Puerto La Cruz climate

Name: Puerto La Cruz
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Puerto La Cruz is warmest in September, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. August is the wettest month (337 mm) and February the driest (14 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Puerto La Cruz averages 2,057 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 370,000 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month February 14 mm
Wettest month August 337 mm
Least cloud January 36 % cloud
Hottest on record September 34 °C
Coldest on record January 20 °C
Warmest sea September 28 °C

What to expectPuerto La Cruz through the year

Puerto La Cruz changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 30 °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, 35 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 337 mm against 14 mm in February — 24 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Puerto La Cruz is warmest in September at 28 °C and coldest in February at 24 °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	27.9 °C	24 mm	36 %
February	28.4 °C	14 mm	37 %
March	29.0 °C	31 mm	47 %
April	29.3 °C	81 mm	63 %
May	29.3 °C	203 mm	70 %
June	28.5 °C	317 mm	72 %
July	28.2 °C	329 mm	67 %
August	28.8 °C	337 mm	68 %
September	29.6 °C	255 mm	68 %
October	29.5 °C	213 mm	67 %
November	28.7 °C	181 mm	61 %
December	28.1 °C	72 mm	46 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.9 °C	23.1 °C	25.4 °C	30.6 °C	19.6 °C	31	0
February	28.4 °C	23.1 °C	25.6 °C	31.5 °C	19.9 °C	28	1
March	29.0 °C	23.6 °C	26.1 °C	32.1 °C	19.7 °C	31	4
April	29.3 °C	24.4 °C	26.7 °C	31.9 °C	20.9 °C	30	6
May	29.3 °C	24.9 °C	27.0 °C	31.7 °C	22.6 °C	31	5
June	28.5 °C	24.7 °C	26.6 °C	31.4 °C	22.2 °C	30	1
July	28.2 °C	24.3 °C	26.1 °C	32.0 °C	22.4 °C	31	0
August	28.8 °C	24.5 °C	26.5 °C	32.2 °C	23.1 °C	31	2
September	29.6 °C	25.0 °C	27.1 °C	33.6 °C	23.1 °C	30	9
October	29.5 °C	25.0 °C	27.1 °C	31.8 °C	23.3 °C	31	6
November	28.7 °C	24.7 °C	26.6 °C	32.1 °C	21.6 °C	30	2
December	28.1 °C	23.8 °C	25.8 °C	30.4 °C	20.2 °C	31	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	24 mm	5	12 h/day	36 %	81 %	18 km/h	24.7 °C
February	14 mm	3	12 h/day	37 %	78 %	20 km/h	24.1 °C
March	31 mm	5	12 h/day	47 %	77 %	20 km/h	24.3 °C
April	81 mm	11	12 h/day	63 %	79 %	18 km/h	24.9 °C
May	203 mm	20	13 h/day	70 %	81 %	16 km/h	25.7 °C
June	317 mm	25	13 h/day	72 %	84 %	15 km/h	26.1 °C
July	329 mm	27	13 h/day	67 %	87 %	13 km/h	26.1 °C
August	337 mm	28	12 h/day	68 %	86 %	12 km/h	27.4 °C
September	255 mm	26	12 h/day	68 %	84 %	13 km/h	28.2 °C
October	213 mm	25	12 h/day	67 %	84 %	13 km/h	28.2 °C
November	181 mm	21	12 h/day	61 %	85 %	15 km/h	27.6 °C
December	72 mm	12	12 h/day	46 %	84 %	17 km/h	26.1 °C

How Puerto La Cruz 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
Puerto La Cruz	30 °C	23 °C	2,057 mm	365
Barcelona · Venezuela	32 °C	22 °C	1,057 mm	365
Cumaná · Venezuela	30 °C	23 °C	768 mm	365
Porlamar · Venezuela	29 °C	24 °C	465 mm	364
El Tigre · Venezuela	34 °C	22 °C	843 mm	365
Carúpano · Venezuela	31 °C	23 °C	1,011 mm	365
Maturín · Venezuela	33 °C	22 °C	1,012 mm	365

Where Puerto La Cruz ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in the world in February	19th of 50	99/100
Best beach destinations in the world in March	37th of 50	95/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Puerto La Cruz.

QuestionsCommon questions about Puerto La Cruz’s climate

When is the best time to visit Puerto La Cruz?

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

How hot does Puerto La Cruz get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 35 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 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Puerto La Cruz?

August, averaging 337 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 14 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,057 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 Puerto La Cruz 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: 10.214°, -64.633° (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.