Climate averages 1991–2020
Maracaibo 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.
December is a hot month in Maracaibo: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 24.5°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 Los Puertos de Altagracia (13 km away). In December its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Maracaibo, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Maracaibo ranks joint 14th 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; Maracaibo is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 32.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 29 mm to 5.6 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Los Puertos de Altagracia in DecemberVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 29 mm rain
- La Concepción in DecemberVenezuela · 25 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 27 mm rain
- Concepción, Venezuela in DecemberVenezuela · 27 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 27 mm rain
- Cabimas in DecemberVenezuela · 32 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Ciudad Ojeda in DecemberVenezuela · 59 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 68 mm rain
- La Villa del Rosario in DecemberVenezuela · 84 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 23.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Maicao in DecemberColombia · 107 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 40 mm rain
- San Timoteo in DecemberVenezuela · 112 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 23.6°C · 93 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.