Pilón climate by month
What the weather is like
Pilón has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 31° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 4°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 881 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (133 mm, 24 wet days) and January the driest (24 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 39% in June.
The sea reaches about 30° in September. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Havana, the capital, Pilón is 0.5° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · August
- Coldest nights
- 23° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · September
- Longest day
- 13 h 20 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 56 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° |
| Average low | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 24 mm | 35 mm | 31 mm | 56 mm | 111 mm | 85 mm | 76 mm | 91 mm | 137 mm | 133 mm | 69 mm | 33 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.2 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 10.3 | 18.3 | 20.8 | 14.7 | 19.3 | 21.8 | 24.3 | 15 | 9.5 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 12% | 12% | 14% | 26% | 39% | 33% | 35% | 39% | 34% | 25% | 17% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 03 | 11h 30 | 12h 01 | 12h 36 | 13h 04 | 13h 20 | 13h 13 | 12h 49 | 12h 16 | 11h 42 | 11h 12 | 10h 56 |
| Month score | 76 | 75 | 73 | 60 | 49 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 41 | 46 | 51 | 64 |