Mérida climate

Name: Mérida
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Mérida is warmest in September, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 15 °C. April is the wettest month (267 mm) and January the driest (110 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mérida averages 1,997 mm of rain and 51 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 300,000 · 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 September 24 °C
Coldest month January 15 °C
Driest month January 110 mm
Wettest month April 267 mm
Least cloud January 65 % cloud
Hottest on record September 30 °C
Coldest on record January 6.0 °C

What to expectMérida through the year

Mérida changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 23 and 24 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 51 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 267 mm against 110 mm in January — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	22.8 °C	110 mm	65 %
February	23.2 °C	128 mm	69 %
March	23.5 °C	209 mm	79 %
April	23.8 °C	267 mm	91 %
May	24.1 °C	211 mm	94 %
June	24.0 °C	140 mm	92 %
July	23.8 °C	137 mm	90 %
August	24.3 °C	133 mm	89 %
September	24.4 °C	129 mm	89 %
October	24.0 °C	194 mm	91 %
November	23.2 °C	198 mm	88 %
December	22.9 °C	141 mm	75 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	22.8 °C	14.7 °C	18.6 °C	27.3 °C	6.0 °C	2
February	23.2 °C	15.3 °C	19.0 °C	28.0 °C	6.4 °C	3
March	23.5 °C	15.9 °C	19.5 °C	27.7 °C	7.9 °C	4
April	23.8 °C	16.4 °C	19.8 °C	28.5 °C	9.5 °C	5
May	24.1 °C	16.4 °C	20.0 °C	28.8 °C	10.5 °C	6
June	24.0 °C	15.9 °C	19.7 °C	27.8 °C	10.4 °C	5
July	23.8 °C	15.4 °C	19.4 °C	28.6 °C	9.5 °C	4
August	24.3 °C	15.5 °C	19.8 °C	28.8 °C	10.4 °C	6
September	24.4 °C	15.8 °C	19.9 °C	29.5 °C	10.7 °C	7
October	24.0 °C	15.9 °C	19.7 °C	29.0 °C	11.1 °C	5
November	23.2 °C	15.8 °C	19.3 °C	26.5 °C	9.4 °C	1
December	22.9 °C	15.1 °C	18.8 °C	26.9 °C	7.6 °C	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	110 mm	21	12 h/day	65 %	84 %	4.5 km/h
February	128 mm	22	12 h/day	69 %	84 %	4.6 km/h
March	209 mm	27	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	4.6 km/h
April	267 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	87 %	4.5 km/h
May	211 mm	27	13 h/day	94 %	87 %	5.0 km/h
June	140 mm	24	13 h/day	92 %	85 %	5.6 km/h
July	137 mm	25	13 h/day	90 %	85 %	5.7 km/h
August	133 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	84 %	5.5 km/h
September	129 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	84 %	5.1 km/h
October	194 mm	26	12 h/day	91 %	86 %	4.6 km/h
November	198 mm	27	12 h/day	88 %	87 %	4.3 km/h
December	141 mm	23	12 h/day	75 %	86 %	4.5 km/h

How Mérida 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
Mérida	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Valera · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Barinas · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	3,198 mm	363
San Cristóbal · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	1,031 mm	298
Cúcuta · Colombia	32 °C	20 °C	1,177 mm	355

Where Mérida ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in South America in March	42nd of 50	23 °C
The coolest places in South America in February	45th of 50	23 °C
The coolest places in South America in January	45th of 50	23 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Mérida’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mérida?

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

How hot does Mérida get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 24 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 15 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Mérida?

April, averaging 267 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 110 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,997 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 Mérida 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: 8.579°, -71.169° (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.