Maracay
City in Venezuela: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Maracay: User:Megasuperjorge, Flickr user J♠, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Maracay is a city in Venezuela, in Aragua. About 464,700 people live in the city proper, making it the 8th largest city of Venezuela in our atlas.
It lies at 10.25° N, 67.59° W, about 553 m (1,814 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Caracas time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Maracay. Green dots: other major cities of Venezuela. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Maracay has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually May, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 20°C (68°F). Around 691 mm (27 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
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
- Valencia · 45 km
- Caracas · 83 km
- Barquisimeto · 194 km
- Barcelona · 318 km
- Puerto La Cruz · 324 km
- Barinas · 340 km
- Cumaná · 374 km
- Maracaibo · 441 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3632998 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q333928 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Maracay: User:Megasuperjorge, Flickr user J♠, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hermanos ghersi maracay: Vinotinto1000, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Potros en el Stadium (2005-11-19) 001: Tibaldo Hernández, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Torre Sindoni5: xolkanf, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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