San Felipe climate

Name: San Felipe
Address: VE

San Felipe is warmest in September, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 21 °C. May is the wettest month (173 mm) and January the driest (40 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year San Felipe averages 1,249 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 206,270 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January 21 °C
Driest month January 40 mm
Wettest month May 173 mm
Least cloud January 73 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record February 16 °C

What to expectSan Felipe through the year

San Felipe changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 121 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 173 mm against 40 mm in January — 4.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.1 °C	40 mm	73 %
February	28.8 °C	42 mm	75 %
March	29.6 °C	80 mm	79 %
April	29.7 °C	161 mm	90 %
May	29.8 °C	173 mm	89 %
June	29.2 °C	127 mm	84 %
July	29.0 °C	120 mm	80 %
August	29.7 °C	90 mm	75 %
September	30.6 °C	89 mm	77 %
October	30.3 °C	129 mm	81 %
November	28.9 °C	125 mm	83 %
December	28.1 °C	73 mm	78 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.1 °C	20.7 °C	23.3 °C	36.1 °C	17.5 °C	30	5
February	28.8 °C	20.7 °C	23.6 °C	36.8 °C	16.2 °C	28	7
March	29.6 °C	21.0 °C	24.1 °C	36.3 °C	16.3 °C	31	12
April	29.7 °C	21.9 °C	24.7 °C	37.6 °C	18.0 °C	30	13
May	29.8 °C	22.3 °C	25.2 °C	37.1 °C	19.9 °C	31	12
June	29.2 °C	22.1 °C	25.0 °C	34.2 °C	19.9 °C	30	7
July	29.0 °C	21.7 °C	24.7 °C	32.4 °C	19.2 °C	31	5
August	29.7 °C	22.0 °C	25.3 °C	33.4 °C	19.4 °C	31	12
September	30.6 °C	22.3 °C	25.9 °C	35.6 °C	19.8 °C	30	20
October	30.3 °C	22.3 °C	25.5 °C	35.0 °C	18.3 °C	31	17
November	28.9 °C	22.0 °C	24.5 °C	32.4 °C	17.9 °C	30	7
December	28.1 °C	21.3 °C	23.8 °C	33.9 °C	17.1 °C	30	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	10	12 h/day	73 %	84 %	12 km/h
February	42 mm	10	12 h/day	75 %	82 %	13 km/h
March	80 mm	12	12 h/day	79 %	82 %	13 km/h
April	161 mm	19	12 h/day	90 %	84 %	10 km/h
May	173 mm	23	13 h/day	89 %	84 %	9.3 km/h
June	127 mm	22	13 h/day	84 %	84 %	9.4 km/h
July	120 mm	23	13 h/day	80 %	84 %	9.0 km/h
August	90 mm	21	12 h/day	75 %	81 %	10 km/h
September	89 mm	19	12 h/day	77 %	79 %	10 km/h
October	129 mm	23	12 h/day	81 %	82 %	8.9 km/h
November	125 mm	21	12 h/day	83 %	86 %	8.8 km/h
December	73 mm	15	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	10 km/h

How San Felipe 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 Felipe	31 °C	21 °C	1,249 mm	362
Barquisimeto · Venezuela	31 °C	20 °C	492 mm	363
Puerto Cabello · Venezuela	30 °C	24 °C	1,935 mm	365
Valencia · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	1,818 mm	359
Araure · Venezuela	33 °C	21 °C	1,333 mm	360
Acarigua · Venezuela	34 °C	22 °C	1,365 mm	362
Maracay · Venezuela	29 °C	21 °C	1,369 mm	356

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

QuestionsCommon questions about San Felipe’s climate

When is the best time to visit San Felipe?

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 January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does San Felipe get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 121 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in San Felipe?

May, averaging 173 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is January with 40 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,249 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 Felipe 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: 10.340°, -68.743° (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.