Caracas climate

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Caracas is warmest in April, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. October is the wettest month (197 mm) and February the driest (28 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Caracas averages 1,354 mm of rain and 337 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 3,000,000 · 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 April 29 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month February 28 mm
Wettest month October 197 mm
Least cloud January 53 % cloud
Hottest on record March 34 °C
Coldest on record February 12 °C
Warmest sea September 29 °C

What to expectCaracas through the year

Caracas changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 and 29 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 337 days a year reach 25 °C, 28 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 197 mm against 28 mm in February — 7.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Caracas is warmest in September at 29 °C and coldest in February at 25 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.4 °C	30 mm	53 %
February	27.4 °C	28 mm	54 %
March	28.4 °C	51 mm	62 %
April	28.5 °C	115 mm	79 %
May	28.3 °C	136 mm	81 %
June	27.7 °C	101 mm	78 %
July	27.5 °C	124 mm	72 %
August	27.6 °C	167 mm	72 %
September	28.0 °C	173 mm	74 %
October	27.5 °C	197 mm	76 %
November	26.6 °C	170 mm	75 %
December	26.1 °C	62 mm	63 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.4 °C	18.7 °C	21.6 °C	32.9 °C	14.0 °C	24	1
February	27.4 °C	18.8 °C	22.0 °C	33.7 °C	12.4 °C	25	3
March	28.4 °C	19.2 °C	22.6 °C	34.2 °C	13.7 °C	29	8
April	28.5 °C	20.0 °C	23.2 °C	33.6 °C	14.6 °C	29	6
May	28.3 °C	20.6 °C	23.5 °C	32.6 °C	17.4 °C	30	5
June	27.7 °C	20.5 °C	23.2 °C	31.8 °C	16.4 °C	29	1
July	27.5 °C	20.3 °C	23.0 °C	31.2 °C	16.2 °C	31	0
August	27.6 °C	20.3 °C	23.1 °C	31.3 °C	17.3 °C	31	1
September	28.0 °C	20.5 °C	23.3 °C	32.2 °C	16.0 °C	30	1
October	27.5 °C	20.4 °C	23.0 °C	31.6 °C	15.1 °C	30	1
November	26.6 °C	20.2 °C	22.5 °C	29.8 °C	15.0 °C	27	0
December	26.1 °C	19.4 °C	21.9 °C	30.9 °C	13.7 °C	23	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	30 mm	9	12 h/day	53 %	79 %	11 km/h	25.4 °C
February	28 mm	7	12 h/day	54 %	76 %	11 km/h	25.1 °C
March	51 mm	10	12 h/day	62 %	75 %	11 km/h	25.3 °C
April	115 mm	16	12 h/day	79 %	77 %	9.2 km/h	25.8 °C
May	136 mm	19	13 h/day	81 %	78 %	8.5 km/h	26.5 °C
June	101 mm	19	13 h/day	78 %	79 %	8.9 km/h	26.6 °C
July	124 mm	22	13 h/day	72 %	79 %	8.5 km/h	26.7 °C
August	167 mm	25	12 h/day	72 %	80 %	7.4 km/h	27.8 °C
September	173 mm	24	12 h/day	74 %	80 %	7.0 km/h	28.5 °C
October	197 mm	25	12 h/day	76 %	83 %	7.2 km/h	28.5 °C
November	170 mm	24	12 h/day	75 %	86 %	8.1 km/h	28.0 °C
December	62 mm	15	12 h/day	63 %	83 %	9.8 km/h	26.6 °C

How Caracas 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
Caracas	29 °C	19 °C	1,354 mm	337
Baruta · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	1,361 mm	313
Petare · Venezuela	28 °C	19 °C	1,379 mm	328
Los Teques · Venezuela	27 °C	17 °C	982 mm	262
Guarenas · Venezuela	30 °C	21 °C	1,532 mm	363
Cúa · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	1,105 mm	365
Santa Teresa del Tuy · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	868 mm	365

Where Caracas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in February	46th of 50	81/100
Places with the best weather in South America in January	47th of 50	81/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Caracas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Caracas?

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, April is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Caracas get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 28 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Caracas?

October, averaging 197 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is February with 28 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,354 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 Caracas 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: 10.488°, -66.879° (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.