Climate averages 1991–2020
Maracaibo weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Maracaibo: daytime highs average 32.2°C and nights cool to about 26.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th 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 Los Puertos de Altagracia (13 km away). In August its highs average 32.1°C, about as warm as Maracaibo, with 119 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Maracaibo ranks joint 6th of 65 for the warmest August highs and joint 21st of 65 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 65 cities is 29.4°C; Maracaibo is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 31.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 119 mm to 164 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Maracaibo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 5.6 | 1.3 | 11.612 h |
| February | 32.9°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 3.1 | 0.8 | 11.812 h |
| March | 33.1°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 17 | 3.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 32.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 58 | 9.8 | 12.412 h |
| May | 31.6°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 150 | 18.8 | 12.613 h |
| June | 31.9°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 100 | 13.8 | 12.713 h |
| July | 32.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 67 | 11.6 | 12.713 h |
| August, selected | 32.2°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 119 | 17.3 | 12.512 h |
| September | 31.5°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 164 | 21.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.6°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 196 | 25.5 | 11.912 h |
| November | 30.1°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 135 | 18.9 | 11.612 h |
| December | 31.0°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 29 | 5.9 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Los Puertos de Altagracia in AugustVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 25.5°C · 119 mm rain
- La Concepción in AugustVenezuela · 25 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.3°C · 86 mm rain
- Concepción, Venezuela in AugustVenezuela · 27 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 25.9°C · 86 mm rain
- Cabimas in AugustVenezuela · 32 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 25.5°C · 236 mm rain
- Ciudad Ojeda in AugustVenezuela · 59 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.5°C · 226 mm rain
- La Villa del Rosario in AugustVenezuela · 84 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 111 mm rain
- Maicao in AugustColombia · 107 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 25.5°C · 92 mm rain
- San Timoteo in AugustVenezuela · 112 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 170 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 Maracaibo) is explained once on the Maracaibo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Los Puertos de Altagracia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.