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Maracaibo weather

Zulia · 1,752,602 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:05

Air: Fair High storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Sun

27°

Clear sky

Feels like 40°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

11 km/h

Humidity

88 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 06:37 Set 18:23 Day 11 h 46 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Overcast

32°30°

Feels like 45°

Wind ↑ N 13 km/h

Humidity 68 %

💧 0.2 mm

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 43°

Wind ↑ NNE 21 km/h

Gusts 35 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 0.5 mm

⚡ storm

14:00

32°

0.1mm

E 4

17:00

30°

0.1mm

N 13

Maracaibo 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)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Maracaibo climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — November, the mildest, still averages 32 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,340 mm of rain — more than 69% 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 31 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	33 °C	25 °C	13 mm
Feb	34 °C	25 °C	10 mm
Mar	34 °C	26 °C	32 mm
Apr	34 °C	26 °C	92 mm
May	33 °C	26 °C	187 mm
Jun	33 °C	26 °C	135 mm
Jul	34 °C	26 °C	115 mm
Aug	34 °C	26 °C	156 mm
Sep	33 °C	26 °C	181 mm
Oct	32 °C	25 °C	211 mm
Nov	32 °C	25 °C	160 mm
Dec	33 °C	25 °C	49 mm
Whole year	33 °C	26 °C	1,340 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.64° N, 71.61° 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 Maracaibo: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.512µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Maracaibo

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Maracaibo, 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 Maracaibo yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Maracaibo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 17:34 Set 05:58

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 Maracaibo

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

Maracaibo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Maracaibo, Zulia: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 27 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 32 °C and a dry sky; 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.

Other big cities nearby

Cabimas 32 km 29°

Valledupar 181 km 25°

Mérida 234 km 21°

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