Valera climate

Name: Valera
Address: VE

Valera is warmest in August, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. April is the wettest month (376 mm) and January the driest (111 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Valera averages 2,982 mm of rain and 341 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 244,708 · 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 August 28 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month January 111 mm
Wettest month April 376 mm
Least cloud January 60 % cloud
Hottest on record May 35 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectValera through the year

Valera changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 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, 341 days a year reach 25 °C, 21 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 376 mm against 111 mm in January — 3.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.9 °C	111 mm	60 %
February	27.4 °C	143 mm	65 %
March	27.4 °C	250 mm	75 %
April	27.2 °C	376 mm	90 %
May	27.4 °C	352 mm	93 %
June	27.8 °C	231 mm	89 %
July	28.0 °C	215 mm	85 %
August	28.4 °C	243 mm	84 %
September	28.0 °C	276 mm	86 %
October	27.1 °C	326 mm	89 %
November	26.2 °C	281 mm	86 %
December	26.4 °C	179 mm	72 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.9 °C	17.9 °C	22.4 °C	31.6 °C	13.6 °C	28	1
February	27.4 °C	18.5 °C	22.9 °C	32.1 °C	13.6 °C	26	2
March	27.4 °C	19.3 °C	23.3 °C	34.3 °C	15.1 °C	29	2
April	27.2 °C	19.8 °C	23.4 °C	33.7 °C	15.4 °C	28	1
May	27.4 °C	19.8 °C	23.5 °C	35.4 °C	16.1 °C	29	1
June	27.8 °C	19.5 °C	23.6 °C	32.9 °C	15.3 °C	29	2
July	28.0 °C	19.3 °C	23.5 °C	34.0 °C	15.8 °C	31	3
August	28.4 °C	19.4 °C	23.9 °C	33.7 °C	16.5 °C	31	5
September	28.0 °C	19.4 °C	23.8 °C	34.4 °C	16.4 °C	30	4
October	27.1 °C	19.3 °C	23.2 °C	31.5 °C	15.9 °C	30	1
November	26.2 °C	19.0 °C	22.6 °C	30.4 °C	14.8 °C	26	0
December	26.4 °C	18.1 °C	22.3 °C	31.0 °C	12.2 °C	26	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	111 mm	21	12 h/day	60 %	81 %	4.6 km/h
February	143 mm	21	12 h/day	65 %	80 %	4.6 km/h
March	250 mm	27	12 h/day	75 %	81 %	4.7 km/h
April	376 mm	27	12 h/day	90 %	83 %	4.5 km/h
May	352 mm	28	13 h/day	93 %	84 %	5.1 km/h
June	231 mm	26	13 h/day	89 %	82 %	5.7 km/h
July	215 mm	26	13 h/day	85 %	80 %	5.8 km/h
August	243 mm	26	12 h/day	84 %	79 %	5.7 km/h
September	276 mm	26	12 h/day	86 %	80 %	5.1 km/h
October	326 mm	29	12 h/day	89 %	83 %	4.6 km/h
November	281 mm	28	12 h/day	86 %	85 %	4.4 km/h
December	179 mm	24	12 h/day	72 %	83 %	4.6 km/h

How Valera 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
Valera	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Barinas · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	3,198 mm	363
Mérida · Venezuela	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51
Ciudad Ojeda · Venezuela	32 °C	24 °C	1,857 mm	365
El Vigía · Venezuela	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Cabimas · Venezuela	32 °C	24 °C	1,842 mm	365
Araure · Venezuela	33 °C	21 °C	1,333 mm	360

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Valera’s climate

When is the best time to visit Valera?

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

How hot does Valera get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 21 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

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

Which month is wettest in Valera?

April, averaging 376 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 111 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,982 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 Valera 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
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.