Climate averages 1991–2020
Los Rastrojos weather
in January.
A hot, very dry month: the 3rd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Los Rastrojos: daytime highs average 30.4°C and nights cool to about 21.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 6.7 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes January a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 36 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cabudare (2 km away). In January its highs average 30.8°C, about as warm as Los Rastrojos, with 6.7 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Los Rastrojos ranks 26th of 65 for the warmest January highs and joint 9th of 65 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 65 cities is 29.6°C; Los Rastrojos is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 6.7 mm to 7.2 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
Los Rastrojos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 30.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 6.7 | 1.8 | 11.612 h |
| February | 31.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 7.2 | 2.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 31.7°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 25 | 4.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.2°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 52 | 11.5 | 12.312 h |
| May | 28.3°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 66 | 16.6 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.1°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 60 | 18.7 | 12.713 h |
| July | 26.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 54 | 18.5 | 12.613 h |
| August | 27.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 44 | 17.7 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 41 | 15.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 55 | 15.7 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.1°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 43 | 12.0 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 16 | 4.5 | 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
- Cabudare in JanuaryVenezuela · 2 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Barquisimeto in JanuaryVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 19.8°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Yaritagua in JanuaryVenezuela · 14 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 21.0°C · 11 mm rain
- Chivacoa in JanuaryVenezuela · 41 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Acarigua in JanuaryVenezuela · 53 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 22.1°C · 9.5 mm rain
- San Felipe in JanuaryVenezuela · 65 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.5°C · 43 mm rain
- El Tocuyo in JanuaryVenezuela · 66 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 19.7°C · 39 mm rain
- San Carlos in JanuaryVenezuela · 82 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 9.1 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 Los Rastrojos) is explained once on the Los Rastrojos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barquisimeto and Cabudare lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.