Cabimas climate

Name: Cabimas
Address: VE

Cabimas is warmest in March, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 24 °C. May is the wettest month (260 mm) and February the driest (17 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cabimas averages 1,842 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 351,736 · 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 December 24 °C
Driest month February 17 mm
Wettest month May 260 mm
Least cloud January 38 % cloud
Hottest on record March 36 °C
Coldest on record January 21 °C

What to expectCabimas through the year

Cabimas changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 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, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 254 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 260 mm against 17 mm in February — 16 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.3 °C	17 mm	38 %
February	32.2 °C	17 mm	42 %
March	32.3 °C	55 mm	58 %
April	31.4 °C	148 mm	82 %
May	30.6 °C	260 mm	89 %
June	30.7 °C	198 mm	84 %
July	30.8 °C	191 mm	83 %
August	30.9 °C	223 mm	84 %
September	30.6 °C	226 mm	86 %
October	29.8 °C	255 mm	85 %
November	29.5 °C	190 mm	78 %
December	30.3 °C	64 mm	56 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.3 °C	24.4 °C	27.6 °C	34.9 °C	20.5 °C	31	25
February	32.2 °C	25.0 °C	28.3 °C	35.8 °C	22.0 °C	28	27
March	32.3 °C	25.4 °C	28.5 °C	36.4 °C	22.8 °C	31	29
April	31.4 °C	25.6 °C	28.2 °C	35.7 °C	23.1 °C	30	24
May	30.6 °C	25.5 °C	27.8 °C	36.0 °C	23.7 °C	31	21
June	30.7 °C	25.5 °C	27.9 °C	35.1 °C	23.4 °C	30	22
July	30.8 °C	25.4 °C	28.0 °C	34.2 °C	23.4 °C	31	25
August	30.9 °C	25.5 °C	28.1 °C	34.0 °C	23.2 °C	31	25
September	30.6 °C	25.3 °C	27.8 °C	34.5 °C	23.3 °C	30	20
October	29.8 °C	25.0 °C	27.2 °C	33.8 °C	23.1 °C	31	12
November	29.5 °C	24.6 °C	26.8 °C	32.6 °C	20.9 °C	30	8
December	30.3 °C	24.4 °C	27.2 °C	34.5 °C	21.0 °C	31	17

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	4	12 h/day	38 %	70 %	18 km/h
February	17 mm	4	12 h/day	42 %	66 %	19 km/h
March	55 mm	10	12 h/day	58 %	68 %	19 km/h
April	148 mm	20	12 h/day	82 %	77 %	14 km/h
May	260 mm	27	13 h/day	89 %	83 %	12 km/h
June	198 mm	25	13 h/day	84 %	83 %	12 km/h
July	191 mm	27	13 h/day	83 %	81 %	12 km/h
August	223 mm	29	12 h/day	84 %	82 %	12 km/h
September	226 mm	28	12 h/day	86 %	83 %	12 km/h
October	255 mm	29	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	12 km/h
November	190 mm	25	12 h/day	78 %	85 %	12 km/h
December	64 mm	13	12 h/day	56 %	78 %	15 km/h

How Cabimas 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
Cabimas	32 °C	24 °C	1,842 mm	365
Ciudad Ojeda · Venezuela	32 °C	24 °C	1,857 mm	365
Maracaibo · Venezuela	33 °C	24 °C	1,069 mm	365
Maicao · Colombia	33 °C	24 °C	903 mm	365
Valera · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Valledupar · Colombia	29 °C	20 °C	1,987 mm	346
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350

Where Cabimas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in March	15th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in February	16th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	28th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in April	32nd of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in June	34th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in July	35th of 50	31 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cabimas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cabimas?

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

How hot does Cabimas get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 254 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 24 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Cabimas?

May, averaging 260 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is February with 17 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,842 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 Cabimas 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: 10.399°, -71.452° (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.