Climate and average weather in La Vela de Coro

In La Vela de Coro, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: early December to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in La Vela de Coro typically varies from 23°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit La Vela de Coro for warm-weather activities is from early December to mid April.

Hottest
Aug
33°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Nov
85 mm
Driest
Jul
16 mm
Rain / yr
452 mm
92 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
13 m
11.5°N
Clearest
Jan
41% cloud

La Vela de Coro is Venezuelan port.

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

La Vela de Coro 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 mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in La Vela de Coro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 33°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2923
Feb2923
Mar3024
Apr3125
May3125
Jun3225
Jul3225
Aug3325
Sep3226
Oct3125
Nov3025
Dec2924

How hot and cold La Vela de Coro 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, La Vela de Coro feels like about 39°C (around September 19). About 316 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292323
Feb32292323
Mar33302424
Apr34312425
May36312525
Jun36322525
Jul36322525
Aug37332525
Sep38322526
Oct37312525
Nov35302525
Dec33292424

Average hourly temperature in La Vela de Coro

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 August afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

La Vela de Coro 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° / 23°237.211.46.1
Feb29° / 23°174.911.66.1
Mar30° / 24°164.311.95.8
Apr31° / 25°275.712.24.9
May31° / 25°41712.54.3
Jun32° / 25°183.512.74.5
Jul32° / 25°16312.64.7
Aug33° / 25°24512.44.1
Sep32° / 26°639.912.13.6
Oct31° / 25°8215.111.73.7
Nov30° / 25°8515.211.54.2
Dec29° / 24°4111.111.35.2

Chance of rain

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

La Vela de Coro gets about 452 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.2 months, from around Sep 3 to Jan 8, peaking in October at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 19.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 85 mm over about 15 wet days; July is the driest, with 16 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 31 · 53%Jul 19 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb185
Mar144
Apr196
May217
Jun134
Jul103
Aug175
Sep3310
Oct4815
Nov5015
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, La Vela de Coro collects about 452 mm of rain across 92 wet days — roughly 38 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 85 mm, while July is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec231716274118162463828541
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan237
Feb175
Mar164
Apr276
May417
Jun184
Jul163
Aug245
Sep6310
Oct8215
Nov8515
Dec4111

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In La Vela de Coro, 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 26 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 28. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 29 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around July 21. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 · 80%May 6 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb7525
Mar5842
Apr2674
May2377
Jun3367
Jul4456
Aug4852
Sep3565
Oct3367
Nov4159
Dec6238

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 9, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:365:59
Feb11.66:346:12
Mar11.96:206:16
Apr12.26:016:16
May12.55:496:20
Jun12.75:486:29
Jul12.65:566:32
Aug12.46:016:24
Sep12.16:016:04
Oct11.76:015:46
Nov11.56:105:37
Dec11.36:245:44

Sunny days

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

La Vela de Coro averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Nov 25 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 4 sunny days — about 77% fewer than the January peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 1118 daysMay 13 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar11Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep6Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov8Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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.

La Vela de Coro 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 January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan28720
Feb36640
Mar28711
Apr8866
May08020
Jun09010
Jul0964
Aug18514
Sep06139
Oct06139
Nov08416
Dec9892

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 La Vela de Coro is typically light breeze, near 19 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.8 months, from around Dec 27 to Aug 19. The windiest month is June, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 20 to Dec 26, with October the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJun 24 · 21 km/hOct 23 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan20light breeze
Feb21breezy
Mar21breezy
Apr20light breeze
May20light breeze
Jun21breezy
Jul21breezy
Aug19light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Hazard calendar for La Vela de Coro

In seasonPeak

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

La Vela de Coro sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

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

Best time to visit La Vela de Coro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, La Vela de Coro 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 La Vela de Coro for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 28 · 6.2

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
Feb6.1good
Mar5.8good
Apr4.9fair
May4.4fair
Jun4.5fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.2fair
Dec5.2fair

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 La Vela de Coro for hot-weather activities is from early December to early September, with a peak score in the second week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 8 · 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 La Vela de Coro, 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.

La Vela de Coro packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, La Vela de Coro sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

Sea temperature near La Vela de Coro

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 19 km away) is warmest in October at about 28°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
Aug28Warm
Sep28Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in La Vela de Coro 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 La Vela de Coro peaks around March 18 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 18UV 14Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in La Vela de Coro

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
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in La Vela de Coro 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 La Vela de Coro is worst in June — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (January, 10 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 1331 µg/m³Jan 910 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

La Vela de Coro 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. La Vela de Coro banks about 6,449 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan502
Feb455
Mar520
Apr525
May566
Jun552
Jul569
Aug586
Sep568
Oct566
Nov523
Dec517

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.

La Vela de Coro receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Feb 22 to Oct 2. The brightest month is August, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the August peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseAug 116.6 kWhDec 44.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May6.0Intense
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug6.6Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is La Vela de Coro?

La Vela de Coro sits at 11.5°N, 69.6°W, 13 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Coro, 14 km away.

Santa Cruz de los TaquesWillemstad

Topography around La Vela de Coro

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of La Vela de Coro.

Within 3 km, the terrain around La Vela de Coro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 136 m around an average of 23 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 520 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,492 m.

The land around La Vela de Coro is covered by shrubs (41%) and water (32%) within 3 km, water (38%), shrubs (25%) and trees (22%) within 16 km, and water (37%), shrubs (27%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
136 m
16 km
520 m
80 km
1,492 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Coro 14 km · Puerto Cumarebo 23 km · Pueblo Nuevo 67 km · Punto Fijo 74 km · Punta Cardón 74 km · Judibana 75 km · Santa Cruz de los Taques 85 km · Willemstad 104 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 La Vela de Coro (11.4608°, -69.5657°, elevation 13 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). 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).