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Santa Cruz de Mara, Venezuela Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Santa Cruz de Mara, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

The warmest month is August, with an average high of 34°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 24°C. A normal year brings 628 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Maracaibo, since 1959. The line marks today.

Normal daily high and low temperature at Santa Cruz de Mara through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.1020304050JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Record high
  • Record low

Normals for Sep 27

Normal high
33°C
Normal low
27°C
Record high
36°Cin 1962
Record low
22°Cin 1976
Chance of a wet day
58%
Daylight
12 h 04 min

Month by month

Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.

MonthAvg highAvg lowRecord highRecord lowPrecipitationWet days
January32°C24°C40°C (1983)19°C (1981)12 mm3.1
February32°C24°C40°C (1983)17°C (1974)8 mm2.8
March33°C25°C38°C (1966)20°C (1983)19 mm3.1
April33°C26°C39°C (1985)19°C (1976)39 mm9.0
May34°C27°C39°C (2015)20°C (1986)74 mm12.4
June34°C27°C40°C (1986)19°C (2009)45 mm9.0
July34°C26°C41°C (1998)20°C (1976)43 mm9.3
August34°C27°C44°C (1986)20°C (1980)62 mm12.4
September33°C27°C39°C (1983)18°C (1987)96 mm18.0
October32°C26°C41°C (1993)18°C (1978)118 mm18.6
November31°C26°C39°C (1983)18°C (1977)75 mm15.0
December32°C25°C37°C (1986)19°C (1977)37 mm9.3
Year33°C26°C628 mm122

Precipitation

Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

628 mm in a normal year, most in October.

Chance of a wet day

The chance of at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis on each date at Santa Cruz de Mara, in percent.020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Santa Cruz de Mara.

The muggiest month is May, when 101 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January21°C70%0%0%0%58%42%0%
February21°C67%0%0%1%74%25%0%
March21°C67%0%0%1%60%38%0%
April22°C68%0%0%0%25%70%5%
May23°C70%0%0%0%4%77%20%
June23°C67%0%0%0%2%87%11%
July22°C67%0%0%0%4%93%3%
August23°C67%0%0%0%2%85%13%
September24°C71%0%0%0%0%64%36%
October24°C76%0%0%0%0%52%48%
November24°C77%0%0%0%0%63%37%
December22°C74%0%0%0%18%75%7%

Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.

Clouds

Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.

The clearest month is January, with the sky 19 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is October, at 60 percent.

Wind

The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.

The windiest month is February, averaging 28.1 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 13, with 12 h 46 min of daylight; the shortest is Jan 1, with 11 h 30 min.

Hours of daylight at Santa Cruz de Mara through the year.0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Day length

Solar energy

Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.

Sunrise and sunset calendar

Month pages

The weather in Santa Cruz de Mara in each month, day by day.

What this means

A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.

A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1959. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.

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Sources

Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station VEM00080407, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.