Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 26.0°C
- Humidity
- 75%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- NNW 340°, 6 km/h
- Pressure
- 1011.9 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
- Visibility
- 9.7 km or more
The last 24 hours
Local time| Time | Temperature |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | 27.0°C |
| 09:00 | 27.0°C |
The record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happenedJan
40.3°
Sat 1 Jan 1983
19.0°
Sat 31 Jan 1981
Feb
39.5°
Sun 27 Feb 1983
17.0°
Mon 11 Feb 1974
Mar
37.8°
Wed 30 Mar 1966
20.2°
Fri 11 Mar 1983
Apr
38.6°
Sat 27 Apr 1985
19.0°
Mon 26 Apr 1976
May
39.0°
Record high
36.2°C
Mon 7 Nov 1983
Record low
22.0°C
Thu 7 Nov 1974
Average high
33.3°C
all years on record
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 27.0°C.
From our dataRecord high 44.0°C against record low 17.0°C. - 2
At 09:00 it was 27.0°C. By 14:00 it was 31.0°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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5.2°C short of the record for 7 November
Today’s high 31.0°C against 36.2°C in 1983. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
44.0°C
- Date
- Sunday, 24 August 1986
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt, Venezuela
- Position
- 10.56°N 71.73°W · 76 m
The highest in available records since 1959. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1959 to 2018.
Lowest we have recorded
13.0°C
- Date
- Monday, 26 October 2026
- Time of day
- 12:00 local
- Location
- Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt, Venezuela
- Position
- 10.56°N 71.73°W · 76 m
The lowest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 38 days.
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,200 km north of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt is
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10.56°N 71.73°W
Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
View more on Google Maps10.5580°N, 71.7280°W
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 8th hottest of the 9,148 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 25 days.
- It has passed 30°C on 4 of the 5 days we have recorded here.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
36.0°C
Mon 2 Nov 2026 at 16:00 local
Lowest
13.0°C
Mon 26 Oct 2026 at 12:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt since September 2026, across 38 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt (SVMC) is a METAR weather station in Venezuela, 76 m above sea level, about 14 km from La Concepción.
We have kept a daily record here for 38 of the 47 days since 22 September 2026. We have stored 240 observations across the 37 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
| Time | Temp | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | 31.0°C | +1.0°C | Counted |
| 30.0°C | +2.0°C | Counted | |
| 28.0°C | 0.0°C | Counted | |
| 28.0°C | 0.0°C |
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 5 days here, running from 24.0°C to 36.0°C, a spread of 12.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 7 readings in the last 24 hours.
Recent highlights
Reached 36.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 35.0°C on Wed 30 Sep 2026.
Fell to 13.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating 26.0°C on Thu 24 Sep 2026.
Entered the ten hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 8th of 5,278.
- and the 1 days before it
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 12th of 6,955, on each of 2 days running.
Its high of 36.0°C was the highest of the 5 stations we hold in Venezuela.
Its low of 13.0°C was the lowest of the 5 stations we hold in Venezuela.
Reached 35.0°C, its highest of October, beating 34.0°C on Sun 11 Oct 2026.
Fell to 26.0°C, its lowest of October, beating 27.0°C on Sat 3 Oct 2026.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 36.0°C | 24.0°C | 29.6°C | 5 | 26 |
| October 2026 | 35.0°C | 13.0°C | 31.2°C | 26 | 164 |
| September 2026 | 35.0°C | 26.0°C | 30.7°C | 6 of 7 | 50 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 36.0°C, lowest 13.0°C, mean 30.9°C. 38 days recorded from 240 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 7 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 31.0°C | 18:00 UTC | 27.0°C | 13:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 31.0°C | 13:00 UTC | 31.0°C | 13:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 25.0°C | 12:00 UTC | 24.0°C | 11:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-02 | 36.0°C | 20:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationValledupar/Pumerejo Arpt29.0°C166.9 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbySanta Marta/Bolivar Arpt29.0°C280.7 km away
- Coldest nearbyRiohacha/Padilla Arpt23.0°C168.6 km away, today's low
- The opposite of hereAmundsen-Scott South Pole Station−49.5°CAntarctica
The nearest other station is 166.9 km away. Quality control compares a reading against stations within 150 km, so there is nothing close enough to cross-check this one against.
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 38 of the 47 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
It is on a run of 3 days now. Its longest unbroken run is 18 days.
- First reading stored34.0°C on our first day here
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country34.0°C
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations50 of 8,537
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- First day as the coldest we hold in its country13.0°C
- First time in the ten hottest reporting stations8 of 5,278
Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt?
The warmest month on record here is August, when the highest reading has reached 44.0°C (111.2°F) on Sunday, 24 August 1986.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is October, when the lowest reading has fallen to 13.0°C (55.4°F) on Monday, 26 October 2026.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt?
44.0°C (111.2°F) on Sunday, 24 August 1986. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1959. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt?
13.0°C (55.4°F) on Monday, 26 October 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station, and it is lower than anything in the daily archive we hold, which runs since 1959.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Maracaibo/La Chinita Arpt right now?
31.0°C (87.8°F), measured at 14:00 local on Friday 6 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| All-time, monthly and on-this-day records | NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1959 to 2018 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 38 days, which hold the record shown above | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
2 readings from this station have been refused in the last 14 days.
- Not a jump too large to be weather: 2
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Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
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Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
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The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
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The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
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