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Mérida weather

Merida · 300,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:02

Mainly clear
21°
Mainly clear
Feels like 23°C
Wind
11 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
55 %
Pressure
1015 hPa
Clouds
49 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:33 Set 18:23 Day 11 h 50 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
21°18°
Feels like 24°
Wind ↑ S 7 km/h
Humidity 68 %
💧 6.1 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
16°13°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ ESE 9 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 4.1 mm
14:00
Rain showers
21°
3.3mm
S 2
17:00
Rain showers
18°
2.8mm
SSE 7

Mérida 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)
9°13°16°20°23°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed19°12°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 12° · normal 14.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 12° · normal 14.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 19° · min 12° · normal 14.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 20° · min 11° · normal 14.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 21° · min 11° · normal 14.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 11° · normal 14.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 19° · min 12° · normal 14.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu9°16°23°21°11°06
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Mérida climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 199 towns of 20,000+ people in Venezuela, Mérida has the second lowest mean temperature.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 18 °C in January to 20 °C in May, and the coolest nights (January) average 10 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,620 mm of rain — more than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 160 mm and 337 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 20 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (19 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan18 °C10 °C160 mm
Feb18 °C11 °C182 mm
Mar19 °C11 °C280 mm
Apr19 °C12 °C337 mm
May20 °C13 °C265 mm
Jun19 °C12 °C176 mm
Jul19 °C11 °C170 mm
Aug19 °C12 °C178 mm
Sep19 °C12 °C185 mm
Oct19 °C12 °C245 mm
Nov19 °C12 °C252 mm
Dec19 °C11 °C197 mm
Whole year19 °C11 °C2,620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.58° N, 71.17° 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 Mérida: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mérida

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Mérida

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 17:37 Set 05:51
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 Mérida

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

Mérida weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mérida, Merida: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 21 °C (feels like 23 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 21 °C and around 6 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