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Venezuela
25 cities in the atlas · 20 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: Davevzla · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Caracas
- Currency
- VES
- Venezuelan Bolívar
- Local time
- Venezuela TimeUTC-04:00
- Calling code
- +58
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A and B
Facts
Venezuela in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Caracas
- Currency
- Venezuelan Bolívar VESToday's indicative rate: VES 100 ≈ USD 0.114Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish
- Time zones
- Venezuela TimeUTC-04:00
- Calling code
- +58
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A and B120 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 171ambulance, fire and police911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 28,516,896 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 912,050 km²
- Internet domain
- .ve
When to go
Climate across Venezuela
In July, August and November to January, more than half of the 15 cities with figures in Venezuela have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caracas | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 27° |
| Mérida | 22° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 21° | 21° |
| Maracaibo | 33° | 34° | 34° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 36° | 36° | 35° | 33° | 32° | 33° |
| Valencia | 31° | 32° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 30° |
| Barquisimeto | 30° | 31° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° |
| Ciudad Bolívar | 33° | 35° | 36° | 37° | 35° | 32° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 33° | 33° | 32° |
| Maracay | 31° | 32° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 30° |
| Maturín | 32° | 34° | 35° | 36° | 35° | 32° | 30° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 31° |
| Ciudad Guayana | 32° | 33° | 35° | 35° | 34° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 31° | 31° |
| Barcelona | 31° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 31° | 31° |
| Cities good for going, of 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 12 |
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
Cities
Cities in Venezuela
All 25 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
- CaracasCapitalDistrito Federal3,000,000
- MaracaiboZulia1,752,602
- ValenciaCarabobo1,619,470
- BarquisimetoLara1,240,714
- Ciudad GuayanaBolívar978,202
- BarcelonaAnzoátegui815,141
- MaturínMonagas647,459
- MaracayAragua464,700
- Ciudad BolívarBolívar412,619
- CumanáSucre405,626
- Barinas397,279
- Puerto CruzAnzoátegui370,000
- CabimasZulia351,736
- TurmeroAragua344,700
- Mérida300,000
Smaller places with an airport · 10
Airports
Airports in Venezuela
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
- MARLa Chinita International AirportMaracaibo
- VLNArturo Michelena International AirportValencia
- BRMJacinto Lara International AirportBarquisimeto
- PZOGeneral Manuel Carlos Piar International AirportCiudad Guayana
- BLAGeneral José Antonio Anzoategui International AirportBarcelona
- PMVDel Caribe Santiago Mariño International AirportCumaná
- CCSMaiquetía Simón Bolívar International AirportMaiquetía
Photographs
Venezuela in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
CaracasPhoto: Olga Berrios · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Venezuela
Tell us where in Venezuela, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.