The climate of Cuba is subtropical humid, with two clearly defined stations, the dry one (winter) of November to April, and the rainy one (summer) of May to October and with continuous breezes the whole year that they refresh substantially. The annual average temperature is 24°C, average in winter is 20°C and in summer is 26-27°C. During the winter season it is frequent the entrance of cold fronts with minimum temperatures sometimes below 10°C. The minimum temperatures vary between 1°C and 8.5 °C in the occident of the country and between 3°C and 12.5°C in the oriental region; the registered maximum temperatures are among 36°C-38°C.

Generally Western region are less hot and more rainy but that the oriental in spite of that the basin of the river Toa in the oriental part is the area most rainy of Cuba with an annual average 3000 mm of rainfall.

The rains have an annual average of 1 200 mm (48 inches) with around 30% of the precipitations in the winter period and the remaining 70% in the summer and in general they are more abundant in the occident of the country that in the east.

A very significant element in the climate of Cuba are the hurricanes that affect the country average once every two years. The hurricanes or tropical hurricanes are areas of drops pressures of among 300-500 km of diameter that cause winds, rains and extremely strong sea surf that usually have catastrophic effects in the regions for where they cross. The season of hurricanes extends from June to November, but they are the months of September and October the most dangerous so much for the frequency in passing of hurricanes as for the intensity of them.