Macuelizo climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Macuelizo?

Macuelizo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 1,982 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Macuelizo?

The hottest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 26 March 2024, reaching 39.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Macuelizo?

The coldest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 6 December 1945, at 6.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Macuelizo?

Almost never: Macuelizo sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Macuelizo warmed?

Yes: Macuelizo warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Macuelizo?

The wettest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 1 June 1977, with 172 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Macuelizo?

The windiest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 1983, with winds reaching 19.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Macuelizo?

The warmest month in Macuelizo is May (24.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (20.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Macuelizo?

Macuelizo receives on average 1,982 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 259 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Macuelizo?

Macuelizo gets on average 9.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,395 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Macuelizo (Honduras) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 1,982 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is May (24.5 °C on average) and the coldest is January (20.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in September.

Macuelizo averages 0 frost days, 71 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 259 rainy days per year.

Macuelizo has warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.26 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 39.4 °C (on 26 March 2024) and the coldest 6.3 °C (on 6 December 1945).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

MacuelizoSanta Bárbara Department

coords: 15.31°, -88.54°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthMayColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthSeptemberDriest monthMarch

Mean daily temperature

22.6°C

Average daily high

27.3°C

Average daily low

19.1°C

Annual rainfall

1,982mm

Sunshine / day

9.3h

Mean relative humidity

87%

Average peak wind

7.7km/h

Seasonal range

4.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

71 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

259 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

31.6 °C

Average feels-like low

21.9 °C

Average peak gust

27.3 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

142 d/yr

Solar radiation

17.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.2 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.77 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

39.4 °C

26 March 2024

Coldest day

6.3 °C

6 December 1945

Wettest day

172 mm

1 June 1977

Windiest day

19.8 km/h

16 March 1983

Strongest gust

67.7 km/h

21 November 1971

Hottest feels-like

44.0 °C

26 May 2024

Coldest feels-like

4.6 °C

6 December 1945

Sunniest day

12.4 h

25 May 1946

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	37.0 °C20 May 2025	14.0 °C18 January 2025	23.9 °C	1,856 mm	122
2024	39.4 °C26 March 2024	11.3 °C23 February 2024	24.6 °C	2,058 mm	194
2023	36.6 °C4 June 2023	12.0 °C16 January 2023	24.3 °C	1,922 mm	177
2022	36.0 °C6 April 2022	14.4 °C1 February 2022	23.6 °C	2,119 mm	111
2021	36.6 °C4 May 2021	13.6 °C4 February 2021	23.8 °C	1,682 mm	157
2020	37.9 °C12 April 2020	13.5 °C23 January 2020	24.0 °C	2,420 mm	174
2019	36.6 °C13 April 2019	12.4 °C29 January 2019	23.9 °C	1,464 mm	171
2018	35.4 °C30 May 2018	12.3 °C8 January 2018	23.3 °C	1,658 mm	111
2017	36.7 °C27 April 2017	11.9 °C25 January 2017	23.5 °C	2,171 mm	133
2016	36.6 °C30 April 2016	12.1 °C25 January 2016	23.6 °C	1,848 mm	138
2015	37.8 °C28 April 2015	12.9 °C11 February 2015	23.6 °C	1,801 mm	82
2014	35.6 °C7 April 2014	10.4 °C17 January 2014	23.1 °C	2,033 mm	87
2013	36.1 °C24 March 2013	10.7 °C4 March 2013	23.4 °C	2,023 mm	105
2012	34.1 °C9 May 2012	11.6 °C25 December 2012	23.0 °C	1,886 mm	84
2011	35.8 °C27 April 2011	12.6 °C23 March 2011	23.2 °C	2,003 mm	136
2010	36.1 °C11 March 2010	10.1 °C16 December 2010	23.1 °C	2,063 mm	135
2009	35.5 °C2 April 2009	11.7 °C3 March 2009	23.1 °C	1,636 mm	94
2008	35.4 °C15 May 2008	12.4 °C14 December 2008	22.7 °C	2,103 mm	99
2007	36.1 °C14 April 2007	11.6 °C21 February 2007	23.0 °C	1,677 mm	109
2006	34.2 °C18 April 2006	11.9 °C16 January 2006	22.9 °C	2,007 mm	87
2005	36.5 °C27 March 2005	9.3 °C25 November 2005	23.2 °C	2,166 mm	126
2004	34.3 °C12 April 2004	12.3 °C25 January 2004	22.7 °C	1,855 mm	73
2003	38.5 °C30 April 2003	11.3 °C8 December 2003	22.9 °C	1,925 mm	114
2002	34.0 °C2 May 2002	8.8 °C10 January 2002	22.8 °C	1,614 mm	51
2001	34.2 °C29 March 2001	9.9 °C24 January 2001	22.2 °C	1,867 mm	50
2000	35.2 °C24 April 2000	10.4 °C28 January 2000	22.1 °C	1,771 mm	40
1999	35.1 °C7 May 1999	9.6 °C29 December 1999	22.2 °C	2,155 mm	55
1998	36.8 °C8 April 1998	8.8 °C4 February 1998	23.5 °C	2,130 mm	114
1997	35.6 °C26 April 1997	10.8 °C21 January 1997	23.1 °C	1,783 mm	58
1996	33.2 °C13 April 1996	7.8 °C13 March 1996	22.4 °C	2,180 mm	49
1995	34.3 °C19 April 1995	12.2 °C1 January 1995	23.1 °C	1,965 mm	93
1994	35.0 °C28 March 1994	11.8 °C5 March 1994	22.8 °C	1,583 mm	74
1993	36.8 °C15 April 1993	10.5 °C20 March 1993	22.8 °C	1,876 mm	68
1992	35.4 °C19 April 1992	14.1 °C4 May 1992	22.8 °C	1,782 mm	68
1991	37.2 °C23 April 1991	11.0 °C13 February 1991	23.0 °C	1,788 mm	87
1990	33.0 °C21 May 1990	14.0 °C23 March 1990	22.7 °C	1,955 mm	43
1989	33.4 °C4 March 1989	10.5 °C27 February 1989	22.6 °C	1,871 mm	61
1988	37.1 °C30 April 1988	12.0 °C2 March 1988	22.9 °C	2,182 mm	100
1987	36.7 °C23 March 1987	10.8 °C7 January 1987	22.6 °C	1,681 mm	71
1986	35.0 °C15 March 1986	11.6 °C6 March 1986	22.2 °C	1,736 mm	48
1985	34.1 °C21 March 1985	11.7 °C28 January 1985	22.5 °C	1,665 mm	52
1984	37.1 °C4 May 1984	10.3 °C25 November 1984	22.5 °C	2,117 mm	66
1983	34.6 °C23 April 1983	14.2 °C14 February 1983	23.2 °C	2,100 mm	98
1982	33.3 °C9 April 1982	13.6 °C22 December 1982	22.9 °C	1,832 mm	70
1981	33.6 °C10 June 1981	8.1 °C1 January 1981	22.5 °C	2,171 mm	71
1980	34.2 °C9 May 1980	9.2 °C29 December 1980	22.7 °C	2,045 mm	65
1979	34.3 °C11 April 1979	12.9 °C3 January 1979	22.7 °C	2,519 mm	58
1978	36.3 °C2 May 1978	8.0 °C7 February 1978	22.5 °C	2,274 mm	49
1977	34.5 °C28 March 1977	10.7 °C24 January 1977	22.4 °C	1,905 mm	44
1976	33.3 °C7 April 1976	12.1 °C11 February 1976	21.8 °C	2,074 mm	33
1975	35.5 °C6 May 1975	9.1 °C23 December 1975	22.5 °C	2,042 mm	79
1974	36.2 °C12 May 1974	12.9 °C13 February 1974	22.2 °C	2,124 mm	59
1973	37.1 °C3 April 1973	10.3 °C18 December 1973	22.7 °C	1,934 mm	68
1972	35.0 °C30 March 1972	12.5 °C28 December 1972	22.6 °C	2,099 mm	45
1971	34.1 °C23 April 1971	12.5 °C15 February 1971	22.3 °C	1,934 mm	43
1970	34.6 °C19 April 1970	12.6 °C5 February 1970	22.2 °C	2,053 mm	65
1969	37.8 °C4 May 1969	14.1 °C6 December 1969	22.7 °C	2,323 mm	67
1968	33.3 °C6 May 1968	11.8 °C29 February 1968	22.0 °C	2,315 mm	42
1967	33.5 °C31 May 1967	11.1 °C18 March 1967	22.1 °C	2,193 mm	37
1966	31.8 °C4 April 1966	10.9 °C22 December 1966	21.9 °C	2,542 mm	23
1965	36.6 °C26 April 1965	12.2 °C9 January 1965	22.3 °C	1,942 mm	72
1964	37.6 °C3 May 1964	13.1 °C20 January 1964	22.5 °C	1,747 mm	55
1963	33.1 °C14 June 1963	9.3 °C7 February 1963	22.0 °C	1,952 mm	44
1962	34.3 °C11 March 1962	11.5 °C17 December 1962	21.7 °C	2,085 mm	40
1961	35.8 °C15 April 1961	12.2 °C26 December 1961	21.8 °C	2,199 mm	45
1960	34.6 °C2 April 1960	8.4 °C31 January 1960	21.6 °C	2,172 mm	47
1959	32.8 °C21 April 1959	11.4 °C10 February 1959	21.6 °C	2,006 mm	27
1958	34.6 °C5 April 1958	11.0 °C5 February 1958	22.3 °C	1,894 mm	55
1957	35.4 °C23 March 1957	10.4 °C11 December 1957	22.0 °C	1,983 mm	56
1956	34.9 °C9 April 1956	9.3 °C15 January 1956	21.2 °C	2,122 mm	25
1955	36.2 °C28 April 1955	12.5 °C6 May 1955	21.7 °C	1,742 mm	54
1954	33.1 °C13 March 1954	12.1 °C20 December 1954	21.6 °C	2,314 mm	17
1953	36.8 °C12 April 1953	10.2 °C11 January 1953	22.6 °C	2,298 mm	64
1952	34.7 °C26 March 1952	11.3 °C6 February 1952	22.2 °C	2,022 mm	54
1951	35.5 °C7 April 1951	9.8 °C12 January 1951	22.1 °C	1,805 mm	42
1950	32.3 °C16 May 1950	11.9 °C13 December 1950	21.1 °C	2,093 mm	27
1949	36.0 °C4 April 1949	12.6 °C2 January 1949	21.6 °C	1,533 mm	30
1948	35.5 °C1 April 1948	12.3 °C15 January 1948	21.8 °C	2,132 mm	20
1947	33.1 °C25 April 1947	9.5 °C16 February 1947	22.1 °C	1,814 mm	34
1946	32.2 °C14 May 1946	12.9 °C24 March 1946	21.6 °C	1,910 mm	37
1945	36.7 °C25 April 1945	6.3 °C6 December 1945	21.7 °C	2,068 mm	38
1944	34.2 °C16 April 1944	10.7 °C8 January 1944	21.5 °C	1,868 mm	45
1943	30.5 °C13 April 1943	10.0 °C22 December 1943	21.0 °C	2,051 mm	1
1942	32.7 °C13 May 1942	13.5 °C25 January 1942	21.4 °C	2,410 mm	16
1941	35.3 °C6 May 1941	8.5 °C13 February 1941	21.6 °C	1,777 mm	30
1940	33.7 °C18 April 1940	12.2 °C19 February 1940	21.6 °C	1,963 mm	45

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

28.7 °C

+1.4 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

122 d/yr

+51

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1856 mm

-126 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	25.2 °C	+1.1 °C	169 mm	+60 mm
Feb	27.1 °C	+1.6 °C	80 mm	+4 mm
Mar	29.2 °C	+1.3 °C	68 mm	+1 mm
Apr	29.0 °C	-0.7 °C	63 mm	-12 mm
May	33.5 °C	+3.4 °C	36 mm	-121 mm
Jun	30.8 °C	+1.6 °C	244 mm	-4 mm
Jul	29.3 °C	+1.2 °C	204 mm	-8 mm
Aug	30.1 °C	+1.7 °C	145 mm	-56 mm
Sep	30.1 °C	+1.5 °C	233 mm	-24 mm
Oct	28.6 °C	+1.8 °C	193 mm	-57 mm
Nov	25.6 °C	+0.7 °C	180 mm	-16 mm
Dec	25.6 °C	+1.6 °C	242 mm	+108 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

37.0 °C

20 May 2025

Coldest day

14.0 °C

18 Jan 2025

Wettest day

43.2 mm

15 Dec 2025

Windiest day

12.8 km/h

21 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

43.9 km/h

11 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

41.8 °C

20 May 2025

Coldest feels-like

14.7 °C

18 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.3 h

20 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Macuelizo?

Macuelizo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 1,982 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Macuelizo?

The hottest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 26 March 2024, reaching 39.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Macuelizo?

The coldest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 6 December 1945, at 6.3 °C.

Does it snow in Macuelizo?

Almost never: Macuelizo sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Macuelizo warmed?

Yes: Macuelizo warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Macuelizo?

The wettest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 1 June 1977, with 172 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Macuelizo?

The windiest day measured in Macuelizo between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 1983, with winds reaching 19.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Macuelizo?

The warmest month in Macuelizo is May (24.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (20.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Macuelizo?

Macuelizo receives on average 1,982 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 259 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Macuelizo?

Macuelizo gets on average 9.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,395 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Macuelizo?

Yes: Macuelizo has on average 142 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Macuelizo?

In Macuelizo, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 44.0 °C on 26 May 2024, and the lowest was 4.6 °C on 6 December 1945.

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