Climate and average weather in Bayamo

In Bayamo, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bayamo typically varies from 19°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Bayamo for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and late November to late December.

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Jan
19°
Wettest
May
188 mm
Driest
Feb
19 mm
Rain / yr
1145 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
55 m
20.4°N
Clearest
Feb
36% cloud

Bayamo weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bayamo, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Bayamo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 19°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2819
Feb2919
Mar2919
Apr3021
May3022
Jun3122
Jul3223
Aug3223
Sep3123
Oct3022
Nov2921
Dec2819

How hot and cold Bayamo really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Bayamo feels like about 36°C (around August 6). About 190 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29281919
Feb29291919
Mar30291919
Apr31302121
May33302222
Jun35312222
Jul36322323
Aug36322323
Sep35312323
Oct33302222
Nov31292121
Dec29281919

Average hourly temperature in Bayamo

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 19°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bayamo weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan28° / 19°204.510.97.2
Feb29° / 19°194.111.36.6
Mar29° / 19°377.211.95.9
Apr30° / 21°679.912.55.0
May30° / 22°18819.5133.8
Jun31° / 22°1492113.23.2
Jul32° / 23°1232113.13.1
Aug32° / 23°13522.712.72.9
Sep31° / 23°17023.612.13.0
Oct30° / 22°14821.511.53.7
Nov29° / 21°6010.3115.6
Dec28° / 19°285.310.86.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bayamo gets about 1145 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.0 months, from around May 2 to Nov 1, peaking in September at about 80% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 28.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 188 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 19 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 22 · 80%Jan 28 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan145
Feb154
Mar227
Apr3410
May6220
Jun7121
Jul6821
Aug7323
Sep7924
Oct6822
Nov3510
Dec185

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bayamo collects about 1145 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 188 mm, while February is the driest at just 19 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec201937671881491231351701486028
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan205
Feb194
Mar377
Apr6710
May18820
Jun14921
Jul12321
Aug13523
Sep17024
Oct14822
Nov6010
Dec285

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bayamo, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 5 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around May 10. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 11 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around November 4. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 62% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 20 · 88%Jun 7 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8218
Feb8614
Mar8218
Apr7624
May5347
Jun3862
Jul4951
Aug4753
Sep3862
Oct4753
Nov6634
Dec7822

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 2, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.96:495:43
Feb11.36:426:00
Mar11.96:216:12
Apr12.55:536:21
May13.05:346:32
Jun13.25:306:44
Jul13.15:386:46
Aug12.75:506:32
Sep12.15:576:04
Oct11.56:065:37
Nov11.06:215:22
Dec10.86:405:26

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bayamo averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Nov 2 to Apr 29. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 5 sunny days — about 75% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1619 daysJun 43 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr12Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
Dec18Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Bayamo, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.7 months, from around April 22 to December 11. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 12 to April 21, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 18% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 3 · 22%Jun 3 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan412434200
Feb416512900
Mar315443800
Apr17325370
May02845450
Jun00013870
Jul00015840
Aug00010900
Sep0004951
Oct00115831
Nov021247390
Dec16236360

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Bayamo is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 28 to Apr 29. The windiest month is December, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 30 to Oct 27, with September the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 28 · 9 km/hSep 19 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Bayamo

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Bayamo sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Bayamo's rainy season runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Atlantic hurricane
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Bayamo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bayamo throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Bayamo is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bayamo for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 13 · 7.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.2good
Feb6.6good
Mar5.9good
Apr5.0fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov5.6good
Dec6.8good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bayamo for hot-weather activities is from early November to late April, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 20 · 8.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bayamo, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Bayamo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Bayamo sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Bayamo

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 50 km away) is warmest in August at about 31°C and coldest in January near 25°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr27Warm
May29Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug31Tropical
Sep31Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Bayamo by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bayamo peaks around August 18 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 7 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighAug 18UV 12Dec 13UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov7High
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Bayamo

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.53.5
Feb74.5
Mar86
Apr86
May8.56
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep86
Oct75
Nov63
Dec5.52.5

Air quality in Bayamo by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bayamo is worst in June — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.4× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 2026 µg/m³Dec 178 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar11Good
Apr12Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun27Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bayamo is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bayamo banks about 5,646 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan412
Feb383
Mar445
Apr463
May497
Jun502
Jul536
Aug538
Sep504
Oct496
Nov443
Dec427

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bayamo receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Mar 1 to Sep 20. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 36.6 kWhDec 144.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.6Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Bayamo?

Bayamo sits at 20.4°N, 76.6°W, 55 m above sea level, in Cuba. The nearest listed city is Guisa, 17 km away.

Topography around Bayamo

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bayamo.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bayamo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 39 m around an average of 54 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 336 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,887 m.

The land around Bayamo is covered by grassland (34%), artificial surfaces (30%) and trees (29%) within 3 km, grassland (49%) and trees (33%) within 16 km, and trees (38%), grassland (29%) and water (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
39 m
16 km
336 m
80 km
1,887 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Guisa 17 km · Jiguaní 22 km · Cauto Cristo 27 km · Yara 34 km · Río Cauto 35 km · Bartolomé Masó 39 km · Contramaestre 42 km · Manzanillo 50 km

Cuba travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B / C / L
110 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 39% of US
price level, 2011
GDP per capita
$9,605
2020
Happiness
5.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2011
Homicide rate
4.5
per 100k, 2019
Road deaths
8.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 515
Religion
Christian 59%none 23%folk religion 18%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bayamo (20.3737°, -76.6427°, elevation 55 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).