Cienfuegos climate

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Cienfuegos is warmest in August, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. September is the wettest month (135 mm) and December the driest (18 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cienfuegos averages 806 mm of rain and 351 days above 25 °C.

Cuba · population 186,644 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month December 18 mm
Wettest month September 135 mm
Least cloud February 28 % cloud
Hottest on record June 38 °C
Coldest on record February 12 °C

What to expectCienfuegos through the year

Cienfuegos has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 33 °C in August, a swing of 5.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 351 days a year reach 25 °C, 192 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 135 mm against 18 mm in December — 7.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.1 °C	22 mm	36 %
February	28.1 °C	24 mm	28 %
March	28.9 °C	22 mm	29 %
April	30.5 °C	31 mm	34 %
May	31.0 °C	109 mm	46 %
June	31.3 °C	134 mm	65 %
July	32.5 °C	84 mm	55 %
August	32.6 °C	101 mm	58 %
September	31.2 °C	135 mm	62 %
October	29.9 °C	99 mm	56 %
November	28.7 °C	28 mm	42 %
December	27.8 °C	18 mm	37 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.1 °C	20.1 °C	23.0 °C	32.3 °C	12.6 °C	26	1
February	28.1 °C	20.2 °C	23.5 °C	33.0 °C	12.0 °C	25	4
March	28.9 °C	20.8 °C	24.2 °C	33.3 °C	14.0 °C	30	9
April	30.5 °C	22.2 °C	25.8 °C	35.6 °C	17.0 °C	30	19
May	31.0 °C	23.5 °C	26.7 °C	35.5 °C	18.1 °C	31	23
June	31.3 °C	24.8 °C	27.5 °C	37.6 °C	22.0 °C	30	24
July	32.5 °C	25.3 °C	28.3 °C	37.3 °C	22.3 °C	31	30
August	32.6 °C	25.5 °C	28.3 °C	37.3 °C	23.4 °C	31	29
September	31.2 °C	25.1 °C	27.5 °C	35.4 °C	23.3 °C	30	25
October	29.9 °C	24.2 °C	26.4 °C	34.7 °C	17.3 °C	31	15
November	28.7 °C	22.4 °C	24.9 °C	33.1 °C	16.2 °C	29	8
December	27.8 °C	21.1 °C	23.8 °C	32.1 °C	12.4 °C	28	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	22 mm	3	11 h/day	36 %	73 %	18 km/h
February	24 mm	3	11 h/day	28 %	72 %	18 km/h
March	22 mm	4	12 h/day	29 %	70 %	19 km/h
April	31 mm	6	13 h/day	34 %	70 %	18 km/h
May	109 mm	14	13 h/day	46 %	73 %	16 km/h
June	134 mm	18	13 h/day	65 %	78 %	14 km/h
July	84 mm	16	13 h/day	55 %	75 %	14 km/h
August	101 mm	19	13 h/day	58 %	76 %	14 km/h
September	135 mm	20	12 h/day	62 %	80 %	14 km/h
October	99 mm	14	12 h/day	56 %	79 %	16 km/h
November	28 mm	4	11 h/day	42 %	75 %	19 km/h
December	18 mm	3	11 h/day	37 %	74 %	18 km/h

Where Cienfuegos ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in November	25th of 50	29 °C
The warmest places in North America year-round	31st of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in October	32nd of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	34th of 50	28 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	38th of 50	27 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	43rd of 50	28 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cienfuegos’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cienfuegos?

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 December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Cienfuegos get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 192 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Cienfuegos?

September, averaging 135 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is December with 18 mm. The year as a whole averages 806 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 Cienfuegos 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: 22.147°, -80.448° (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.