Climate and average weather in Catia La Mar

In Catia La Mar, the weather is humid, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Catia La Mar typically varies from 19°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Dec
20°
Wettest
Oct
214 mm
Driest
Feb
26 mm
Rain / yr
1431 mm
218 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
9 m
10.6°N
Clearest
Jan
51% cloud

Catia La Mar is City in Venezuela.

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

Catia La Mar 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Catia La Mar stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 20°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2819
Feb2919
Mar3020
Apr3021
May3021
Jun2921
Jul2921
Aug2921
Sep2921
Oct2921
Nov2821
Dec2820

Average hourly temperature in Catia La Mar

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 May afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 20°C.

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

Catia La Mar 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° / 19°29911.46.1
Feb29° / 19°26711.65.8
Mar30° / 20°488.811.95.2
Apr30° / 21°1201612.24.1
May30° / 21°14519.612.53.7
Jun29° / 21°1071912.64.0
Jul29° / 21°13022.312.63.8
Aug29° / 21°18225.512.33.5
Sep29° / 21°19125.112.13.3
Oct29° / 21°2142711.83.3
Nov28° / 21°17924.111.53.8
Dec28° / 20°6114.911.45.4

Chance of rain

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

Catia La Mar gets about 1431 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 7.4 months, from around Apr 26 to Dec 5, peaking in October at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 14.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 214 mm over about 27 wet days; February is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 25 · 88%Feb 14 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb257
Mar309
Apr5316
May6320
Jun6419
Jul7222
Aug8226
Sep8425
Oct8727
Nov8024
Dec4815

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Catia La Mar collects about 1431 mm of rain across 218 wet days — roughly 119 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 214 mm, while February is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec29264812014510713018219121417961
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan299
Feb267
Mar489
Apr12016
May14520
Jun10719
Jul13022
Aug18226
Sep19125
Oct21427
Nov17924
Dec6115

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Catia La Mar, 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 29 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 29. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 65% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 30 and lasts for 8.0 months, ending around November 28. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% 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 12 · 66%May 8 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb6139
Mar4456
Apr1981
May1783
Jun2278
Jul2971
Aug2971
Sep2476
Oct2278
Nov2773
Dec4753

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 May 27, 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)
Jan11.46:245:51
Feb11.66:236:02
Mar11.96:106:06
Apr12.25:516:05
May12.55:406:09
Jun12.65:406:17
Jul12.65:476:21
Aug12.35:526:13
Sep12.15:515:54
Oct11.85:505:36
Nov11.55:585:29
Dec11.46:135:36

Sunny days

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

Catia La Mar averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Nov 30 to Mar 30. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 2 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2911 daysApr 202 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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.

Catia La Mar 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 73% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan554401
Feb563301
Mar553412
Apr1266013
May0156025
Jun087714
Jul068410
Aug018019
Sep017029
Oct006436
Nov026632
Dec122698

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 Catia La Mar is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Dec 1 to Apr 27. The windiest month is February, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 3 to Nov 30, with September the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 18 · 8 km/hSep 19 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Catia La Mar

In seasonPeak

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

Catia La Mar's rainy season runs April–November, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Catia La Mar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Catia La Mar 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 Catia La Mar for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to late March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 8 · 6.1

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
Jan6.1good
Feb5.8good
Mar5.2fair
Apr4.1fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.8fair
Dec5.4fair

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 Catia La Mar for hot-weather activities is from mid December to early April, with a peak score in the second week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 11 · 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 Catia La Mar, 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.

Catia La Mar packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 May, Catia La Mar sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Catia La Mar

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 25°C.

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

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr26Warm
May27Warm
Jun27Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug28Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Catia La Mar 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 Catia La Mar peaks around March 21 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 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 21UV 14Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Catia La Mar

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 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)
Jan75
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54.5

Air quality in Catia La Mar 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 Catia La Mar is worst in June — around 33 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.5× the cleanest month (January, 13 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1133 µg/m³Jan 1113 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun33Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct21Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec14Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Catia La Mar 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. Catia La Mar banks about 5,386 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan425
Feb396
Mar458
Apr457
May482
Jun456
Jul465
Aug465
Sep456
Oct462
Nov432
Dec430

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.

Catia La Mar receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.9 and 6.2 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 226.2 kWhNov 304.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Catia La Mar?

Catia La Mar sits at 10.6°N, 67.0°W, 9 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Maiquetía, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Catia La Mar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Catia La Mar has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 375 m around an average of 50 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,988 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,727 m.

The land around Catia La Mar is covered by water (50%) and artificial surfaces (28%) within 3 km, water (55%) and trees (27%) within 16 km, and trees (47%) and water (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
375 m
16 km
1,988 m
80 km
2,727 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Maiquetía 8.0 km · La Guaira 11 km · Caraballeda 20 km · Caracas 21 km · Chacao 23 km · Los Dos Caminos 25 km · Baruta 26 km · San Antonio de Los Altos 26 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 Catia La Mar (10.6054°, -67.0324°, elevation 9 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. 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).