Climate and average weather in Jiguaní

In Jiguaní, 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: late November to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jiguaní typically varies from 18°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 33°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 Jiguaní for warm-weather activities is from late November to late March.

Hottest
Aug
31°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
May
197 mm
Driest
Feb
27 mm
Rain / yr
1187 mm
183 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
137 m
20.4°N
Clearest
Feb
37% cloud

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

Temperatures in Jiguaní stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 31°C and low of 23°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 year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2718
Feb2818
Mar2819
Apr2920
May3021
Jun3022
Jul3122
Aug3123
Sep3122
Oct3022
Nov2820
Dec2719

How hot and cold Jiguaní 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, Jiguaní feels like about 35°C (around August 7). About 155 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)
Jan28271818
Feb28281818
Mar29281919
Apr30292020
May32302121
Jun34302222
Jul35312222
Aug35312223
Sep34312222
Oct33302222
Nov30282020
Dec28271919

Average hourly temperature in Jiguaní

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

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

Jiguaní 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°296.510.97.3
Feb28° / 18°275.411.37.2
Mar28° / 19°528.811.96.2
Apr29° / 20°8211.812.55.2
May30° / 21°19720.3134.0
Jun30° / 22°14120.713.23.5
Jul31° / 22°11020.413.13.3
Aug31° / 23°12321.812.73.1
Sep31° / 22°16523.912.13.1
Oct30° / 22°14922.411.53.8
Nov28° / 20°7512.9115.7
Dec27° / 19°39810.87.0

Chance of rain

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

Jiguaní gets about 1187 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 6.2 months, from around Apr 30 to Nov 5, peaking in September at about 81% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 3.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 197 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 27 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 19 · 81%Feb 3 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan217
Feb205
Mar289
Apr4012
May6420
Jun7021
Jul6520
Aug7022
Sep8024
Oct7122
Nov4313
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jiguaní collects about 1187 mm of rain across 183 wet days — roughly 99 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 197 mm, while February is the driest at just 27 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec292752821971411101231651497539
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan297
Feb275
Mar529
Apr8212
May19720
Jun14121
Jul11020
Aug12322
Sep16524
Oct14922
Nov7513
Dec398

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jiguaní, 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 84% 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 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 20 · 86%Jun 6 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb8416
Mar7921
Apr7327
May5149
Jun3763
Jul4951
Aug4753
Sep3763
Oct4555
Nov6436
Dec7426

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)
Jan10.96:485:42
Feb11.36:416:00
Mar11.96:206:11
Apr12.55:526:20
May13.05:336:31
Jun13.25:296:43
Jul13.15:386:45
Aug12.75:496:31
Sep12.15:576:03
Oct11.56:055:36
Nov11.06:205:21
Dec10.86:395:25

Sunny days

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

Jiguaní averages about 10 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 5.7 months, from around Nov 6 to Apr 26. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1319 daysJun 33 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov11Mixed
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 Jiguaní, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.9 months, from around April 16 to December 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 11 to April 15, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 17% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 7 · 20%May 23 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan31245400
Feb31553290
Mar21446380
Apr0533574
May0195238
Jun0002080
Jul0002179
Aug0001684
Sep000991
Oct0012079
Nov02125234
Dec1624645

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.

Wind in Jiguaní is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 9 · 8 km/hSep 17 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Jiguaní

In seasonPeak

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

Jiguaní 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 Jiguaní

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Jiguaní is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 1 · 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
Jan7.3good
Feb7.1good
Mar6.2good
Apr5.2fair
May4.0fair
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov5.7good
Dec7.0good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 23 · 7.8

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 Jiguaní, 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.

Jiguaní packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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, Jiguaní sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Jiguaní

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 55 km away) is warmest in September at about 30°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

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

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr28Warm
May28Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Jiguaní 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 Jiguaní peaks around June 12 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 highHighJun 12UV 12Dec 13UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov7High
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Jiguaní

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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb74.5
Mar86
Apr86
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep86
Oct75
Nov63
Dec62.5

Air quality in Jiguaní 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 Jiguaní 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

Jiguaní 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. Jiguaní banks about 5,437 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan391
Feb362
Mar421
Apr440
May478
Jun487
Jul522
Aug526
Sep493
Oct483
Nov426
Dec407

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.

Jiguaní 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 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 46.6 kWhDec 164.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.6Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Jiguaní?

Jiguaní sits at 20.4°N, 76.4°W, 137 m above sea level, in Cuba. The nearest listed city is Guisa, 17 km away.

Topography around Jiguaní

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jiguaní has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 99 m around an average of 121 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 468 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,887 m.

The land around Jiguaní is covered by grassland (42%) and trees (34%) within 3 km, grassland (43%) and trees (42%) within 16 km, and trees (41%) and grassland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
99 m
16 km
468 m
80 km
1,887 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Guisa 17 km · Contramaestre 21 km · Cauto Cristo 21 km · Bayamo 22 km · San Germán 40 km · Cacocum 42 km · Palma Soriano 49 km · Río Cauto 55 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 Jiguaní (20.3684°, -76.4291°, elevation 137 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).