Climate and average weather in Venilale

In Venilale, 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 March.

Best: early July to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Venilale typically varies from 22°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 30°C. November is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Venilale for warm-weather activities is from early July to late October.

Hottest
Nov
29°
Coldest
Jul
22°
Wettest
Mar
191 mm
Driest
Sep
12 mm
Rain / yr
1302 mm
185 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
834 m
8.6°S
Clearest
Sep
42% cloud

Venilale 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 July to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Venilale stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is November, with an average high of 29°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 22°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

18°20°22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2825
Feb2825
Mar2825
Apr2824
May2724
Jun2623
Jul2622
Aug2622
Sep2722
Oct2824
Nov2925
Dec2925

How hot and cold Venilale 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, Venilale feels like about 33°C (around December 8). About 59 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in December.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32282525
Feb31282525
Mar31282525
Apr30282424
May27272424
Jun26262323
Jul26262222
Aug26262222
Sep28272222
Oct31282424
Nov32292525
Dec32292525

Average hourly temperature in Venilale

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 November afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 22°C.

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

Venilale 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° / 25°18826.812.43.4
Feb28° / 25°16324.412.33.4
Mar28° / 25°19124.412.14.0
Apr28° / 24°15419.311.84.9
May27° / 24°13417.111.65.5
Jun26° / 23°8613.211.56.2
Jul26° / 22°429.811.56.9
Aug26° / 22°154.311.77.8
Sep27° / 22°122.411.97.9
Oct28° / 24°314.812.26.9
Nov29° / 25°9712.912.45.2
Dec29° / 25°19025.712.53.5

Chance of rain

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

Venilale gets about 1302 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 6.4 months, from around Nov 20 to Jun 1, peaking in February at about 89% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 9.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 191 mm over about 24 wet days; September is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 26 · 89%Sep 9 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8727
Feb8724
Mar7824
Apr6419
May5517
Jun4413
Jul3110
Aug144
Sep82
Oct165
Nov4413
Dec8226

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Venilale collects about 1302 mm of rain across 185 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 191 mm, while September is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec188163191154134864215123197190
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18827
Feb16324
Mar19124
Apr15419
May13417
Jun8613
Jul4210
Aug154
Sep122
Oct315
Nov9713
Dec19026

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Venilale, 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 April 24 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around November 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 22 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 29 · 73%Jan 27 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb1783
Mar3169
Apr4159
May5347
Jun5644
Jul6436
Aug7228
Sep7129
Oct7030
Nov5545
Dec2575

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 January 1, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around May 28, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.46:306:57
Feb12.36:416:58
Mar12.16:426:46
Apr11.86:406:29
May11.66:436:19
Jun11.56:506:20
Jul11.56:546:26
Aug11.76:476:30
Sep11.96:306:27
Oct12.26:146:25
Nov12.46:086:32
Dec12.56:166:46

Sunny days

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

Venilale averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Jun 30 to Nov 23. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 2 sunny days — about 89% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 517 daysJan 272 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov11Mixed
Dec4Gloomy

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.

Venilale 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 January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in August, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 2% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0009010
Feb000937
Mar001936
Apr014923
May0223731
Jun11243440
Jul11963170
Aug21969100
Sep0566290
Oct0135640
Nov005905
Dec0008218

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 Venilale is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Apr 29 to Oct 7. The windiest month is June, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 8 to Apr 28, with December the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 29 · 12 km/hDec 8 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr8calm
May10calm
Jun12calm
Jul12calm
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Venilale

In seasonPeak

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

Venilale sits in the South Indian Ocean cyclone belt; the season peaks January–March.

Venilale's rainy season runs November–June, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Venilale

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Venilale 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 Venilale for general outdoor tourist activities is from early July to late October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 8.1

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb3.4poor
Mar4.0fair
Apr4.9fair
May5.5good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.9good
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.9ideal
Oct6.9good
Nov5.2fair
Dec3.5fair

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 Venilale for hot-weather activities is from mid July to mid November, with a peak score in the first week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 2 · 8.1

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 Venilale, 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.

Venilale 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 November, Venilale 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 Venilale

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 30 km away) is warmest in December at about 30°C and coldest in August 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
Jan29Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Tropical
Jul27Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct28Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec30Tropical

UV index (midday) in Venilale 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 Venilale peaks around March 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 11 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 10UV 15Jul 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Venilale

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun75
Jul74.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Venilale 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. Venilale banks about 5,689 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around December.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan516
Feb463
Mar505
Apr476
May472
Jun434
Jul431
Aug431
Sep441
Oct492
Nov505
Dec525

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.

Venilale receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Aug 17 to Dec 18. The brightest month is October, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 287.2 kWhJun 174.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.7Intense
Oct7.1Intense
Nov6.8Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Venilale?

Venilale sits at 8.6°S, 126.4°E, 834 m above sea level, in Timor Leste. The nearest listed city is Baucau, 20 km away.

BaucauLospalosDiliAileuGlenoAtsabeLiquiçáMaubara

Topography around Venilale

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Venilale has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 420 m around an average of 732 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,713 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,299 m.

The land around Venilale is covered by trees (57%) and grassland (41%) within 3 km, trees (74%) and grassland (24%) within 16 km, and water (59%) and trees (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
420 m
16 km
1,713 m
80 km
2,299 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Baucau 20 km · Lospalos 69 km · Dili 89 km · Aileu 90 km · Gleno 104 km · Atsabe 112 km · Liquiçá 114 km · Maubara 129 km

Timor Leste travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E / F / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 28% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,341
2025
Homicide rate
4.1
per 100k, 2015
Road deaths
11.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
Religion
Catholic 91%other 7%Protestant Evangelical 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 Venilale (-8.6431°, 126.3783°, elevation 834 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).