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Caracas weather

Distrito Federal · 3,000,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:05

Rain showers
26°
Rain showers
Feels like 33°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
64 %
Pressure
1015 hPa
Clouds
28 %
Storm
Moderate
Rise 06:17 Set 18:04 Day 11 h 46 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
27°22°
Feels like 36°
Wind ↑ SSW 4 km/h
Humidity 71 %
💧 7.2 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
Rain
23°20°
Feels like 33°
Wind ↑ SSE 7 km/h
Humidity 93 %
💧 7.7 mm
⚡ storm
14:00
Rain showers
27°
3.9mm
ENE 4
17:00
Rain showers
22°
3.3mm
SSW 3

Caracas forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
16°20°23°27°30°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed26°19°Thu 29 Oct: max 27° · min 19° · normal 23.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 26° · min 19° · normal 23.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 27° · min 19° · normal 23.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 27° · min 18° · normal 23.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 27° · min 19° · normal 23.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 19° · normal 23.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 26° · min 19° · normal 23.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu16°23°29°28°18°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Caracas climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 28 °C in December to 30 °C in May, and the coolest nights (January) average 19 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,500 mm of rain — more than 75% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 44 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 30 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan28 °C19 °C54 mm
Feb28 °C19 °C47 mm
Mar29 °C20 °C59 mm
Apr30 °C21 °C116 mm
May30 °C21 °C143 mm
Jun29 °C21 °C123 mm
Jul29 °C21 °C139 mm
Aug29 °C21 °C174 mm
Sep29 °C21 °C178 mm
Oct29 °C21 °C201 mm
Nov28 °C21 °C181 mm
Dec28 °C20 °C84 mm
Whole year29 °C20 °C1,500 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.49° N, 66.88° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Caracas: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.515µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Caracas

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Caracas, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Caracas yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Caracas

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 17:15 Set 05:38
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Caracas); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Caracas

Curious about the weather in Caracas on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Caracas weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Caracas, Distrito Federal: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 26 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 27 °C and around 9 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations