Climate and average weather in Tucupita

In Tucupita, 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 June.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tucupita typically varies from 23°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 34°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tucupita for warm-weather activities is from early January to mid April.

Hottest
Sep
32°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Jun
158 mm
Driest
Mar
32 mm
Rain / yr
1149 mm
222 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1 m
9.1°N
Clearest
Jan
58% cloud

Tucupita is city of the Tucupita Municipality in the state of Delta Amacuro, eastern Venezuela.

Density
15,118/km²
people per km²
Founded
1848

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

Tucupita 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 April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tucupita stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3023
Feb3023
Mar3123
Apr3224
May3224
Jun3124
Jul3124
Aug3124
Sep3224
Oct3224
Nov3124
Dec3023

How hot and cold Tucupita 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, Tucupita feels like about 39°C (around September 19). Nearly every day a year carries 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)
Jan33302223
Feb33302323
Mar34312323
Apr36322424
May36322424
Jun36312424
Jul36312424
Aug38312424
Sep38322424
Oct38322424
Nov36312424
Dec34302323

Average hourly temperature in Tucupita

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Tucupita 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° / 23°6416.111.54.6
Feb30° / 23°3810.811.74.8
Mar31° / 23°32811.94.6
Apr32° / 24°428.712.24.0
May32° / 24°9616.512.43.4
Jun31° / 24°15824.812.53.0
Jul31° / 24°15727.612.52.8
Aug31° / 24°14025.112.32.8
Sep32° / 24°891912.13.0
Oct32° / 24°9620.211.83.0
Nov31° / 24°1292311.63.1
Dec30° / 23°10822.111.53.7

Chance of rain

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

Tucupita gets about 1149 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 7.4 months, from around May 24 to Jan 4, peaking in July at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 28.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 158 mm over about 25 wet days; March is the driest, with 32 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 18 · 88%Mar 28 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5216
Feb3811
Mar268
Apr309
May5317
Jun8225
Jul8828
Aug8125
Sep6519
Oct6520
Nov7623
Dec7122

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tucupita collects about 1149 mm of rain across 222 wet days — roughly 96 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 158 mm, while March is the driest at just 32 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec64383242961581571408996129108
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6416
Feb3811
Mar328
Apr429
May9617
Jun15825
Jul15728
Aug14025
Sep8919
Oct9620
Nov12923
Dec10822

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tucupita, 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 December 13 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around April 14. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 56% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 15 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around August 21. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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 6 · 59%Jun 12 · 24%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb5545
Mar4852
Apr4060
May3169
Jun2575
Jul2971
Aug3664
Sep4060
Oct3664
Nov3268
Dec4258

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 23, 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)
Jan11.56:025:33
Feb11.76:025:44
Mar11.95:505:46
Apr12.25:325:44
May12.45:225:47
Jun12.55:235:54
Jul12.55:295:58
Aug12.35:335:51
Sep12.15:315:34
Oct11.85:295:17
Nov11.65:365:11
Dec11.55:505:19

Sunny days

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

Tucupita 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 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Dec 13 to Apr 9. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is June, down near 2 sunny days — about 61% fewer than the February peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedFeb 87 daysJun 242 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Tucupita 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 (%)
Jan18811
Feb32670
Mar38620
Apr22735
May67420
Jun16733
Jul05941
Aug04357
Sep05149
Oct05743
Nov05941
Dec38413

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 Tucupita is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Dec 30 to Jun 11. The windiest month is April, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 12 to Dec 29, with August the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 1 · 11 km/hAug 7 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Tucupita

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Tucupita 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 Tucupita for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to late April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 31 · 4.8

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb4.8fair
Mar4.6fair
Apr4.0fair
May3.4poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.0poor
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 Tucupita for hot-weather activities is from early January to mid May, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 24 · 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 Tucupita, 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.

Tucupita 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 September, Tucupita sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tucupita 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 Tucupita peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 10 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 19UV 14Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Tucupita

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
Apr86.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec75

Air quality in Tucupita 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 Tucupita is worst in April — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (November, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodApr 2325 µg/m³Nov 2012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May25Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tucupita 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. Tucupita banks about 6,308 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)
Jan495
Feb456
Mar530
Apr540
May558
Jun516
Jul530
Aug547
Sep547
Oct563
Nov519
Dec507

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.

Tucupita receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.2 and 5.6 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 105.6 kWhDec 94.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Tucupita?

Tucupita sits at 9.1°N, 62.1°W, 1 m above sea level, in Venezuela. The nearest listed city is Barrancas, 43 km away.

Ciudad GuayanaUpataPoint FortinMaturínSan FernandoMon Repos

Topography around Tucupita

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tucupita has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 27 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 31 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 589 m.

The land around Tucupita is covered by trees (35%), grassland (21%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, wetland (45%) and trees (30%) within 16 km, and trees (50%), wetland (24%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
27 m
16 km
31 m
80 km
589 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Barrancas 43 km · Temblador 65 km · Ciudad Guayana 102 km · Upata 123 km · Point Fortin 130 km · Maturín 145 km · San Fernando 150 km · Mon Repos 151 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 Tucupita (9.0626°, -62.0521°, elevation 1 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).