Climate and average weather in Lander

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

Best: early December to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lander typically varies from 19°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 34°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 Lander for warm-weather activities is from early December to mid March.

Hottest
Apr
32°
Coldest
Jul
20°
Wettest
Jun
104 mm
Driest
Feb
13 mm
Rain / yr
730 mm
168 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
288 m
10.2°N
Clearest
Jan
49% cloud

Lander 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lander stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 32°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 20°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3019
Feb3019
Mar3120
Apr3220
May3121
Jun3021
Jul3020
Aug3020
Sep3120
Oct3120
Nov3121
Dec3020

How hot and cold Lander 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, Lander feels like about 34°C (around April 27). About 208 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31301919
Feb31301919
Mar32311920
Apr33322020
May33312121
Jun32302121
Jul32302020
Aug32302020
Sep33312020
Oct33312020
Nov33312021
Dec31302020

Average hourly temperature in Lander

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 20°C.

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

Lander 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
Jan30° / 19°134.911.55.9
Feb30° / 19°134.511.75.5
Mar31° / 20°235.211.94.8
Apr32° / 20°6211.412.23.9
May31° / 21°9717.812.53.5
Jun30° / 21°10420.912.63.7
Jul30° / 20°9622.712.53.6
Aug30° / 20°9823.312.33.5
Sep31° / 20°751912.13.5
Oct31° / 20°701711.83.6
Nov31° / 21°5714.211.54.1
Dec30° / 20°22711.45.4

Chance of rain

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

Lander gets about 730 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 6.9 months, from around Apr 25 to Nov 19, peaking in August at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 104 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 2 · 79%Jan 25 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb165
Mar185
Apr3811
May5618
Jun6921
Jul7423
Aug7523
Sep6319
Oct5517
Nov4614
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lander collects about 730 mm of rain across 168 wet days — roughly 61 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 104 mm, while February is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1313236297104969875705722
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan135
Feb135
Mar235
Apr6211
May9718
Jun10421
Jul9623
Aug9823
Sep7519
Oct7017
Nov5714
Dec227

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lander, 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 24 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around March 29. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 30 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around November 23. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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 · 71%May 12 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6337
Mar4852
Apr2278
May1882
Jun2377
Jul3169
Aug3268
Sep2971
Oct2971
Nov3466
Dec5545

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 1, 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)
Jan11.56:225:50
Feb11.76:216:01
Mar11.96:096:04
Apr12.25:506:04
May12.55:396:07
Jun12.65:396:15
Jul12.55:466:19
Aug12.35:516:11
Sep12.15:495:53
Oct11.85:495:35
Nov11.55:565:28
Dec11.46:115:35

Sunny days

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

Lander 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 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Nov 25 to Mar 28. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 3 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2613 daysApr 192 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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.

Lander 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 April, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 82% 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 (%)
Jan347501
Feb352451
Mar242542
Apr0186814
May066034
Jun026236
Jul007128
Aug006634
Sep017129
Oct017326
Nov037324
Dec120717

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

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Nov 30 to Apr 30. The windiest month is February, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 1 to Nov 29, with October the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 18 · 8 km/hOct 10 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Lander

In seasonPeak

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

Lander'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 Lander

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Lander 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 Lander for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest 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
Mar4.8fair
Apr3.9fair
May3.5fair
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.2fair
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 time of year to visit Lander 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 22 · 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 Lander, 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.

Lander packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Lander sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Lander

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 50 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
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar25Warm
Apr26Warm
May26Warm
Jun27Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug28Warm
Sep28Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Lander 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 Lander 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 Lander

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
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Lander 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 Lander 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

Lander 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. Lander banks about 5,553 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)
Jan441
Feb408
Mar475
Apr478
May493
Jun455
Jul462
Aug467
Sep466
Oct488
Nov465
Dec456

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.

Lander 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.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 235.8 kWhDec 14.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Lander?

Lander sits at 10.2°N, 66.7°W, 288 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Santa Teresa del Tuy, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Lander

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lander has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 288 m around an average of 239 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 857 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,728 m.

The land around Lander is covered by trees (67%) within 3 km, trees (73%) within 16 km, and trees (55%) within 80 km.

3 km
288 m
16 km
857 m
80 km
2,728 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Santa Teresa del Tuy 7.0 km · Ocumare del Tuy 11 km · Charallave 18 km · Cúa 20 km · El Hatillo 30 km · Guarenas 33 km · Baruta 34 km · Caucagüito 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 Lander (10.1833°, -66.7°, elevation 288 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).