Climate and average weather in San Felipe

In San Felipe, 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 May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in San Felipe typically varies from 19°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 33°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Sep
30°
Coldest
Jan
19°
Wettest
May
180 mm
Driest
Feb
41 mm
Rain / yr
1298 mm
224 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
287 m
10.3°N
Clearest
Jan
61% cloud

San Felipe is capital city of Yaracuy State, Venezuela.

Density
288/km²
people per km²
Founded
1729

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

San Felipe 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 San Felipe, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in San Felipe stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 19°C and high of 28°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2819
Feb2919
Mar2920
Apr3021
May3021
Jun2921
Jul2921
Aug2921
Sep3021
Oct3021
Nov2921
Dec2820

How hot and cold San Felipe 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, San Felipe feels like about 32°C (around October 8). About 78 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)
Jan29281919
Feb30291919
Mar31292020
Apr32302121
May32302121
Jun31292121
Jul31292121
Aug31292121
Sep32302121
Oct32302121
Nov31292021
Dec30282020

Average hourly temperature in San Felipe

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 September afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 19°C.

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

San Felipe 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
Jan28° / 19°431111.56.0
Feb29° / 19°4110.111.75.4
Mar29° / 20°8912.311.94.8
Apr30° / 21°17019.812.23.7
May30° / 21°18023.212.53.4
Jun29° / 21°13022.812.63.6
Jul29° / 21°12323.712.53.8
Aug29° / 21°8921.112.33.9
Sep30° / 21°9320.312.13.5
Oct30° / 21°13323.211.83.4
Nov29° / 21°13321.411.53.8
Dec28° / 20°7415.111.45.1

Chance of rain

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

San Felipe gets about 1298 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 7.7 months, from around Apr 11 to Nov 30, peaking in July at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 26.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 180 mm over about 23 wet days; February is the driest, with 41 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 8 · 79%Jan 26 · 30%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb3510
Mar4212
Apr6520
May7423
Jun7623
Jul7624
Aug6821
Sep6920
Oct7423
Nov7121
Dec4915

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Felipe collects about 1298 mm of rain across 224 wet days — roughly 108 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 180 mm, while February is the driest at just 41 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec434189170180130123899313313374
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan4311
Feb4110
Mar8912
Apr17020
May18023
Jun13023
Jul12324
Aug8921
Sep9320
Oct13323
Nov13321
Dec7415

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In San Felipe, 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 25 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 27. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 47% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 28 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around August 28. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 4 · 49%Apr 25 · 6%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb4555
Mar3169
Apr1090
May1090
Jun1486
Jul2080
Aug2377
Sep2179
Oct1981
Nov2278
Dec3664

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 30, 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)
Jan11.56:315:58
Feb11.76:306:09
Mar11.96:176:12
Apr12.25:586:12
May12.55:476:15
Jun12.65:476:23
Jul12.55:546:27
Aug12.35:596:19
Sep12.15:586:01
Oct11.85:575:43
Nov11.56:055:36
Dec11.46:195:43

Sunny days

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

San Felipe averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Nov 27 to Mar 30. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 1 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 246 daysApr 190 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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.

San Felipe 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 77% of the time. Even in February, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan023716
Feb127675
Mar0256312
Apr065737
May004357
Jun006337
Jul007327
Aug007921
Sep008218
Oct016633
Nov005743
Dec087120

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Dec 12 to Apr 15. The windiest month is February, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 6 to Dec 11, with November the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeFeb 22 · 8 km/hNov 1 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit San Felipe

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 16 · 6.1

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
Feb5.4fair
Mar4.8fair
Apr3.8fair
May3.4poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.9fair
Dec5.1fair

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 San Felipe for hot-weather activities is from early December to early April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 28 · 6.9

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 San Felipe, 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.

San Felipe packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 September, San Felipe sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in San Felipe 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 San Felipe peaks around March 21 at about 13 (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 21UV 13Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in San Felipe

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
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in San Felipe 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 San Felipe 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

San Felipe 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. San Felipe banks about 5,376 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)
Jan418
Feb389
Mar450
Apr451
May476
Jun449
Jul455
Aug468
Sep469
Oct478
Nov441
Dec432

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.

San Felipe receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightMar 155.3 kWhDec 14.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.6Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.4Bright

Where is San Felipe?

San Felipe sits at 10.3°N, 68.7°W, 287 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Cocorote, 5.0 km away.

Topography around San Felipe

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Felipe has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 531 m around an average of 305 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,892 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,938 m.

The land around San Felipe is covered by trees (50%) and artificial surfaces (39%) within 3 km, trees (74%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (66%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
531 m
16 km
1,892 m
80 km
1,938 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Cocorote 5.0 km · Boraure 11 km · Guama 12 km · Aroa 20 km · Chivacoa 26 km · Nirgua 29 km · Yumare 30 km · Urachiche 35 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 San Felipe (10.3401°, -68.743°, elevation 287 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).