Barquisimeto climate

Name: Barquisimeto
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Barquisimeto is warmest in March, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. May is the wettest month (68 mm) and January the driest (7.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Barquisimeto averages 492 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 1,240,714 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month January 8 mm
Wettest month May 68 mm
Least cloud January 51 % cloud
Hottest on record April 36 °C
Coldest on record March 16 °C

What to expectBarquisimeto through the year

Barquisimeto changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 31 °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, 152 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 68 mm against 8 mm in January — 8.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.0 °C	8 mm	51 %
February	30.7 °C	8 mm	55 %
March	31.1 °C	24 mm	65 %
April	30.1 °C	54 mm	84 %
May	29.1 °C	68 mm	87 %
June	28.5 °C	60 mm	84 %
July	28.6 °C	57 mm	78 %
August	29.5 °C	47 mm	77 %
September	30.2 °C	43 mm	79 %
October	29.9 °C	58 mm	79 %
November	29.3 °C	48 mm	75 %
December	29.3 °C	18 mm	62 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.0 °C	19.7 °C	23.9 °C	34.5 °C	16.1 °C	31	16
February	30.7 °C	19.9 °C	24.2 °C	35.4 °C	16.1 °C	28	19
March	31.1 °C	20.4 °C	24.7 °C	35.8 °C	15.8 °C	31	22
April	30.1 °C	21.1 °C	24.8 °C	36.0 °C	17.5 °C	30	16
May	29.1 °C	21.3 °C	24.6 °C	35.4 °C	18.3 °C	31	9
June	28.5 °C	20.9 °C	24.1 °C	33.2 °C	18.0 °C	30	4
July	28.6 °C	20.6 °C	23.9 °C	32.7 °C	18.0 °C	31	4
August	29.5 °C	20.8 °C	24.5 °C	33.3 °C	18.5 °C	31	11
September	30.2 °C	21.1 °C	24.9 °C	34.5 °C	18.9 °C	30	17
October	29.9 °C	21.0 °C	24.7 °C	34.7 °C	18.0 °C	31	15
November	29.3 °C	20.9 °C	24.3 °C	33.6 °C	16.6 °C	30	9
December	29.3 °C	20.3 °C	24.0 °C	33.0 °C	16.5 °C	31	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	2	12 h/day	51 %	71 %	14 km/h
February	8 mm	2	12 h/day	55 %	69 %	14 km/h
March	24 mm	5	12 h/day	65 %	69 %	15 km/h
April	54 mm	11	12 h/day	84 %	74 %	15 km/h
May	68 mm	15	13 h/day	87 %	79 %	17 km/h
June	60 mm	18	13 h/day	84 %	79 %	17 km/h
July	57 mm	18	13 h/day	78 %	79 %	17 km/h
August	47 mm	16	12 h/day	77 %	78 %	18 km/h
September	43 mm	14	12 h/day	79 %	77 %	17 km/h
October	58 mm	15	12 h/day	79 %	78 %	15 km/h
November	48 mm	12	12 h/day	75 %	79 %	13 km/h
December	18 mm	4	12 h/day	62 %	75 %	14 km/h

How Barquisimeto 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
Barquisimeto	31 °C	20 °C	492 mm	363
Araure · Venezuela	33 °C	21 °C	1,333 mm	360
Acarigua · Venezuela	34 °C	22 °C	1,365 mm	362
San Felipe · Venezuela	31 °C	21 °C	1,249 mm	362
Valencia · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	1,818 mm	359
Coro · Venezuela	35 °C	23 °C	458 mm	365
Puerto Cabello · Venezuela	30 °C	24 °C	1,935 mm	365

Where Barquisimeto ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in South America in January	22nd of 50	7.7 mm
The warmest places in South America in March	32nd of 50	31 °C
The driest places in South America in February	33rd of 50	7.9 mm
The warmest places in South America in February	41st of 50	31 °C
The driest places in South America in December	43rd of 50	18 mm
The driest places in South America year-round	45th of 50	41 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Barquisimeto’s climate

When is the best time to visit Barquisimeto?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, July, December 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 Barquisimeto get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 152 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °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 Barquisimeto?

May, averaging 68 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is January with 8 mm. The year as a whole averages 492 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 Barquisimeto 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: 10.065°, -69.357° (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.