Climate averages 1991–2020
Caracas weather
in January.
A warm, fairly dry month: the joint 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Caracas: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 35 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baruta (6 km away). In January its highs average 26.4°C, about as warm as Caracas, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Caracas ranks joint 54th of 65 for the warmest January highs and joint 41st of 65 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 65 cities is 29.6°C; Caracas is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 29 mm to 27 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Caracas climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 29 | 9.0 | 11.612 h |
| February | 27.6°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 27 | 7.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 28.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 48 | 8.8 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.8°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 119 | 16.0 | 12.412 h |
| May | 28.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 145 | 19.6 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 107 | 19.0 | 12.713 h |
| July | 27.7°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 130 | 22.2 | 12.713 h |
| August | 27.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 182 | 25.5 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 191 | 25.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 27.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 214 | 27.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 26.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 179 | 24.1 | 11.712 h |
| December | 26.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 61 | 14.9 | 11.512 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
January in nearby cities
- Baruta in JanuaryVenezuela · 6 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.1°C · 29 mm rain
- Petare in JanuaryVenezuela · 8 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 61 mm rain
- Los Teques in JanuaryVenezuela · 24 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Guarenas in JanuaryVenezuela · 28 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Cúa in JanuaryVenezuela · 36 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 20.7°C · 16 mm rain
- Santa Teresa del Tuy in JanuaryVenezuela · 37 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 13 mm rain
- Guatire in JanuaryVenezuela · 37 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 21.0°C · 124 mm rain
- Ocumare del Tuy in JanuaryVenezuela · 43 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.1°C · 15 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Caracas) is explained once on the Caracas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Baruta lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.