Climate and average weather in Ciudad Bolívar

In Ciudad Bolívar, the weather is humid, sweltering, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around July.

Best: late November to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ciudad Bolívar typically varies from 23°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 37°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ciudad Bolívar for warm-weather activities is from late November to late February.

Hottest
Apr
35°
Coldest
Jul
23°
Wettest
Jul
233 mm
Driest
Feb
10 mm
Rain / yr
1230 mm
159 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
73 m
8.1°N
Clearest
Jan
59% cloud

Ciudad Bolívar is city in Bolívar, Venezuela.

Density
1,035/km²
people per km²
Founded
1764

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

Ciudad Bolívar 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 February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ciudad Bolívar stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 35°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3323
Feb3323
Mar3524
Apr3525
May3425
Jun3224
Jul3123
Aug3123
Sep3224
Oct3324
Nov3324
Dec3223

How hot and cold Ciudad Bolívar 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, Ciudad Bolívar feels like about 38°C (around April 23). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35332323
Feb35332323
Mar36352424
Apr38352525
May37342425
Jun36322424
Jul35312323
Aug36312323
Sep37322424
Oct37332424
Nov37332424
Dec35322323

Average hourly temperature in Ciudad Bolívar

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 April afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 23°C.

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

Ciudad Bolívar 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
Jan33° / 23°133.111.64.3
Feb33° / 23°101.811.73.8
Mar35° / 24°122.311.93.1
Apr35° / 25°50612.22.6
May34° / 25°13915.312.42.7
Jun32° / 24°20123.212.52.8
Jul31° / 23°23325.912.42.9
Aug31° / 23°22124.912.32.8
Sep32° / 24°13818.8123.1
Oct33° / 24°10415.811.83.1
Nov33° / 24°7413.911.63.3
Dec32° / 23°378.311.54.0

Chance of rain

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

Ciudad Bolívar gets about 1230 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 6.4 months, from around May 12 to Nov 22, peaking in July at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 17.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 233 mm over about 26 wet days; February is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 28 · 86%Feb 17 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan113
Feb72
Mar82
Apr216
May4815
Jun7623
Jul8426
Aug8125
Sep6319
Oct5116
Nov4614
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ciudad Bolívar collects about 1230 mm of rain across 159 wet days — roughly 103 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 233 mm, while February is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec131012501392012332211381047437
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan133
Feb102
Mar122
Apr506
May13915
Jun20123
Jul23326
Aug22125
Sep13819
Oct10416
Nov7414
Dec378

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ciudad Bolívar, 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 August 20 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around April 2. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 3 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around August 19. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% 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 13 · 54%Jun 9 · 22%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4753
Mar4159
Apr3367
May2575
Jun2476
Jul3070
Aug3664
Sep4357
Oct4060
Nov4060
Dec4456

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 6, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan11.66:065:41
Feb11.76:075:51
Mar11.95:565:52
Apr12.25:395:50
May12.45:295:52
Jun12.55:305:59
Jul12.45:376:03
Aug12.35:405:56
Sep12.05:375:40
Oct11.85:355:24
Nov11.65:415:18
Dec11.55:545:26

Sunny days

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

Ciudad Bolívar 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 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.9 months, from around Aug 19 to Nov 14. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is June, down near 3 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the September peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 47 daysJun 202 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Ciudad Bolívar 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 March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 68% of the time. Even in March, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserablemuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan11764190
Feb1276470
Mar1316080
Apr02153232
May0830539
Jun017848
Jul001928
Aug0008218
Sep0037622
Oct0077815
Nov0011809
Dec0439561

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 Ciudad Bolívar is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Nov 23 to May 18. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 19 to Nov 22, with August the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 21 · 16 km/hAug 7 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May11calm
Jun9calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Ciudad Bolívar

In seasonPeak

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

Ciudad Bolívar's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Ciudad Bolívar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Ciudad Bolívar 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 Ciudad Bolívar for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to early March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 8 · 4.3

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.1poor
Apr2.6poor
May2.7poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.1poor
Nov3.3poor
Dec4.0fair

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 Ciudad Bolívar for hot-weather activities is from late November to early April, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 16 · 7.2

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 Ciudad Bolívar, 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.

Ciudad Bolívar packs about the same all year — highs hold near 35°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Ciudad Bolívar sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ciudad Bolívar 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 Ciudad Bolívar peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 19UV 14Dec 14UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ciudad Bolívar

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
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Ciudad Bolívar 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 Ciudad Bolívar is worst in April — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (November, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1626 µg/m³Nov 2012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep12Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ciudad Bolívar 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. Ciudad Bolívar banks about 6,633 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan550
Feb512
Mar595
Apr595
May589
Jun527
Jul528
Aug537
Sep538
Oct568
Nov545
Dec549

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.

Ciudad Bolívar receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.7 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 306.0 kWhDec 144.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Ciudad Bolívar?

Ciudad Bolívar sits at 8.1°N, 63.5°W, 73 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Soledad, 5.0 km away.

Ciudad GuayanaSan José de GuanipaEl TigreUpataTembladorLa Paragua

Topography around Ciudad Bolívar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ciudad Bolívar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 72 m around an average of 40 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 140 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 768 m.

The land around Ciudad Bolívar is covered by artificial surfaces (52%) and trees (26%) within 3 km, grassland (59%) and trees (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (70%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
72 m
16 km
140 m
80 km
768 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Soledad 5.0 km · Ciudad Piar 79 km · Ciudad Guayana 103 km · San José de Guanipa 109 km · El Tigre 115 km · Upata 126 km · Temblador 139 km · La Paragua 145 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 Ciudad Bolívar (8.1237°, -63.5469°, elevation 73 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).