Climate averages 1991–2020
Maracaibo weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Maracaibo: daytime highs average 30.6°C and nights cool to about 25.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 196 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes October a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Los Puertos de Altagracia (13 km away). In October its highs average 30.5°C, about as warm as Maracaibo, with 196 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Maracaibo ranks joint 23rd of 65 for the warmest October highs and joint 51st of 65 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 65 cities is 29.8°C; Maracaibo is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 196 mm to 135 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Los Puertos de Altagracia in OctoberVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 196 mm rain
- La Concepción in OctoberVenezuela · 25 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.6°C · 138 mm rain
- Concepción, Venezuela in OctoberVenezuela · 27 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 138 mm rain
- Cabimas in OctoberVenezuela · 32 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 25.0°C · 249 mm rain
- Ciudad Ojeda in OctoberVenezuela · 59 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.0°C · 239 mm rain
- La Villa del Rosario in OctoberVenezuela · 84 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.7°C · 150 mm rain
- Maicao in OctoberColombia · 107 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 184 mm rain
- San Timoteo in OctoberVenezuela · 112 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.2°C · 240 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.