San Fernando de Apure climate

Name: San Fernando de Apure
Address: VE

San Fernando de Apure is warmest in March, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 23 °C. June is the wettest month (287 mm) and February the driest (5.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year San Fernando de Apure averages 1,695 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 229,197 · 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 35 °C
Coldest month July 23 °C
Driest month February 5 mm
Wettest month June 287 mm
Least cloud January 45 % cloud
Hottest on record February 39 °C
Coldest on record June 21 °C

What to expectSan Fernando de Apure through the year

San Fernando de Apure has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 30 °C in July to 35 °C in March, a swing of 4.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 293 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 287 mm against 5 mm in February — 53 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.5 °C	8 mm	45 %
February	34.4 °C	5 mm	50 %
March	35.3 °C	24 mm	59 %
April	33.8 °C	124 mm	78 %
May	31.2 °C	256 mm	84 %
June	29.7 °C	287 mm	83 %
July	29.6 °C	287 mm	81 %
August	30.3 °C	251 mm	78 %
September	31.1 °C	188 mm	76 %
October	31.3 °C	153 mm	75 %
November	31.2 °C	89 mm	69 %
December	32.2 °C	24 mm	56 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	33.5 °C	24.8 °C	28.9 °C	37.7 °C	21.8 °C	31	31
February	34.4 °C	25.3 °C	29.6 °C	39.1 °C	22.1 °C	28	28
March	35.3 °C	25.9 °C	30.4 °C	38.7 °C	21.1 °C	31	31
April	33.8 °C	25.5 °C	29.2 °C	38.8 °C	22.5 °C	30	28
May	31.2 °C	24.4 °C	27.3 °C	37.5 °C	22.1 °C	31	22
June	29.7 °C	23.5 °C	26.1 °C	34.7 °C	20.9 °C	30	14
July	29.6 °C	23.1 °C	25.8 °C	34.2 °C	21.1 °C	31	13
August	30.3 °C	23.3 °C	26.2 °C	35.2 °C	21.7 °C	31	18
September	31.1 °C	23.8 °C	26.8 °C	34.6 °C	22.0 °C	30	25
October	31.3 °C	24.0 °C	27.1 °C	34.5 °C	21.7 °C	31	27
November	31.2 °C	24.3 °C	27.3 °C	35.1 °C	22.2 °C	30	27
December	32.2 °C	24.7 °C	28.1 °C	36.1 °C	22.1 °C	31	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	1	12 h/day	45 %	54 %	18 km/h
February	5 mm	1	12 h/day	50 %	50 %	19 km/h
March	24 mm	3	12 h/day	59 %	50 %	18 km/h
April	124 mm	13	12 h/day	78 %	63 %	14 km/h
May	256 mm	22	12 h/day	84 %	78 %	11 km/h
June	287 mm	26	13 h/day	83 %	84 %	11 km/h
July	287 mm	28	13 h/day	81 %	85 %	9.8 km/h
August	251 mm	27	12 h/day	78 %	85 %	9.4 km/h
September	188 mm	24	12 h/day	76 %	83 %	9.4 km/h
October	153 mm	22	12 h/day	75 %	82 %	11 km/h
November	89 mm	14	12 h/day	69 %	78 %	13 km/h
December	24 mm	5	12 h/day	56 %	64 %	17 km/h

How San Fernando de Apure 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 Fernando de Apure	35 °C	23 °C	1,695 mm	365
Calabozo · Venezuela	35 °C	23 °C	1,405 mm	365
Valle de La Pascua · Venezuela	34 °C	23 °C	1,182 mm	365
San Juan de los Morros · Venezuela	33 °C	21 °C	1,208 mm	363
Valencia · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	1,818 mm	359
Ocumare del Tuy · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	1,835 mm	365
Turmero · Venezuela	30 °C	20 °C	1,384 mm	362

Where San Fernando de Apure ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in February	1st of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	1st of 50	35 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	2nd of 50	33 °C
The warmest places in South America in April	8th of 50	34 °C
The warmest places in South America in December	9th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America year-round	14th of 50	32 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about San Fernando de Apure’s climate

When is the best time to visit San Fernando de Apure?

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

How hot does San Fernando de Apure get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 293 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 23 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in San Fernando de Apure?

June, averaging 287 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is February with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,695 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 Fernando de Apure 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: 7.890°, -67.472° (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.