Climate averages 1991–2020

Petare weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 61 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Petare: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 35 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Caracas (8 km away). In January its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Petare, with 29 mm of rain.

Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Petare ranks 57th of 65 for the warmest January highs and 55th of 65 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 65 cities is 29.6°C; Petare is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 52 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Petare climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Petare, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.5°C19.4°C	19.4°C	61	15.9	11.612 h
February	27.3°C19.4°C	19.4°C	52	13.2	11.812 h
March	28.6°C19.8°C	19.8°C	54	12.7	12.112 h
April	28.9°C20.6°C	20.6°C	96	16.6	12.412 h
May	28.7°C20.9°C	20.9°C	124	20.5	12.613 h
June	27.9°C20.8°C	20.8°C	118	21.4	12.713 h
July	27.7°C20.6°C	20.6°C	128	23.5	12.713 h
August	27.9°C20.7°C	20.7°C	152	25.6	12.512 h
September	28.3°C20.9°C	20.9°C	154	24.0	12.212 h
October	28.0°C20.9°C	20.9°C	179	25.7	11.912 h
November	27.0°C20.8°C	20.8°C	172	24.0	11.712 h
December	26.4°C20.0°C	20.0°C	89	19.6	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

Distance from Petare

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Petare) is explained once on the Petare year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.