Climate averages 1991–2020

El Tigre weather
in August.

A hot, wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 29.3°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 22.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 133 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in El Tigre · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in El Tigre: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 133 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is San José de Guanipa (10 km away). In August its highs average 29.5°C, about as warm as El Tigre, with 133 mm of rain.

Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, El Tigre ranks 36th of 65 for the warmest August highs and joint 30th of 65 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 65 cities is 29.4°C; El Tigre is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 133 mm to 102 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. 152025303540 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 1500

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

Every month, side by side

El Tigre climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for El Tigre, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 31.5°C21.5°C21.5°C8.62.611.712 h
February 32.3°C21.6°C21.6°C5.61.511.812 h
March 33.3°C22.1°C22.1°C142.412.112 h
April 33.6°C23.0°C23.0°C375.612.312 h
May 32.0°C23.0°C23.0°C9313.712.513 h
June 29.6°C22.5°C22.5°C12620.612.613 h
July 29.0°C22.1°C22.1°C12723.212.613 h
August, selected 29.3°C22.3°C22.3°C13322.712.412 h
September 30.4°C22.6°C22.6°C10218.612.212 h
October 31.2°C22.8°C22.8°C8415.611.912 h
November 31.0°C22.7°C22.7°C6413.611.712 h
December 30.9°C22.1°C22.1°C267.511.612 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 El Tigre

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 El Tigre) is explained once on the El Tigre year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

San José de Guanipa lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.