Ciudad Guayana
City in Venezuela: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Panorámica aérea de ciudad Guayana: Heribert Dezeo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Ciudad Guayana is a city in Venezuela, in Bolívar. About 978,202 people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Venezuela in our atlas.
It lies at 8.35° N, 62.64° W, about 103 m (338 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Caracas time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Ciudad Guayana. Green dots: other major cities of Venezuela. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Ciudad Guayana has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 35°C (96°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 21°C (70°F). Around 1,110 mm (44 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jun.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in VenezuelaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Ciudad Bolívar · 103 km
- Maturín · 166 km
- Cumaná · 289 km
- Barcelona · 300 km
- Puerto La Cruz · 301 km
- Caracas · 522 km
- Maracay · 583 km
- Valencia · 622 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3645528 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q507080 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Panorámica aérea de ciudad Guayana: Heribert Dezeo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cte cachamay aereo: Shaolingv4, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Magallanesz: Vinotinto1000, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
