Climate and average weather in Calimete

In Calimete, 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 June.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Calimete typically varies from 18°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 35°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
Jun
174 mm
Driest
Dec
16 mm
Rain / yr
981 mm
136 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
23 m
22.5°N
Clearest
Feb
34% cloud

Calimete is municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.

Density
24/km²
people per km²
Founded
1867

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

Calimete 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 Calimete, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Calimete stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 18°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2718
Feb2818
Mar3019
Apr3121
May3223
Jun3224
Jul3324
Aug3324
Sep3224
Oct3023
Nov2920
Dec2819

How hot and cold Calimete 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, Calimete feels like about 38°C (around August 16). About 205 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28271818
Feb29281818
Mar30301919
Apr32312121
May34322323
Jun36322424
Jul38332424
Aug38332424
Sep37322424
Oct34302323
Nov30292020
Dec29281919

Average hourly temperature in Calimete

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 July afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

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

Calimete 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
Jan27° / 18°233.610.87.7
Feb28° / 18°202.311.27.3
Mar30° / 19°223.711.86.2
Apr31° / 21°385.612.54.9
May32° / 23°12914.413.13.8
Jun32° / 24°17420.613.42.9
Jul33° / 24°11619.113.22.8
Aug33° / 24°13820.712.82.7
Sep32° / 24°1642212.12.9
Oct30° / 23°11315.811.54.2
Nov29° / 20°31510.96.4
Dec28° / 19°162.710.67.6

Chance of rain

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

Calimete gets about 981 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 5.5 months, from around May 12 to Oct 25, peaking in September at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 10.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 174 mm over about 21 wet days; December is the driest, with 16 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 13 · 74%Feb 10 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan114
Feb92
Mar124
Apr196
May4714
Jun6721
Jul6319
Aug6621
Sep7322
Oct5116
Nov175
Dec93

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Calimete collects about 981 mm of rain across 136 wet days — roughly 82 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 174 mm, while December is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec232022381291741161381641133116
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan234
Feb202
Mar224
Apr386
May12914
Jun17421
Jul11619
Aug13821
Sep16422
Oct11316
Nov315
Dec163

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Calimete, 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 1 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 15. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 16 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 31. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% 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 19 · 87%Jun 10 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb8416
Mar8317
Apr7822
May6040
Jun3763
Jul4555
Aug4654
Sep4159
Oct5149
Nov7030
Dec7327

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 11, brings about 13 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.87:105:56
Feb11.27:016:15
Mar11.86:386:28
Apr12.56:086:39
May13.15:486:52
Jun13.45:437:05
Jul13.25:527:07
Aug12.86:046:51
Sep12.16:146:22
Oct11.56:255:53
Nov10.96:425:36
Dec10.67:015:39

Sunny days

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

Calimete averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.5 months, from around Oct 29 to May 14. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 5 sunny days — about 74% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1921 daysJun 84 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr16Bright
May11Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
Nov15Mixed
Dec16Bright

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 Calimete, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around April 24 to November 25. 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 November 26 to April 23, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 30% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 22 · 33%Jun 1 · 0%miserablehumidoppressivemuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1417264120
Feb1318284020
Mar920333540
Apr3122842150
May021037491
Jun0005878
Jul0001919
Aug00018416
Sep00018118
Oct01516708
Nov182037341
Dec7132247110

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 Calimete is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Oct 17 to May 8. The windiest month is November, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 9 to Oct 16, with September the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 11 · 12 km/hSep 5 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12calm
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Calimete

In seasonPeak

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

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

Calimete'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 Calimete

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Calimete 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 Calimete for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 31 · 7.8

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
Jan7.7ideal
Feb7.3good
Mar6.2good
Apr5.0fair
May3.8fair
Jun2.9poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.7poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct4.2fair
Nov6.4good
Dec7.6ideal

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 Calimete for hot-weather activities is from late October to late April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 8.6

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 Calimete, 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.

Calimete packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°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 July, Calimete sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Calimete

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 51 km away) is warmest in August at about 30°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°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb26Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr27Warm
May28Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Calimete 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 Calimete peaks around June 14 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 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 14UV 12Dec 16UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb9Very high
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov7High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Calimete

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)
Jan62.5
Feb6.54
Mar7.55.5
Apr85.5
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct74.5
Nov5.52
Dec50

Air quality in Calimete 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 Calimete is worst in July — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.5× the cleanest month (December, 6 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1221 µg/m³Dec 116 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb8Good
Mar10Good
Apr12Good
May12Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov6Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Calimete 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. Calimete banks about 5,795 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)
Jan390
Feb370
Mar444
Apr483
May530
Jun537
Jul572
Aug574
Sep531
Oct511
Nov437
Dec415

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.

Calimete receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 2 to Sep 17. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

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

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 146.6 kWhDec 193.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.5Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Calimete?

Calimete sits at 22.5°N, 80.9°W, 23 m above sea level, in Cuba. The nearest listed city is Aguada de Pasajeros, 18 km away.

Topography around Calimete

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Calimete has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 25 m around an average of 25 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 65 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 299 m.

The land around Calimete is covered by cropland (49%), grassland (27%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, trees (48%), grassland (29%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (33%), water (23%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
25 m
16 km
65 m
80 km
299 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Aguada de Pasajeros 18 km · Colón 21 km · Jagüey Grande 22 km · Perico 28 km · Jovellanos 42 km · Rodas 42 km · Pedro Betancourt 44 km · Abreus 45 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 Calimete (22.5342°, -80.9111°, elevation 23 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).