Las Tunas climate

Name: Las Tunas
Address: CU

Las Tunas is warmest in August, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 20 °C. September is the wettest month (167 mm) and February the driest (18 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Las Tunas averages 1,049 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

Cuba · population 203,684 · 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 February 20 °C
Driest month February 18 mm
Wettest month September 167 mm
Least cloud February 29 % cloud
Hottest on record May 38 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectLas Tunas through the year

Las Tunas has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 29 °C in February to 33 °C in August, a swing of 4.3 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 221 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 167 mm against 18 mm in February — 9.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.1 °C	20 mm	35 %
February	29.1 °C	18 mm	29 %
March	30.1 °C	23 mm	32 %
April	31.3 °C	51 mm	36 %
May	31.3 °C	158 mm	52 %
June	31.7 °C	152 mm	64 %
July	32.5 °C	105 mm	52 %
August	32.6 °C	131 mm	55 %
September	31.5 °C	167 mm	61 %
October	30.0 °C	137 mm	59 %
November	28.4 °C	59 mm	46 %
December	28.0 °C	28 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	28.1 °C	20.2 °C	23.5 °C	32.8 °C	12.2 °C	28	6
February	29.1 °C	20.2 °C	23.9 °C	34.0 °C	13.9 °C	27	11
March	30.1 °C	20.7 °C	24.6 °C	35.4 °C	14.5 °C	30	17
April	31.3 °C	21.9 °C	25.8 °C	37.0 °C	16.2 °C	30	22
May	31.3 °C	22.9 °C	26.3 °C	37.8 °C	17.5 °C	31	23
June	31.7 °C	24.0 °C	27.1 °C	36.5 °C	21.6 °C	30	27
July	32.5 °C	24.4 °C	27.7 °C	36.1 °C	21.9 °C	31	30
August	32.6 °C	24.5 °C	27.8 °C	36.1 °C	22.3 °C	31	31
September	31.5 °C	24.0 °C	27.0 °C	35.3 °C	21.8 °C	30	28
October	30.0 °C	23.4 °C	26.0 °C	34.4 °C	19.1 °C	31	17
November	28.4 °C	22.2 °C	24.7 °C	32.8 °C	14.7 °C	29	6
December	28.0 °C	21.1 °C	23.9 °C	32.9 °C	12.7 °C	29	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	20 mm	5	11 h/day	35 %	74 %	20 km/h
February	18 mm	4	11 h/day	29 %	71 %	20 km/h
March	23 mm	6	12 h/day	32 %	68 %	21 km/h
April	51 mm	9	13 h/day	36 %	69 %	20 km/h
May	158 mm	18	13 h/day	52 %	75 %	18 km/h
June	152 mm	20	13 h/day	64 %	79 %	16 km/h
July	105 mm	18	13 h/day	52 %	77 %	18 km/h
August	131 mm	20	13 h/day	55 %	78 %	17 km/h
September	167 mm	22	12 h/day	61 %	81 %	15 km/h
October	137 mm	19	12 h/day	59 %	83 %	16 km/h
November	59 mm	11	11 h/day	46 %	80 %	19 km/h
December	28 mm	6	11 h/day	37 %	77 %	20 km/h

How Las Tunas 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
Las Tunas	33 °C	20 °C	1,049 mm	356
Holguín · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	904 mm	353
Bayamo · Cuba	34 °C	19 °C	1,110 mm	361
Camagüey · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	963 mm	355
Santiago de Cuba · Cuba	32 °C	21 °C	789 mm	363
Guantánamo · Cuba	34 °C	20 °C	847 mm	364

Where Las Tunas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America year-round	20thof 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	22ndof 50	29 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	24thof 50	28 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	28thof 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in October	29thof 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	30thof 50	28 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Las Tunas.

QuestionsCommon questions about Las Tunas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Las Tunas?

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

How hot does Las Tunas get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 221 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 February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Las Tunas?

September, averaging 167 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is February with 18 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,049 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 Las Tunas 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
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.