Climate and average weather in Yauco

In Yauco, 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 September.

Best: early January to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yauco typically varies from 22°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 31°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Feb
22°
Wettest
Sep
127 mm
Driest
Jan
15 mm
Rain / yr
741 mm
145 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
40 m
18.0°N
Clearest
Jan
37% cloud

Yauco 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 late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Yauco stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is February, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2722
Feb2722
Mar2722
Apr2723
May2824
Jun2924
Jul2925
Aug2925
Sep2925
Oct2824
Nov2823
Dec2723

How hot and cold Yauco 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, Yauco feels like about 33°C (around August 13). About 94 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan27272222
Feb27272222
Mar27272222
Apr28272323
May30282424
Jun32292424
Jul33292525
Aug33292525
Sep32292525
Oct31282424
Nov30282323
Dec29272323

Average hourly temperature in Yauco

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 22°C.

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

Yauco 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° / 22°154.4117.8
Feb27° / 22°194.511.47.7
Mar27° / 22°357.511.97.1
Apr27° / 23°5511.212.46.4
May28° / 24°9215.412.85.6
Jun29° / 24°5313.213.15.2
Jul29° / 25°6013.3135.1
Aug29° / 25°8517.412.64.5
Sep29° / 25°12720.112.14.3
Oct28° / 24°10619.511.64.6
Nov28° / 23°7313.111.26.0
Dec27° / 23°22510.97.5

Chance of rain

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

Yauco gets about 741 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 6.9 months, from around Apr 23 to Nov 19, peaking in September at about 69% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 127 mm over about 20 wet days; January is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 24 · 69%Jan 1 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan144
Feb165
Mar258
Apr3811
May4815
Jun4513
Jul4313
Aug5617
Sep6620
Oct6320
Nov4413
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yauco collects about 741 mm of rain across 145 wet days — roughly 62 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 127 mm, while January is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15193555925360851271067322
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan154
Feb195
Mar358
Apr5511
May9215
Jun5313
Jul6013
Aug8517
Sep12720
Oct10620
Nov7313
Dec225

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yauco, 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 17 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around April 30. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 1 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around November 16. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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 10 · 91%Sep 25 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb8911
Mar8020
Apr7327
May5050
Jun5347
Jul6139
Aug5545
Sep4555
Oct5050
Nov6733
Dec8218

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 10, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.07:066:08
Feb11.47:006:24
Mar11.96:416:33
Apr12.46:156:40
May12.85:586:49
Jun13.15:557:00
Jul13.06:037:03
Aug12.66:136:50
Sep12.16:196:25
Oct11.66:256:00
Nov11.26:395:47
Dec10.96:565:51

Sunny days

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

Yauco averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Nov 17 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 1020 daysMay 236 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov13Mixed
Dec19Bright

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.

Yauco 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 April, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 92% of the time. Even in March, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 4% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1167940
Feb3237130
Mar4197350
Apr0866260
May0126721
Jun007922
Jul006931
Aug002953
Sep001945
Oct003952
Nov0226720
Dec0767250

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 Yauco is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around May 3 to Aug 22. The windiest month is June, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 23 to Dec 11, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJun 30 · 18 km/hOct 17 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Yauco

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Yauco sees seasonal dust haze (July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Yauco

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 3 · 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
Feb7.6ideal
Mar7.1good
Apr6.4good
May5.6good
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug4.5fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct4.6fair
Nov6.0good
Dec7.5ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Yauco for hot-weather activities run from mid June to late July and again from mid November to late April, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 8.0

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 Yauco, 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.

Yauco packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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, Yauco sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 13 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Yauco

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 18 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°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°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr27Warm
May28Warm
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Yauco 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 Yauco peaks around April 13 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 13UV 13Dec 15UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Yauco

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 April 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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug8.56
Sep7.55.5
Oct75
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Yauco 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 Yauco is worst in July — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.8× the cleanest month (January, 5 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1025 µg/m³Jan 15 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan5Good
Feb7Good
Mar7Good
Apr8Good
May15Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec5Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yauco 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. Yauco banks about 5,706 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)
Jan447
Feb401
Mar446
Apr445
May485
Jun496
Jul525
Aug526
Sep500
Oct503
Nov468
Dec463

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.

Yauco receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Feb 28 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 296.7 kWhDec 194.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.5Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Yauco?

Yauco sits at 18.0°N, 66.8°W, 40 m above sea level, in Puerto Rico. The nearest listed city is San Germán, 21 km away.

San GermánLa PargueraPonceMayagüezAreciboAguadillaBarcelonetaManatí

Topography around Yauco

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yauco has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 215 m around an average of 79 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,191 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,307 m.

The land around Yauco is covered by trees (56%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, trees (60%) and water (21%) within 16 km, and water (60%) and trees (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
215 m
16 km
1,191 m
80 km
1,307 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: San Germán 21 km · La Parguera 22 km · Ponce 24 km · Mayagüez 36 km · Arecibo 51 km · Aguadilla 54 km · Barceloneta 57 km · Manatí 58 km

Puerto Rico travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 78% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$40,620
2025
Happiness
7.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2015
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
14.6
per 100k, 2023
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Roman Catholic 56%Protestant 33%none 7%other 2%

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 Yauco (18.035°, -66.8499°, elevation 40 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).