Climate averages 1991–2020
Mérida, Venezuela weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Mérida, Venezuela: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 41 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ejido (9 km away, marked approximate). In January its highs average 24.1°C, 0.9°C warmer than Mérida, Venezuela, with 108 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Mérida, Venezuela ranks 65th of 65 for the warmest January highs and joint 62nd of 65 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 65 cities is 29.6°C; Mérida, Venezuela is 6.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 108 mm to 127 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
Mérida, Venezuela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 23.2°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 108 | 22.8 | 11.712 h |
| February | 23.6°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 127 | 23.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 23.9°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 215 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 24.2°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 277 | 27.8 | 12.312 h |
| May | 24.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 224 | 27.8 | 12.513 h |
| June | 24.2°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 151 | 24.2 | 12.613 h |
| July | 24.0°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 147 | 26.1 | 12.613 h |
| August | 24.5°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 146 | 25.4 | 12.412 h |
| September | 24.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 143 | 24.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 200 | 27.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 23.7°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 203 | 27.4 | 11.712 h |
| December | 23.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 140 | 24.0 | 11.612 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
- Ejido (approximate) in JanuaryVenezuela · 9 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 108 mm rain
- Socopó in JanuaryVenezuela · 54 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 19.7°C · 11 mm rain
- San Carlos del Zulia in JanuaryVenezuela · 96 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.6°C · 97 mm rain
- San Timoteo in JanuaryVenezuela · 135 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Táriba in JanuaryVenezuela · 143 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 18.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Rubio in JanuaryVenezuela · 163 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Cúcuta in JanuaryColombia · 165 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 20.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Guanare in JanuaryVenezuela · 166 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 21.9°C · 12 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 Mérida) is explained once on the Mérida, Venezuela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ejido lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.