Climate and average weather in Carora

In Carora, the weather is humid, sweltering, showery, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: late November to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Carora typically varies from 21°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 38°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Aug
36°
Coldest
Dec
22°
Wettest
Oct
66 mm
Driest
Jan
4 mm
Rain / yr
330 mm
58 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
420 m
10.2°N
Clearest
Jan
45% cloud

Carora is city in Venezuela.

Founded
1569

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

Carora 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Carora stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 36°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 22°C and high of 34°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3421
Feb3421
Mar3522
Apr3423
May3524
Jun3524
Jul3523
Aug3624
Sep3624
Oct3523
Nov3422
Dec3422

How hot and cold Carora 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, Carora feels like about 38°C (around September 13). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34342121
Feb35342121
Mar35352222
Apr36342323
May37352424
Jun37352424
Jul37352323
Aug38362424
Sep38362424
Oct37352323
Nov36342222
Dec35342222

Average hourly temperature in Carora

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 22°C.

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

Carora 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
Jan34° / 21°40.911.53.9
Feb34° / 21°81.311.73.5
Mar35° / 22°18311.93.1
Apr34° / 23°336.412.22.7
May35° / 24°386.212.52.5
Jun35° / 24°162.712.62.7
Jul35° / 23°141.912.52.7
Aug36° / 24°21412.32.2
Sep36° / 24°417.412.12.0
Oct35° / 23°6611.311.82.4
Nov34° / 22°579.611.53.0
Dec34° / 22°14311.43.7

Chance of rain

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

Carora gets about 330 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around Aug 23 to Dec 5, peaking in October at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 22.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 66 mm over about 11 wet days; January is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 27 · 40%Jan 22 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb51
Mar103
Apr226
May196
Jun93
Jul72
Aug134
Sep257
Oct3611
Nov3210
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Carora collects about 330 mm of rain across 58 wet days — roughly 27 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 66 mm, while January is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4818333816142141665714
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb81
Mar183
Apr336
May386
Jun163
Jul142
Aug214
Sep417
Oct6611
Nov5710
Dec143

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Carora, 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 26 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around March 23. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 24 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around July 19. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 19 · 71%Apr 21 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6238
Mar3961
Apr1486
May1387
Jun2278
Jul3268
Aug3466
Sep2278
Oct1981
Nov2872
Dec5248

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 1, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:366:04
Feb11.76:356:15
Mar11.96:226:18
Apr12.26:046:17
May12.55:536:21
Jun12.65:536:28
Jul12.56:006:32
Aug12.36:046:25
Sep12.16:036:06
Oct11.86:025:48
Nov11.56:105:41
Dec11.46:245:49

Sunny days

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

Carora averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 30 to Mar 24. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 2 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the January peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightJan 2315 daysApr 221 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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 Carora, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.2 months, from around April 8 to December 13. 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 December 14 to April 7, and February 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 2 · 19%Jun 11 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1664200
Feb1762191
Mar1551314
Apr3305511
May1196812
Jun032643
Jul046541
Aug041573
Sep028639
Oct0156420
Nov1136421
Dec644464

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 Carora is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around May 18 to Aug 22. The windiest month is June, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 23 to Dec 15, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 30 · 15 km/hOct 23 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun14light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep10calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec12calm

Best time to visit Carora

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 7 · 3.9

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb3.5fair
Mar3.1poor
Apr2.8poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.7poor
Aug2.2poor
Sep2.0poor
Oct2.4poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec3.7fair

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 Carora for hot-weather activities run from late June to mid July and again from late November to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 19 · 7.5

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 Carora, 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.

Carora packs about the same all year — highs hold near 36°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Carora sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Carora 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 Carora peaks around March 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 highMar 17UV 14Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Carora

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 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Carora 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 Carora is worst in May — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.7× the cleanest month (January, 10 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMay 2326 µg/m³Jan 1010 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Carora 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. Carora banks about 6,821 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)
Jan541
Feb496
Mar564
Apr558
May596
Jun580
Jul600
Aug615
Sep593
Oct585
Nov542
Dec550

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.

Carora receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseAug 146.3 kWhNov 285.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul6.2Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Carora?

Carora sits at 10.2°N, 70.1°W, 420 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is El Tocuyo, 53 km away.

CabudarePampánLos RastrojosPampanito

Topography around Carora

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Carora has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 160 m around an average of 429 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 526 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,396 m.

The land around Carora is covered by artificial surfaces (43%) and shrubs (40%) within 3 km, shrubs (62%) within 16 km, and shrubs (43%) and trees (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
160 m
16 km
526 m
80 km
3,396 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: El Tocuyo 53 km · Quíbor 57 km · Sanare 66 km · Barquisimeto 80 km · Cabudare 91 km · Pampán 92 km · Los Rastrojos 93 km · Pampanito 96 km

Venezuela travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 0% of US
price level, 2011
GDP per capita
$3,495
2025
Happiness
5.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
12.6
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
39
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 520
Religion
Roman Catholic 48%Protestant 32%none 14%believer 4%

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 Carora (10.1728°, -70.081°, elevation 420 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. 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).