Barinas climate
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 | Days below 0 °C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.9 °C | 21.5 °C | 25.9 °C | 35.2 °C | 16.3 °C | 31 | 23 | 0 |
| February | 31.9 °C | 22.4 °C | 26.8 °C | 37.4 °C | 17.4 °C | 28 | 24 | 0 |
| March | 32.0 °C | 23.2 °C | 27.2 °C | 37.5 °C | 18.2 °C | 31 | 24 | 0 |
| April | 30.4 °C | 23.0 °C | 26.3 °C | 38.5 °C | 20.0 °C | 30 | 16 | 0 |
| May | 29.2 °C | 22.6 °C | 25.5 °C | 36.1 °C | 19.2 °C | 31 | 10 | 0 |
| June | 28.4 °C | 22.0 °C | 24.8 °C | 33.8 °C | 19.0 °C | 30 | 4 | 0 |
| July | 28.2 °C | 21.6 °C | 24.6 °C | 32.3 °C | 19.0 °C | 30 | 3 | 0 |
| August | 29.0 °C | 21.8 °C | 25.0 °C | 33.0 °C | 19.5 °C | 31 | 7 | 0 |
| September | 29.7 °C | 22.0 °C | 25.5 °C | 34.3 °C | 19.8 °C | 30 | 12 | 0 |
| October | 29.9 °C | 22.2 °C | 25.7 °C | 34.1 °C | 18.6 °C | 31 | 15 | 0 |
| November | 29.5 °C | 22.2 °C | 25.6 °C | 32.9 °C | 18.3 °C | 30 | 12 | 0 |
| December | 30.0 °C | 21.6 °C | 25.5 °C | 33.3 °C | 17.3 °C | 31 | 15 | 0 |
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 | 18thof 50 | 32 °C |
| The warmest places in South America in March | 21stof 50 | 32 °C |
| The warmest places in South America in January | 36thof 50 | 31 °C |
| The warmest places in South America in April | 42ndof 50 | 30 °C |
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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
- Dataset version
- era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
- Last processed
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.