Climate averages 1991–2020

Los Puertos de Altagracia weather
in December.

A hot, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.2°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 24.2°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 29 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Los Puertos de Altagracia · average highYear overview

December is a hot month in Los Puertos de Altagracia: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 31 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Maracaibo (13 km away). In December its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Los Puertos de Altagracia, with 29 mm of rain.

Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Los Puertos de Altagracia ranks joint 10th of 65 for the warmest December highs and joint 19th of 65 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 65 cities is 29.1°C; Los Puertos de Altagracia is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.

From December to January, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 32.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 29 mm to 5.6 mm.

The annual picture

December 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. 2025303540 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 2000

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

Every month, side by side

Los Puertos de Altagracia climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Los Puertos de Altagracia, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 32.5°C24.1°C24.1°C5.61.311.612 h
February 33.5°C24.5°C24.5°C3.10.811.812 h
March 33.8°C24.9°C24.9°C173.612.112 h
April 33.1°C25.5°C25.5°C589.812.412 h
May 31.8°C25.5°C25.5°C15018.812.613 h
June 32.0°C25.5°C25.5°C10013.812.713 h
July 32.4°C25.4°C25.4°C6711.612.713 h
August 32.1°C25.5°C25.5°C11917.312.512 h
September 31.4°C25.3°C25.3°C16421.412.212 h
October 30.5°C24.8°C24.8°C19625.511.912 h
November 30.1°C24.4°C24.4°C13518.911.612 h
December, selected 31.2°C24.2°C24.2°C295.911.512 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

December in nearby cities

Distance from Los Puertos de Altagracia

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 Los Puertos de Altagracia) is explained once on the Los Puertos de Altagracia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

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