Santa Cruz de Mara climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.9 °C and it receives 1,306 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The hottest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2015, reaching 40.1 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The coldest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 1956, at 20.2 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Almost never: Santa Cruz de Mara sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Santa Cruz de Mara warmed?

Yes: Santa Cruz de Mara warmed by +2.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The wettest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 15 November 1973, with 160 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The windiest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 2 March 1963, with winds reaching 37.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The warmest month in Santa Cruz de Mara is July (28.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (27.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara receives on average 1,306 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 200 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Santa Cruz de Mara (Venezuela) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 27.9 °C and it receives 1,306 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is July (28.6 °C on average) and the coldest is January (27.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in October.

Santa Cruz de Mara averages 0 frost days, 312 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 200 rainy days per year.

Santa Cruz de Mara has warmed by +2.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.27 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 40.1 °C (on 30 April 2015) and the coldest 20.2 °C (on 8 January 1956).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Santa Cruz de MaraZulia

coords: 10.79°, -71.69°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthOctoberDriest monthFebruary

Mean daily temperature

27.9°C

Average daily high

31.8°C

Average daily low

25.2°C

Annual rainfall

1,306mm

Sunshine / day

10.2h

Mean relative humidity

78%

Average peak wind

17.8km/h

Seasonal range

1.4°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

312 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

200 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

37.3 °C

Average feels-like low

29.2 °C

Average peak gust

33.5 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

364 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.3 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.74 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

40.1 °C

30 April 2015

Coldest day

20.2 °C

8 January 1956

Wettest day

160 mm

15 November 1973

Windiest day

37.1 km/h

2 March 1963

Strongest gust

65.9 km/h

2 March 1963

Hottest feels-like

46.8 °C

5 October 2015

Coldest feels-like

21.2 °C

20 January 1979

Sunniest day

12.4 h

27 May 1943

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	37.6 °C3 August 2025	22.7 °C1 October 2025	29.3 °C	1,075 mm	358
2024	37.9 °C19 March 2024	23.4 °C15 December 2024	29.4 °C	1,396 mm	361
2023	37.9 °C31 August 2023	23.0 °C19 February 2023	29.3 °C	947 mm	359
2022	35.9 °C23 March 2022	23.0 °C30 January 2022	28.4 °C	1,430 mm	344
2021	37.7 °C23 July 2021	21.8 °C1 November 2021	28.4 °C	985 mm	353
2020	39.4 °C26 May 2020	22.3 °C9 February 2020	28.8 °C	1,091 mm	351
2019	37.5 °C30 April 2019	22.9 °C13 December 2019	28.9 °C	758 mm	356
2018	37.2 °C20 July 2018	23.2 °C22 February 2018	28.7 °C	912 mm	356
2017	35.5 °C5 April 2017	22.9 °C3 January 2017	28.5 °C	1,300 mm	348
2016	37.3 °C24 March 2016	24.0 °C26 January 2016	29.3 °C	1,221 mm	360
2015	40.1 °C30 April 2015	24.3 °C24 January 2015	30.1 °C	655 mm	360
2014	38.9 °C17 July 2014	23.7 °C11 January 2014	29.6 °C	814 mm	362
2013	36.4 °C2 April 2013	23.4 °C1 November 2013	29.2 °C	1,127 mm	362
2012	36.2 °C7 June 2012	23.4 °C19 January 2012	28.9 °C	1,317 mm	361
2011	35.1 °C5 April 2011	22.9 °C20 December 2011	28.2 °C	2,030 mm	344
2010	37.5 °C13 February 2010	23.5 °C22 December 2010	28.6 °C	2,180 mm	340
2009	36.8 °C25 September 2009	22.7 °C15 February 2009	28.9 °C	1,014 mm	349
2008	35.7 °C5 April 2008	22.5 °C3 February 2008	28.3 °C	1,433 mm	350
2007	37.6 °C27 February 2007	22.9 °C19 January 2007	28.4 °C	1,614 mm	354
2006	36.4 °C1 July 2006	22.5 °C9 January 2006	28.5 °C	1,297 mm	353
2005	36.9 °C23 March 2005	22.2 °C19 January 2005	28.5 °C	1,452 mm	337
2004	36.6 °C15 August 2004	22.8 °C29 December 2004	28.4 °C	1,314 mm	348
2003	36.9 °C15 March 2003	23.0 °C24 March 2003	28.5 °C	1,358 mm	350
2002	39.0 °C15 August 2002	22.8 °C12 April 2002	28.7 °C	849 mm	357
2001	36.9 °C4 July 2001	21.5 °C21 February 2001	28.2 °C	892 mm	349
2000	35.4 °C9 July 2000	21.3 °C17 January 2000	27.7 °C	980 mm	313
1999	35.8 °C16 April 1999	21.9 °C28 December 1999	27.5 °C	1,339 mm	300
1998	37.8 °C4 March 1998	23.4 °C24 December 1998	28.6 °C	1,424 mm	347
1997	37.8 °C24 July 1997	22.4 °C23 January 1997	28.7 °C	765 mm	356
1996	35.1 °C13 January 1996	22.5 °C24 January 1996	27.9 °C	1,243 mm	330
1995	35.9 °C22 May 1995	23.3 °C11 January 1995	28.1 °C	1,345 mm	338
1994	36.0 °C27 June 1994	23.1 °C19 January 1994	28.4 °C	1,053 mm	338
1993	36.9 °C13 March 1993	22.7 °C13 January 1993	28.2 °C	1,254 mm	349
1992	36.8 °C9 April 1992	22.4 °C19 December 1992	28.1 °C	1,237 mm	342
1991	36.7 °C16 August 1991	22.8 °C22 January 1991	28.3 °C	945 mm	343
1990	35.6 °C8 June 1990	22.4 °C7 January 1990	28.0 °C	1,292 mm	316
1989	36.3 °C15 July 1989	22.0 °C8 January 1989	27.9 °C	1,176 mm	329
1988	35.6 °C19 March 1988	22.3 °C5 December 1988	27.9 °C	1,656 mm	325
1987	37.1 °C19 April 1987	23.3 °C5 January 1987	28.2 °C	1,407 mm	337
1986	37.0 °C11 August 1986	22.3 °C24 November 1986	27.6 °C	1,326 mm	297
1985	35.9 °C6 July 1985	21.1 °C17 December 1985	27.4 °C	1,332 mm	287
1984	36.5 °C29 March 1984	22.2 °C3 January 1984	27.8 °C	1,113 mm	315
1983	37.3 °C27 February 1983	22.3 °C9 February 1983	28.3 °C	1,161 mm	345
1982	35.5 °C5 March 1982	21.9 °C8 January 1982	27.8 °C	1,082 mm	316
1981	35.5 °C19 March 1981	22.4 °C23 December 1981	27.5 °C	1,741 mm	323
1980	36.9 °C31 March 1980	21.9 °C13 January 1980	28.1 °C	1,049 mm	343
1979	36.9 °C14 April 1979	21.6 °C18 January 1979	27.7 °C	1,532 mm	326
1978	36.2 °C12 March 1978	23.1 °C28 December 1978	28.0 °C	1,598 mm	345
1977	35.9 °C7 September 1977	23.2 °C12 January 1977	28.2 °C	1,182 mm	353
1976	35.7 °C2 September 1976	21.3 °C2 January 1976	27.7 °C	892 mm	325
1975	34.3 °C26 March 1975	20.3 °C29 December 1975	27.2 °C	1,550 mm	288
1974	34.7 °C17 April 1974	21.5 °C19 January 1974	27.0 °C	1,593 mm	286
1973	35.5 °C1 February 1973	21.8 °C13 December 1973	27.5 °C	1,671 mm	288
1972	37.7 °C4 August 1972	22.5 °C23 December 1972	28.0 °C	1,148 mm	344
1971	36.0 °C6 July 1971	22.4 °C22 November 1971	27.3 °C	1,230 mm	313
1970	36.6 °C23 April 1970	22.3 °C22 January 1970	27.4 °C	2,057 mm	301
1969	35.5 °C8 April 1969	21.0 °C1 February 1969	27.8 °C	1,832 mm	316
1968	34.2 °C20 August 1968	22.5 °C31 January 1968	27.8 °C	1,469 mm	335
1967	34.7 °C29 August 1967	22.4 °C21 March 1967	27.8 °C	1,216 mm	330
1966	36.0 °C30 March 1966	22.0 °C13 February 1966	27.7 °C	1,762 mm	305
1965	34.0 °C16 March 1965	22.0 °C30 January 1965	27.6 °C	1,374 mm	307
1964	35.1 °C1 March 1964	21.8 °C29 December 1964	27.5 °C	1,612 mm	293
1963	34.5 °C30 August 1963	21.7 °C13 January 1963	27.9 °C	1,388 mm	319
1962	35.1 °C16 April 1962	22.3 °C13 March 1962	27.9 °C	1,234 mm	336
1961	34.8 °C5 June 1961	21.3 °C13 December 1961	27.9 °C	1,151 mm	327
1960	34.5 °C10 April 1960	22.1 °C26 December 1960	27.8 °C	1,473 mm	318
1959	34.3 °C11 April 1959	22.7 °C8 January 1959	27.8 °C	1,259 mm	334
1958	36.2 °C14 March 1958	23.0 °C15 December 1958	28.0 °C	1,295 mm	341
1957	34.5 °C4 May 1957	21.9 °C25 February 1957	27.5 °C	913 mm	268
1956	32.4 °C8 April 1956	20.2 °C8 January 1956	26.7 °C	1,248 mm	165
1955	32.4 °C13 August 1955	20.8 °C2 January 1955	26.4 °C	1,647 mm	154
1954	33.0 °C21 March 1954	22.0 °C22 January 1954	26.8 °C	1,369 mm	218
1953	34.2 °C26 April 1953	22.5 °C24 February 1953	27.5 °C	1,171 mm	300
1952	34.6 °C4 April 1952	22.3 °C12 November 1952	27.3 °C	1,259 mm	256
1951	33.6 °C30 July 1951	21.3 °C7 January 1951	27.1 °C	1,334 mm	271
1950	33.1 °C23 March 1950	21.0 °C8 January 1950	26.3 °C	1,734 mm	192
1949	34.3 °C25 April 1949	21.1 °C15 December 1949	26.9 °C	1,179 mm	251
1948	35.1 °C1 April 1948	22.0 °C17 December 1948	26.9 °C	1,435 mm	229
1947	35.0 °C14 March 1947	21.7 °C27 November 1947	26.9 °C	1,303 mm	204
1946	33.9 °C7 July 1946	21.2 °C11 January 1946	26.9 °C	1,242 mm	229
1945	33.9 °C14 March 1945	21.2 °C8 January 1945	26.5 °C	1,389 mm	150
1944	34.7 °C16 April 1944	21.4 °C29 December 1944	26.9 °C	1,592 mm	227
1943	32.5 °C22 March 1943	21.4 °C11 February 1943	26.6 °C	1,201 mm	184
1942	35.1 °C20 March 1942	22.1 °C11 December 1942	26.7 °C	2,093 mm	204
1941	36.0 °C22 March 1941	22.4 °C9 January 1941	27.5 °C	1,095 mm	335
1940	34.4 °C6 April 1940	21.8 °C30 January 1940	27.1 °C	1,220 mm	252

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

32.6 °C

+0.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

358 d/yr

+46

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1075 mm

-231 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	31.9 °C	+0.4 °C	20 mm	+7 mm
Feb	32.7 °C	+0.6 °C	2 mm	-8 mm
Mar	32.8 °C	+0.2 °C	16 mm	-3 mm
Apr	32.3 °C	0.0 °C	118 mm	+34 mm
May	32.1 °C	+0.3 °C	210 mm	+23 mm
Jun	32.5 °C	+0.6 °C	88 mm	-55 mm
Jul	33.3 °C	+0.9 °C	47 mm	-56 mm
Aug	33.6 °C	+1.2 °C	140 mm	-10 mm
Sep	33.3 °C	+1.3 °C	110 mm	-66 mm
Oct	32.3 °C	+1.1 °C	244 mm	+27 mm
Nov	32.5 °C	+1.7 °C	63 mm	-95 mm
Dec	31.9 °C	+1.1 °C	19 mm	-29 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

37.6 °C

3 Aug 2025

Coldest day

22.7 °C

1 Oct 2025

Wettest day

25.9 mm

7 Oct 2025

Windiest day

30.9 km/h

4 Apr 2025

Strongest gust

56.9 km/h

4 Apr 2025

Hottest feels-like

43.7 °C

10 Sep 2025

Coldest feels-like

25.4 °C

15 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

12.3 h

23 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.9 °C and it receives 1,306 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The hottest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2015, reaching 40.1 °C.

What is the coldest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The coldest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 1956, at 20.2 °C.

Does it snow in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Almost never: Santa Cruz de Mara sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Santa Cruz de Mara warmed?

Yes: Santa Cruz de Mara warmed by +2.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The wettest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 15 November 1973, with 160 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The windiest day measured in Santa Cruz de Mara between 1940 and 2025 was 2 March 1963, with winds reaching 37.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Santa Cruz de Mara?

The warmest month in Santa Cruz de Mara is July (28.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (27.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara receives on average 1,306 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 200 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Santa Cruz de Mara gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Santa Cruz de Mara?

Yes: Santa Cruz de Mara has on average 364 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Santa Cruz de Mara?

In Santa Cruz de Mara, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 46.8 °C on 5 October 2015, and the lowest was 21.2 °C on 20 January 1979.

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