Cuba / Matanzas Province
Varadero
Varadero is a coastal resort area in Matanzas Province, Cuba. Its longest mapped beach (Playa de Varadero) stretches about 10.1 km. The sea averages 29.4 °C in August, its warmest month, and 25.4 °C in February; it stays at 21 °C or above all year.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
Average wind speed at 10 m reaches 7.0 m/s in November, the windiest month.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 20Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 11Public toilets
- –Showers
- 15Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 23Hotels & guesthouses
- 13Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 5Cash machines
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 14 restaurants, 2 cafés and 4 bars. Accommodation: 23 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Varadero
Beach-day index 8.2/10 · Cuba median 8.2
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 25.6 °C | 25.4 °C | 25.6 °C | 26.2 °C | 27.1 °C | 28.2 °C | 28.9 °C | 29.4 °C | 29.3 °C | 28.5 °C | 27.2 °C | 26.4 °C |
| High °C | 24° | 25° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 26° |
| Low °C | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 24° |
| Rain mm | 20 | 28 | 19 | 33 | 87 | 114 | 96 | 113 | 116 | 96 | 54 | 30 |
| Cloud % | 58 | 48 | 46 | 45 | 50 | 65 | 58 | 58 | 61 | 60 | 57 | 55 |
| Wind m/s | 6.8 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 6.8 |
| Daylight h | 10.9 | 11.4 | 12.0 | 12.7 | 13.2 | 13.6 | 13.4 | 13.0 | 12.3 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 10.7 |
| Record high/low | 29°/14° | 29°/15° | 30°/18° | 31°/20° | 31°/24° | 31°/25° | 31°/26° | 32°/27° | 32°/26° | 31°/21° | 30°/20° | 30°/16° |
| Beach index | 8.5 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.7 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in July and November–May; March scores 9.0/10 with highs of 25 °C, sea at 25.6 °C and 19 mm of rain.
That matches the median for beaches in Cuba in the same month.
Across the year the sea averages 27.3 °C, warmer than 83% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
September is the wettest month (116 mm) and March the driest (19 mm); the yearly total is about 810 mm.
Daylight runs from 10.7 hours in December to 13.6 hours in June; in mid-March the sun rises at 07:35 and sets at 19:34 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north-north-west (330°). Open water fills about 58% of the horizon close by, which makes it an exposed spot with water on most sides.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 20:11 local time on a bearing of 296°.
Sunrise is over the sea in May–August.
Straight out to the north-north-west about 800 km of open sea lies before the next coast, enough for large swells to build. The beach is on an island of about 103,518 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 14 m deep and 122 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 4 m above sea level 500 m inland and 0 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 73% built-up land, 13% grassland and 8% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 74% of that circle.
- Built 73%
- Grass 13%
- Bare 8%
- Tree 6%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport Matanzas | VRA | 21.6 km | south-west |
| José Martí International Airport Havana | HAV | 118 km | west |
| Jaime Gonzalez Airport Cienfuegos | CFG | 142 km | south-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 13 bus stops within 1.5 km and 15 mapped car parks within 1 km.
1 town or village of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 20K residents); within 30 km there are 3 (about 143.9K).
Photos
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 11.5 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w39671019; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_17QMF_20250320_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 9.9K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.