Climate and average weather in Guanare

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

Best: mid November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Guanare typically varies from 23°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 38°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 Guanare for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Mar
35°
Coldest
Jul
23°
Wettest
Jun
278 mm
Driest
Jan
12 mm
Rain / yr
1673 mm
200 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
152 m
9.0°N
Clearest
Jan
52% cloud

Guanare is city in Venezuela.

Density
5,614/km²
people per km²
Founded
1591

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

Guanare 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 mid November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Guanare stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, 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 30°C.

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

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3423
Feb3524
Mar3525
Apr3325
May3224
Jun3023
Jul3023
Aug3123
Sep3223
Oct3223
Nov3223
Dec3323

How hot and cold Guanare 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, Guanare feels like about 37°C (around March 30). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35342323
Feb36352424
Mar36352525
Apr36332525
May35322424
Jun34302323
Jul34302323
Aug35312323
Sep36322323
Oct36322323
Nov36322323
Dec35332323

Average hourly temperature in Guanare

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 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

Guanare 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° / 23°122.511.53.7
Feb35° / 24°132.911.73.0
Mar35° / 25°405.611.92.7
Apr33° / 25°13715.412.22.7
May32° / 24°23923.912.42.7
Jun30° / 23°27825.712.52.8
Jul30° / 23°25826.212.52.9
Aug31° / 23°24026.812.32.7
Sep32° / 23°1872512.12.6
Oct32° / 23°14621.611.82.8
Nov32° / 23°8616.511.63.1
Dec33° / 23°387.611.53.7

Chance of rain

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

Guanare gets about 1673 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 7.0 months, from around Apr 18 to Nov 16, peaking in August at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 19.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 278 mm over about 26 wet days; January is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 6 · 88%Jan 19 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb103
Mar206
Apr5115
May7624
Jun8526
Jul8526
Aug8727
Sep8325
Oct7022
Nov5417
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Guanare collects about 1673 mm of rain across 200 wet days — roughly 139 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 278 mm, while January is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1213401372392782582401871468638
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan123
Feb133
Mar406
Apr13715
May23924
Jun27826
Jul25826
Aug24027
Sep18725
Oct14622
Nov8617
Dec388

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Guanare, 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 19 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around March 27. 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 28 and lasts for 7.8 months, ending around November 18. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 · 60%May 12 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6040
Feb5050
Mar3169
Apr1189
May892
Jun1189
Jul1684
Aug1981
Sep1783
Oct2080
Nov2674
Dec4951

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 24, 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)
Jan11.56:326:04
Feb11.76:326:15
Mar11.96:206:17
Apr12.26:036:15
May12.45:536:18
Jun12.55:536:25
Jul12.56:006:29
Aug12.36:046:22
Sep12.16:026:05
Oct11.86:005:48
Nov11.66:075:42
Dec11.56:215:49

Sunny days

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

Guanare averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Nov 15 to Mar 24. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 1 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 1711 daysApr 270 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Guanare, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.5 months, from around April 15 to December 28. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 29 to April 14, 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 12 · 18%May 4 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan19434250
Feb115443450
Mar1123139160
Apr13932551
May00114833
Jun0009901
Jul0007930
Aug0002971
Sep0002962
Oct0004932
Nov00115841
Dec021650320

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.

Wind in Guanare is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 12 · 6 km/hOct 11 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Guanare

In seasonPeak

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

Guanare's monsoon runs April–October, 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 Guanare

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Guanare is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Guanare for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 3.8

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr2.7poor
May2.7poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.7poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov3.1poor
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 time of year to visit Guanare for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 13 · 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 Guanare, 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.

Guanare 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 March, Guanare 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 Guanare 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 Guanare peaks around March 14 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 highMar 14UV 13Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Guanare

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Guanare 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 Guanare is worst in March — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.0× the cleanest month (December, 13 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1938 µg/m³Dec 1714 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar40Poor
Apr32Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Guanare 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. Guanare banks about 6,518 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan569
Feb541
Mar616
Apr568
May548
Jun502
Jul509
Aug519
Sep517
Oct544
Nov532
Dec553

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.

Guanare receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.0 and 5.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightFeb 165.3 kWhJun 184.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul4.3Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Guanare?

Guanare sits at 9.0°N, 69.7°W, 152 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Boconoito, 35 km away.

Topography around Guanare

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Guanare has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 154 m around an average of 164 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 290 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,497 m.

The land around Guanare is covered by artificial surfaces (48%) and grassland (37%) within 3 km, grassland (64%) and trees (30%) within 16 km, and grassland (50%) and trees (44%) within 80 km.

3 km
154 m
16 km
290 m
80 km
3,497 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Boconoito 35 km · Sabaneta 39 km · Ospino 42 km · Barrancas 51 km · Boconó 62 km · Obispos 63 km · Píritu 68 km · Guanarito 69 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 Guanare (9.0393°, -69.7336°, elevation 152 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).