Santa Clara climate

Name: Santa Clara
Address: CU

Santa Clara is warmest in August, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. September is the wettest month (155 mm) and March the driest (23 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Santa Clara averages 945 mm of rain and 330 days above 25 °C.

Cuba · population 250,512 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month March 23 mm
Wettest month September 155 mm
Least cloud February 36 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record December 8.8 °C

What to expectSanta Clara through the year

Santa Clara has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 32 °C in August, a swing of 5.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 330 days a year reach 25 °C, 167 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 155 mm against 23 mm in March — 6.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.1 °C	24 mm	45 %
February	27.4 °C	27 mm	36 %
March	28.7 °C	23 mm	36 %
April	30.4 °C	44 mm	39 %
May	30.6 °C	127 mm	49 %
June	31.0 °C	151 mm	67 %
July	31.7 °C	96 mm	57 %
August	31.7 °C	117 mm	59 %
September	30.6 °C	155 mm	64 %
October	28.9 °C	113 mm	61 %
November	27.0 °C	44 mm	50 %
December	26.4 °C	24 mm	46 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.1 °C	18.2 °C	21.5 °C	31.6 °C	9.6 °C	21	2
February	27.4 °C	18.4 °C	22.2 °C	32.5 °C	9.1 °C	23	5
March	28.7 °C	18.9 °C	23.1 °C	35.3 °C	9.6 °C	27	11
April	30.4 °C	20.5 °C	24.7 °C	37.6 °C	14.0 °C	30	18
May	30.6 °C	21.8 °C	25.5 °C	36.0 °C	15.1 °C	31	19
June	31.0 °C	23.2 °C	26.4 °C	35.9 °C	20.4 °C	30	23
July	31.7 °C	23.6 °C	27.0 °C	35.7 °C	20.4 °C	31	28
August	31.7 °C	23.8 °C	27.0 °C	36.5 °C	20.7 °C	31	28
September	30.6 °C	23.3 °C	26.2 °C	33.8 °C	20.8 °C	30	22
October	28.9 °C	22.5 °C	25.1 °C	33.9 °C	15.6 °C	30	8
November	27.0 °C	20.7 °C	23.3 °C	33.7 °C	11.6 °C	25	2
December	26.4 °C	19.3 °C	22.2 °C	32.3 °C	8.8 °C	22	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	24 mm	5	11 h/day	45 %	77 %	18 km/h
February	27 mm	4	11 h/day	36 %	74 %	18 km/h
March	23 mm	5	12 h/day	36 %	70 %	19 km/h
April	44 mm	8	13 h/day	39 %	70 %	18 km/h
May	127 mm	16	13 h/day	49 %	75 %	17 km/h
June	151 mm	20	14 h/day	67 %	81 %	15 km/h
July	96 mm	17	13 h/day	57 %	79 %	16 km/h
August	117 mm	19	13 h/day	59 %	80 %	15 km/h
September	155 mm	22	12 h/day	64 %	83 %	14 km/h
October	113 mm	18	12 h/day	61 %	83 %	16 km/h
November	44 mm	9	11 h/day	50 %	81 %	18 km/h
December	24 mm	5	11 h/day	46 %	79 %	18 km/h

How Santa Clara 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
Santa Clara	32 °C	18 °C	945 mm	330
Cienfuegos · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	806 mm	351
Camagüey · Cuba	33 °C	20 °C	963 mm	355
San Miguel del Padrón · Cuba	32 °C	20 °C	954 mm	332

Where Santa Clara ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in February	49th of 50	27 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Santa Clara.

QuestionsCommon questions about Santa Clara’s climate

When is the best time to visit Santa Clara?

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

How hot does Santa Clara get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 167 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 18 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Santa Clara?

September, averaging 155 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is March with 23 mm. The year as a whole averages 945 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 Santa Clara 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: 22.407°, -79.966° (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.