Climate and average weather in Cacocum

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

Best: late November to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cacocum typically varies from 20°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 36°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Cacocum for warm-weather activities is from late November to late March.

Hottest
Aug
34°
Coldest
Jan
20°
Wettest
Sep
122 mm
Driest
Feb
15 mm
Rain / yr
756 mm
143 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
69 m
20.7°N
Clearest
Feb
35% cloud

Cacocum is municipality and city in the province of Holguín, Cuba.

Density
64/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Cacocum 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 late November to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cacocum stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 20°C and high of 29°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2920
Feb3020
Mar3021
Apr3122
May3223
Jun3324
Jul3425
Aug3425
Sep3324
Oct3224
Nov3022
Dec2921

How hot and cold Cacocum 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, Cacocum feels like about 39°C (around August 7). About 237 days a year carry some heat stress, and 17 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30292020
Feb31302020
Mar31302121
Apr33312222
May35322323
Jun37332424
Jul39342525
Aug39342525
Sep38332424
Oct36322424
Nov33302222
Dec31292121

Average hourly temperature in Cacocum

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 20°C.

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

Cacocum 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
Jan29° / 20°164.410.96.5
Feb30° / 20°153.611.36.2
Mar30° / 21°25611.95.5
Apr31° / 22°468.712.54.6
May32° / 23°11417133.5
Jun33° / 24°951713.23.0
Jul34° / 25°6515.213.12.8
Aug34° / 25°8316.412.72.6
Sep33° / 24°12219.412.12.7
Oct32° / 24°10218.611.53.4
Nov30° / 22°5311.2115.0
Dec29° / 21°225.510.86.2

Chance of rain

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

Cacocum gets about 756 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.3 months, from around May 2 to Nov 10, peaking in September at about 68% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 22.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 122 mm over about 19 wet days; February is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 26 · 68%Feb 22 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan144
Feb134
Mar196
Apr299
May5417
Jun5817
Jul4915
Aug5316
Sep6519
Oct6019
Nov3711
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cacocum collects about 756 mm of rain across 143 wet days — roughly 63 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 122 mm, while February is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161525461149565831221025322
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan164
Feb154
Mar256
Apr469
May11417
Jun9517
Jul6515
Aug8316
Sep12219
Oct10219
Nov5311
Dec226

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cacocum, 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 8 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around May 9. 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 10 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around November 7. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 22 · 88%Jun 6 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8614
Mar8317
Apr7921
May5446
Jun4357
Jul5743
Aug5446
Sep4456
Oct5050
Nov6832
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 16, brings about 13 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 10 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.96:495:41
Feb11.36:415:59
Mar11.96:196:11
Apr12.55:516:20
May13.05:326:31
Jun13.25:286:43
Jul13.15:376:45
Aug12.75:486:31
Sep12.15:566:03
Oct11.56:055:36
Nov11.06:215:20
Dec10.86:395:24

Sunny days

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

Cacocum averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Nov 9 to May 7. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 7 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1720 daysJun 35 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr15Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul11Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov13Mixed
Dec17Bright

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.

Cacocum is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is May, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 95% of the time. Even in February, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 13% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 5 · 15%May 19 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan29216260
Feb212285710
Mar19305630
Apr031761190
May01430641
Jun0002907
Jul0002936
Aug0001937
Sep00018811
Oct0017839
Nov01831582
Dec151354270

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 Cacocum is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Nov 3 to May 8. The windiest month is March, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 9 to Nov 2, with September the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 6 · 13 km/hSep 22 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul12calm
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Cacocum

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Cacocum

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Cacocum 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 Cacocum for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 6.5

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
Jan6.5good
Feb6.2good
Mar5.5good
Apr4.6fair
May3.5poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.6poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov5.0fair
Dec6.2good

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 Cacocum for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 30 · 8.4

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 Cacocum, 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.

Cacocum packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°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, Cacocum sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Cacocum

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 48 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb26Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr26Warm
May27Warm
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Cacocum 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 Cacocum peaks around June 17 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighJun 17UV 12Dec 14UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov7High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Cacocum

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan63.5
Feb74.5
Mar86
Apr86
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct75
Nov63
Dec5.52

Air quality in Cacocum 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 Cacocum is worst in June — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.5× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 2125 µg/m³Dec 157 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar10Good
Apr12Good
May14Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cacocum 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. Cacocum banks about 6,196 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)
Jan454
Feb418
Mar483
Apr501
May541
Jun552
Jul594
Aug599
Sep558
Oct545
Nov483
Dec469

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.

Cacocum receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Mar 5 to Sep 24. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 36.7 kWhDec 203.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.2Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Cacocum?

Cacocum sits at 20.7°N, 76.3°W, 69 m above sea level, in Cuba. The nearest listed city is Holguín, 18 km away.

Topography around Cacocum

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cacocum has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 20 m around an average of 68 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 200 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,710 m.

The land around Cacocum is covered by grassland (54%) and cropland (32%) within 3 km, grassland (63%) within 16 km, and trees (38%) and grassland (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
20 m
16 km
200 m
80 km
1,710 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Holguín 18 km · San Germán 25 km · Cauto Cristo 25 km · Jobabo 26 km · Jiguaní 42 km · Cueto 42 km · Gibara 46 km · Contramaestre 49 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 Cacocum (20.7368°, -76.3262°, elevation 69 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).