Caracas
Santiago de León de Caracas
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About
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of Venezuela, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of over 5 million inhabitants.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caracas, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Caracas
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
30° / 21°
UV Very high
Sat
Drizzle
30° / 21°
2.5 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Drizzle
30° / 20°
UV Very high
Mon
Drizzle
29° / 20°
0.8 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Drizzle
28° / 20°
2.4 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
26° / 21°
3.0 mm
UV Very high
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
34° / 19°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.6h
06:05 – 18:41local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Caracas
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS) at 14 km.
Getting around Caracas
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Salvadoroff.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.