Maracaibo
Maracaibo
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About
Maracaibo is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, located on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the capital of Zulia and is the second-largest city proper in Venezuela, after the national capital, Caracas. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,602, with the metropolitan area estimated at 2,727,957 as of 2019. Maracaibo is commonly nicknamed "Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada".
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maracaibo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Maracaibo
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
Thunderstorm
35° / 28°
UV Very high
Sat
Thunderstorm
35° / 29°
UV Very high
Sun
Thunderstorm
32° / 27°
2.9 mm
UV High
Mon
Thunderstorm
34° / 27°
1.9 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Thunderstorm
33° / 26°
2.4 mm
UV Moderate
Wed
Thunderstorm
32° / 28°
1.5 mm
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
41° / 23°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.6h
06:24 – 19:00local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Maracaibo
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is La Chinita International Airport (MAR) at 13 km.
Getting around Maracaibo
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
B MetroMetro de Maracaibo
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, Sparkve.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.