San Cristóbal climate

Name: San Cristóbal
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San Cristóbal is warmest in March, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 18 °C. April is the wettest month (138 mm) and January the driest (43 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year San Cristóbal averages 1,031 mm of rain and 298 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 289,852 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month July 18 °C
Driest month January 43 mm
Wettest month April 138 mm
Least cloud January 61 % cloud
Hottest on record November 39 °C
Coldest on record February 14 °C

What to expectSan Cristóbal through the year

San Cristóbal changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 25 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 298 days a year reach 25 °C, 12 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in November.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 138 mm against 43 mm in January — 3.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.8 °C	43 mm	61 %
February	27.5 °C	46 mm	65 %
March	27.7 °C	95 mm	78 %
April	26.9 °C	138 mm	90 %
May	26.1 °C	130 mm	93 %
June	25.5 °C	92 mm	92 %
July	25.5 °C	82 mm	90 %
August	26.1 °C	65 mm	89 %
September	27.0 °C	57 mm	88 %
October	27.2 °C	106 mm	89 %
November	26.7 °C	112 mm	85 %
December	26.4 °C	66 mm	71 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.8 °C	18.3 °C	22.3 °C	32.6 °C	14.1 °C	26	2
February	27.5 °C	18.8 °C	22.9 °C	32.8 °C	13.9 °C	25	3
March	27.7 °C	19.3 °C	23.2 °C	33.3 °C	14.7 °C	28	4
April	26.9 °C	19.3 °C	22.8 °C	32.0 °C	15.2 °C	26	1
May	26.1 °C	19.1 °C	22.3 °C	34.2 °C	16.0 °C	24	0
June	25.5 °C	18.5 °C	21.7 °C	29.8 °C	15.9 °C	19	0
July	25.5 °C	18.2 °C	21.5 °C	29.4 °C	14.9 °C	19	0
August	26.1 °C	18.5 °C	22.0 °C	30.1 °C	14.7 °C	25	0
September	27.0 °C	19.0 °C	22.7 °C	31.0 °C	15.4 °C	28	0
October	27.2 °C	19.1 °C	22.8 °C	33.4 °C	15.4 °C	28	1
November	26.7 °C	18.8 °C	22.4 °C	39.1 °C	16.3 °C	25	0
December	26.4 °C	18.4 °C	22.1 °C	30.3 °C	14.3 °C	25	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	43 mm	8	12 h/day	61 %	72 %	12 km/h
February	46 mm	8	12 h/day	65 %	71 %	12 km/h
March	95 mm	13	12 h/day	78 %	74 %	12 km/h
April	138 mm	16	12 h/day	90 %	81 %	11 km/h
May	130 mm	16	12 h/day	93 %	83 %	13 km/h
June	92 mm	13	13 h/day	92 %	83 %	14 km/h
July	82 mm	13	13 h/day	90 %	83 %	15 km/h
August	65 mm	11	12 h/day	89 %	81 %	15 km/h
September	57 mm	11	12 h/day	88 %	78 %	14 km/h
October	106 mm	15	12 h/day	89 %	79 %	12 km/h
November	112 mm	15	12 h/day	85 %	81 %	10 km/h
December	66 mm	10	12 h/day	71 %	77 %	11 km/h

How San Cristóbal 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
San Cristóbal	28 °C	18 °C	1,031 mm	298
Cúcuta · Colombia	32 °C	20 °C	1,177 mm	355
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Bucaramanga · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	8,974 mm	105
Floridablanca · Colombia	25 °C	18 °C	5,162 mm	178
Piedecuesta · Colombia	25 °C	17 °C	4,988 mm	170
Mérida · Venezuela	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51

Where San Cristóbal ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in January	43rd of 50	83/100
Places with the best weather in South America in February	47th of 50	81/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit San Cristóbal.

QuestionsCommon questions about San Cristóbal’s climate

When is the best time to visit San Cristóbal?

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

How hot does San Cristóbal get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 12 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in San Cristóbal?

April, averaging 138 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is January with 43 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,031 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 San Cristóbal 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: 7.766°, -72.236° (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.