Climate and average weather in Duaca

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

Best: early December to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Duaca typically varies from 19°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 18°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 Duaca for warm-weather activities are from early June to late August and early December to late March.

Hottest
Mar
30°
Coldest
Jul
20°
Wettest
Apr
71 mm
Driest
Feb
15 mm
Rain / yr
531 mm
130 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
733 m
10.3°N
Clearest
Jan
55% cloud

Duaca 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 December to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Duaca stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 30°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 20°C and high of 29°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2919
Feb3019
Mar3020
Apr3020
May3021
Jun2921
Jul2920
Aug3021
Sep3021
Oct3021
Nov3020
Dec2920

How hot and cold Duaca 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, Duaca feels like about 32°C (around October 1). About 12 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in October.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30291919
Feb31301919
Mar31301920
Apr31302020
May31302121
Jun31292121
Jul30292020
Aug31302121
Sep32302121
Oct32302121
Nov31302020
Dec30292020

Average hourly temperature in Duaca

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 20°C.

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

Duaca 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° / 19°165.611.56.0
Feb30° / 19°154.911.75.5
Mar30° / 20°427.411.94.9
Apr30° / 20°7114.112.24.2
May30° / 21°7114.512.54.4
Jun29° / 21°4312.112.64.9
Jul29° / 20°3712.412.55.0
Aug30° / 21°298.812.35.1
Sep30° / 21°4011.112.14.5
Oct30° / 21°7114.911.84.2
Nov30° / 20°6814.911.54.4
Dec29° / 20°309.511.45.4

Chance of rain

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

Duaca gets about 531 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 3.8 months, from around Apr 4 to Jul 28, peaking in April at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 71 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 24 · 53%Jan 25 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan186
Feb175
Mar257
Apr4614
May4615
Jun4012
Jul3912
Aug309
Sep3711
Oct4815
Nov4915
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Duaca collects about 531 mm of rain across 130 wet days — roughly 44 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 71 mm, while February is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161542717143372940716830
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan166
Feb155
Mar427
Apr7114
May7115
Jun4312
Jul3712
Aug299
Sep4011
Oct7115
Nov6815
Dec3010

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Duaca, 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 4.0 months, ending around March 24. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 25 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around August 2. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 16 · 62%Apr 25 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6040
Feb5248
Mar3466
Apr1387
May1288
Jun1783
Jul2476
Aug2971
Sep2476
Oct2080
Nov2674
Dec4357

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 31, 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)
Jan11.56:326:00
Feb11.76:316:11
Mar11.96:186:14
Apr12.26:006:14
May12.55:496:17
Jun12.65:496:25
Jul12.55:566:29
Aug12.36:006:21
Sep12.15:596:03
Oct11.85:595:45
Nov11.56:065:38
Dec11.46:215:45

Sunny days

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

Duaca averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Nov 20 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 8 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 1 sunny days — about 82% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 279 daysApr 201 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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.

Duaca 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 May, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 96% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 3% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan356400
Feb459361
Mar445483
Apr1177111
May047620
Jun02899
Jul02953
Aug01973
Sep01954
Oct018910
Nov058312
Dec126703

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 Duaca is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around May 16 to Sep 15. The windiest month is August, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 16 to Jan 2, with November the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 4 · 12 km/hNov 5 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep11calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Duaca

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Duaca 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 times of year to visit Duaca for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to early September and again from late November to late March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 12 · 6.0

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
Jan5.9good
Feb5.5good
Mar4.9fair
Apr4.2fair
May4.4fair
Jun4.9fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct4.2fair
Nov4.4fair
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 times of year to visit Duaca for hot-weather activities run from early July to mid September and again from late November to early April, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 21 · 7.8

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 Duaca, 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.

Duaca packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Duaca sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Duaca 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 Duaca peaks around April 9 at about 13 (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 highApr 9UV 13Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Duaca

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 April 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
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Duaca 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 Duaca is worst in June — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.7× the cleanest month (January, 12 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 931 µg/m³Jan 1012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct20Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Duaca 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. Duaca banks about 5,418 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan435
Feb403
Mar461
Apr453
May471
Jun444
Jul453
Aug466
Sep465
Oct475
Nov448
Dec444

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.

Duaca receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.6 and 5.8 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 25.8 kWhDec 24.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Duaca?

Duaca sits at 10.3°N, 69.2°W, 733 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Urachiche, 22 km away.

Topography around Duaca

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Duaca has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 317 m around an average of 756 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,069 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,221 m.

The land around Duaca is covered by trees (35%) and grassland (34%) within 3 km, trees (64%) and grassland (24%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
317 m
16 km
1,069 m
80 km
2,221 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Urachiche 22 km · Sabana de Parra 23 km · Yaritagua 23 km · Los Rastrojos 30 km · Cabudare 31 km · Chivacoa 32 km · Barquisimeto 33 km · Aroa 34 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 Duaca (10.2855°, -69.1624°, elevation 733 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).