Barinas climate

Name: Barinas
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Barinas is warmest in March, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 21 °C. July is the wettest month (760 mm) and January the driest (17 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Barinas averages 3,198 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 397,279 · 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 March 32 °C
Coldest month January 21 °C
Driest month January 17 mm
Wettest month July 760 mm
Least cloud January 52 % cloud
Hottest on record April 39 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C

What to expectBarinas through the year

Barinas changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 166 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 760 mm against 17 mm in January — 45 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.9 °C	17 mm	52 %
February	31.9 °C	22 mm	59 %
March	32.0 °C	64 mm	71 %
April	30.4 °C	179 mm	86 %
May	29.2 °C	385 mm	91 %
June	28.4 °C	647 mm	90 %
July	28.2 °C	760 mm	86 %
August	29.0 °C	516 mm	83 %
September	29.7 °C	284 mm	82 %
October	29.9 °C	173 mm	83 %
November	29.5 °C	102 mm	77 %
December	30.0 °C	49 mm	61 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.9 °C	21.5 °C	25.9 °C	35.2 °C	16.3 °C	31	23
February	31.9 °C	22.4 °C	26.8 °C	37.4 °C	17.4 °C	28	24
March	32.0 °C	23.2 °C	27.2 °C	37.5 °C	18.2 °C	31	24
April	30.4 °C	23.0 °C	26.3 °C	38.5 °C	20.0 °C	30	16
May	29.2 °C	22.6 °C	25.5 °C	36.1 °C	19.2 °C	31	10
June	28.4 °C	22.0 °C	24.8 °C	33.8 °C	19.0 °C	30	4
July	28.2 °C	21.6 °C	24.6 °C	32.3 °C	19.0 °C	30	3
August	29.0 °C	21.8 °C	25.0 °C	33.0 °C	19.5 °C	31	7
September	29.7 °C	22.0 °C	25.5 °C	34.3 °C	19.8 °C	30	12
October	29.9 °C	22.2 °C	25.7 °C	34.1 °C	18.6 °C	31	15
November	29.5 °C	22.2 °C	25.6 °C	32.9 °C	18.3 °C	30	12
December	30.0 °C	21.6 °C	25.5 °C	33.3 °C	17.3 °C	31	15

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	3	12 h/day	52 %	63 %	9.4 km/h
February	22 mm	4	12 h/day	59 %	59 %	9.9 km/h
March	64 mm	8	12 h/day	71 %	61 %	9.4 km/h
April	179 mm	17	12 h/day	86 %	72 %	8.2 km/h
May	385 mm	25	13 h/day	91 %	81 %	7.5 km/h
June	647 mm	26	13 h/day	90 %	84 %	7.4 km/h
July	760 mm	27	13 h/day	86 %	84 %	7.2 km/h
August	516 mm	28	12 h/day	83 %	83 %	7.3 km/h
September	284 mm	25	12 h/day	82 %	81 %	6.9 km/h
October	173 mm	22	12 h/day	83 %	80 %	6.6 km/h
November	102 mm	16	12 h/day	77 %	79 %	7.0 km/h
December	49 mm	8	12 h/day	61 %	72 %	8.4 km/h

How Barinas 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
Barinas	32 °C	21 °C	3,198 mm	363
Valera · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Mérida · Venezuela	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51
Araure · Venezuela	33 °C	21 °C	1,333 mm	360
Acarigua · Venezuela	34 °C	22 °C	1,365 mm	362
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Barquisimeto · Venezuela	31 °C	20 °C	492 mm	363

Where Barinas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in February	18th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	21st of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	36th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in April	42nd of 50	30 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Barinas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Barinas?

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

How hot does Barinas get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 166 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 21 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Barinas?

July, averaging 760 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 17 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,198 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 Barinas 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: 8.621°, -70.231° (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.