Varadero
Varadero; Playa Azul
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About
Varadero, also referred to as Playa Azul, is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. Varadero Beach is rated one of the world's best beaches in TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice Awards since 2019, ranking at number 9 as of January 2024.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Varadero, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Varadero
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
Partly cloudy
31° / 23°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
30° / 25°
UV Very high
Mon
Drizzle
30° / 25°
UV Very high
Tue
Showers
30° / 25°
6.6 mm
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
30° / 25°
1.8 mm
UV Very high
Thu
Drizzle
30° / 24°
UV Very high
In May 17
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
36° / 20°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.2h
06:44 – 19:58local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Varadero
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport (VRA) at 19 km.
Getting around Varadero
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
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- 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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.