Climate and average weather in Cúa

In Cúa, the weather is hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cúa typically varies from 18°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 33°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
31°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
May
126 mm
Driest
Feb
15 mm
Rain / yr
951 mm
187 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
251 m
10.2°N
Clearest
Jan
50% cloud

Cúa is city in Miranda, Venezuela; seat of Urdaneta Municipality.

Density
669/km²
people per km²

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

Cúa 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cúa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 31°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2918
Feb3018
Mar3119
Apr3020
May3020
Jun2820
Jul2819
Aug2819
Sep2919
Oct2919
Nov2919
Dec2919

Average hourly temperature in Cúa

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 March afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 19°C.

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

Cúa 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
Jan29° / 18°16511.56.2
Feb30° / 18°154.611.75.7
Mar31° / 19°34611.94.9
Apr30° / 20°9213.612.24.1
May30° / 20°12619.212.53.9
Jun28° / 20°12221.912.64.0
Jul28° / 19°11523.812.54.0
Aug28° / 19°12125.912.33.7
Sep29° / 19°10221.812.13.8
Oct29° / 19°9519.811.84.0
Nov29° / 19°8416.811.54.4
Dec29° / 19°298.511.45.7

Chance of rain

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

Cúa gets about 951 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 7.1 months, from around Apr 20 to Nov 22, peaking in August at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 126 mm over about 19 wet days; February is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 6 · 86%Jan 25 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb165
Mar216
Apr4514
May6219
Jun7222
Jul7724
Aug8326
Sep7322
Oct6420
Nov5517
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cúa collects about 951 mm of rain across 187 wet days — roughly 79 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 126 mm, while February is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec16153492126122115121102958429
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan165
Feb155
Mar346
Apr9214
May12619
Jun12222
Jul11524
Aug12126
Sep10222
Oct9520
Nov8417
Dec299

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cúa, 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 23 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around March 27. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 28 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around November 22. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 11 · 68%May 10 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb5941
Mar4258
Apr1783
May1585
Jun2080
Jul2773
Aug2872
Sep2476
Oct2476
Nov3070
Dec5149

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 2, 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)
Jan11.56:235:51
Feb11.76:226:02
Mar11.96:096:05
Apr12.25:516:04
May12.55:406:08
Jun12.65:406:15
Jul12.55:476:19
Aug12.35:516:12
Sep12.15:505:54
Oct11.85:495:36
Nov11.55:575:29
Dec11.46:115:36

Sunny days

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

Cúa averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Nov 28 to Mar 25. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 2 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2912 daysApr 181 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.1 months, from around April 13 to December 14. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 15 to April 12, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 21% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 27 · 25%May 21 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan02163160
Feb12067110
Mar02058220
Apr0641513
May0122708
Jun0013834
Jul008902
Aug003952
Sep004942
Oct007912
Nov0014851
Dec0844480

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Dec 2 to Apr 24. The windiest month is February, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 25 to Dec 1, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 16 · 8 km/hOct 10 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Cúa

In seasonPeak

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

Cúa'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 Cúa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Cúa 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 Cúa 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 · 6.3

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
Jan6.2good
Feb5.7good
Mar4.9fair
Apr4.1fair
May3.9fair
Jun4.0fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct4.0fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec5.7good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 24 · 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 Cúa, 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.

Cúa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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 March, Cúa sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Cúa

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 51 km away) 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
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar25Warm
Apr26Warm
May27Warm
Jun27Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug28Warm
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Cúa 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 Cúa peaks around March 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 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 18UV 14Dec 10UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Cúa

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
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Cúa 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 Cúa 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

Cúa 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. Cúa banks about 5,154 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan418
Feb390
Mar455
Apr449
May456
Jun419
Jul424
Aug425
Sep422
Oct444
Nov427
Dec425

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.

Cúa receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.7 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 215.9 kWhNov 284.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Cúa?

Cúa sits at 10.2°N, 66.9°W, 251 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Charallave, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Cúa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cúa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 186 m around an average of 257 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,303 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,727 m.

The land around Cúa is covered by trees (40%) and artificial surfaces (30%) within 3 km, trees (70%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) within 80 km.

3 km
186 m
16 km
1,303 m
80 km
2,727 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Charallave 9.0 km · Ocumare del Tuy 13 km · Lander 20 km · Carrizal 24 km · Santa Teresa del Tuy 25 km · San Antonio de Los Altos 26 km · Los Teques 27 km · El Hatillo 30 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 Cúa (10.1624°, -66.8825°, elevation 251 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).