Ciudad Ojeda climate

Name: Ciudad Ojeda
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Ciudad Ojeda is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 24 °C. May is the wettest month (258 mm) and January the driest (26 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ciudad Ojeda averages 1,857 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 240,283 · 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 February 32 °C
Coldest month December 24 °C
Driest month January 26 mm
Wettest month May 258 mm
Least cloud January 42 % cloud
Hottest on record March 37 °C
Coldest on record November 21 °C

What to expectCiudad Ojeda through the year

Ciudad Ojeda 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, 249 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 258 mm against 26 mm in January — 9.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.3 °C	26 mm	42 %
February	32.1 °C	32 mm	46 %
March	32.1 °C	78 mm	61 %
April	31.1 °C	165 mm	84 %
May	30.4 °C	258 mm	91 %
June	30.5 °C	208 mm	86 %
July	30.7 °C	178 mm	85 %
August	30.9 °C	210 mm	85 %
September	30.7 °C	226 mm	87 %
October	29.9 °C	239 mm	87 %
November	29.5 °C	170 mm	80 %
December	30.4 °C	66 mm	59 %

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	35.2 °C	21.5 °C	31	25
February	32.1 °C	25.0 °C	28.3 °C	35.7 °C	22.1 °C	28	26
March	32.1 °C	25.5 °C	28.5 °C	37.0 °C	22.8 °C	31	28
April	31.1 °C	25.5 °C	28.1 °C	35.6 °C	23.2 °C	30	22
May	30.4 °C	25.5 °C	27.7 °C	34.7 °C	23.7 °C	31	18
June	30.5 °C	25.4 °C	27.8 °C	34.8 °C	23.6 °C	30	20
July	30.7 °C	25.4 °C	27.9 °C	34.0 °C	23.5 °C	31	24
August	30.9 °C	25.5 °C	28.1 °C	34.3 °C	23.4 °C	31	25
September	30.7 °C	25.3 °C	27.8 °C	34.1 °C	23.3 °C	30	20
October	29.9 °C	25.0 °C	27.2 °C	33.7 °C	22.8 °C	31	14
November	29.5 °C	24.6 °C	26.8 °C	32.6 °C	20.8 °C	30	9
December	30.4 °C	24.4 °C	27.2 °C	35.1 °C	21.4 °C	31	18

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	26 mm	6	12 h/day	42 %	71 %	14 km/h
February	32 mm	7	12 h/day	46 %	67 %	15 km/h
March	78 mm	13	12 h/day	61 %	69 %	14 km/h
April	165 mm	23	12 h/day	84 %	78 %	12 km/h
May	258 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	83 %	11 km/h
June	208 mm	26	13 h/day	86 %	82 %	12 km/h
July	178 mm	27	13 h/day	85 %	80 %	13 km/h
August	210 mm	28	12 h/day	85 %	80 %	13 km/h
September	226 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	82 %	12 km/h
October	239 mm	30	12 h/day	87 %	84 %	12 km/h
November	170 mm	26	12 h/day	80 %	84 %	11 km/h
December	66 mm	14	12 h/day	59 %	77 %	12 km/h

How Ciudad Ojeda 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
Ciudad Ojeda	32 °C	24 °C	1,857 mm	365
Cabimas · Venezuela	32 °C	24 °C	1,842 mm	365
Maracaibo · Venezuela	33 °C	24 °C	1,069 mm	365
Valera · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Maicao · Colombia	33 °C	24 °C	903 mm	365
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Mérida · Venezuela	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51

Where Ciudad Ojeda ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in February	17thof 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	17thof 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	27thof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in July	36thof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in April	37thof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in June	37thof 50	31 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Ciudad Ojeda’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ciudad Ojeda?

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

How hot does Ciudad Ojeda get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 249 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °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 Ciudad Ojeda?

May, averaging 258 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 26 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,857 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 Ciudad Ojeda 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: 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.