Climate averages 1991–2020

Cabimas weather
in August.

A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.0°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 25.5°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 236 mm 30 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Cabimas · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Cabimas: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 236 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 28 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Concepción, Venezuela (26 km away). In August its highs average 32.2°C, 1.2°C warmer than Cabimas, with 86 mm of rain.

Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Cabimas ranks joint 11th of 65 for the warmest August highs and 58th of 65 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 65 cities is 29.4°C; Cabimas is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 30.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 236 mm to 233 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Cabimas climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Cabimas, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 31.5°C24.6°C24.6°C174.111.612 h
February 32.4°C25.2°C25.2°C163.811.812 h
March 32.5°C25.6°C25.6°C569.612.112 h
April 31.6°C25.7°C25.7°C15320.812.412 h
May 30.7°C25.6°C25.6°C27128.712.613 h
June 30.9°C25.6°C25.6°C21027.012.713 h
July 30.9°C25.4°C25.4°C20828.612.713 h
August, selected 31.0°C25.5°C25.5°C23630.412.512 h
September 30.6°C25.4°C25.4°C23328.812.212 h
October 30.0°C25.0°C25.0°C24929.911.912 h
November 29.6°C24.7°C24.7°C18825.511.712 h
December 30.5°C24.5°C24.5°C6213.311.512 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

August in nearby cities

Distance from Cabimas

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cabimas) is explained once on the Cabimas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.