	31
August	33.8 °C	23.7 °C	28.0 °C	38.4 °C	21.0 °C	31	31
September	32.5 °C	23.3 °C	27.2 °C	37.2 °C	20.7 °C	30	28
October	31.1 °C	22.7 °C	26.2 °C	36.1 °C	17.9 °C	31	23
November	29.6 °C	21.2 °C	24.8 °C	35.1 °C	14.6 °C	29	14
December	29.2 °C	19.9 °C	23.9 °C	34.2 °C	10.4 °C	30	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	20 mm	4	11 h/day	35 %	73 %	14 km/h
February	20 mm	4	11 h/day	30 %	69 %	14 km/h
March	38 mm	7	12 h/day	35 %	66 %	14 km/h
April	67 mm	10	13 h/day	38 %	67 %	13 km/h
May	178 mm	19	13 h/day	54 %	73 %	11 km/h
June	144 mm	20	13 h/day	66 %	77 %	10 km/h
July	117 mm	19	13 h/day	55 %	73 %	12 km/h
August	132 mm	22	13 h/day	58 %	74 %	11 km/h
September	164 mm	23	12 h/day	63 %	78 %	9.7 km/h
October	141 mm	20	12 h/day	61 %	80 %	11 km/h
November	60 mm	10	11 h/day	48 %	79 %	14 km/h
December	29 mm	6	11 h/day	38 %	77 %	14 km/h

How Bayamo compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Bayamo	34 °C	19 °C	1,110 mm	361
Holguín · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	904 mm	353
Las Tunas · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	1,049 mm	356
Santiago de Cuba · Cuba	32 °C	21 °C	789 mm	363
Guantánamo · Cuba	34 °C	20 °C	847 mm	364
Camagüey · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	963 mm	355
Kingston · Jamaica	31 °C	21 °C	895 mm	364

Where Bayamo ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America year-round	11th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in October	12th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in April	13th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	14th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	15th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in November	15th of 50	30 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Bayamo.

QuestionsCommon questions about Bayamo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bayamo?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, August is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bayamo get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 272 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bayamo?

May, averaging 178 mm over 19 days with rain. The driest month is January with 20 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,110 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Bayamo rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 20.374°, -76.643° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.