Tegucigalpa climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.3 °C and it receives 1,447 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 8 April 2014, reaching 35.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Tegucigalpa?

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

Q: Does it snow in Tegucigalpa?

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

Q: Has the climate of Tegucigalpa warmed?

Yes: Tegucigalpa warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Tegucigalpa?

The wettest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 31 October 1998, with 216 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Tegucigalpa?

The windiest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 1988, with winds reaching 32.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Tegucigalpa?

The warmest month in Tegucigalpa is April (23.3 °C on average); the coldest is December (19.7 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa receives on average 1,447 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Tegucigalpa (Honduras) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.3 °C and it receives 1,447 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 April (23.3 °C on average) and the coldest is December (19.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in September.

Tegucigalpa averages 0 frost days, 33 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 164 rainy days per year.

Tegucigalpa has warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.4 °C (on 8 April 2014) 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

TegucigalpaFrancisco Morazán Department

coords: 14.08°, -87.21°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthAprilColdest monthDecemberWettest monthSeptemberDriest monthFebruary

Mean daily temperature

21.3°C

Average daily high

26.6°C

Average daily low

17.1°C

Annual rainfall

1,447mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

74%

Average peak wind

12.8km/h

Seasonal range

3.6°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

33 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

164 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

28.1 °C

Average feels-like low

18.0 °C

Average peak gust

41.2 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

5 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.0 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.0 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.74 · 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

35.4 °C

8 April 2014

Coldest day

6.3 °C

6 December 1945

Wettest day

216 mm

31 October 1998

Windiest day

32.3 km/h

28 January 1988

Strongest gust

93.2 km/h

29 January 1973

Hottest feels-like

37.1 °C

23 March 2024

Coldest feels-like

3.5 °C

6 December 1945

Sunniest day

12.6 h

29 May 1999

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	32.8 °C20 March 2025	14.4 °C18 January 2025	22.6 °C	1,377 mm	64
2024	33.7 °C10 March 2024	11.3 °C23 February 2024	22.8 °C	1,950 mm	90
2023	33.3 °C15 April 2023	11.8 °C15 January 2023	22.6 °C	1,475 mm	66
2022	32.8 °C2 April 2022	13.5 °C1 February 2022	22.0 °C	2,039 mm	42
2021	31.7 °C5 June 2021	12.4 °C5 February 2021	22.2 °C	1,210 mm	36
2020	34.8 °C10 April 2020	12.3 °C23 January 2020	22.3 °C	2,046 mm	82
2019	33.3 °C28 April 2019	13.4 °C29 January 2019	22.4 °C	1,318 mm	68
2018	33.5 °C12 March 2018	11.5 °C14 December 2018	21.8 °C	1,512 mm	33
2017	33.3 °C6 April 2017	12.5 °C22 January 2017	21.9 °C	1,905 mm	36
2016	34.1 °C23 April 2016	12.5 °C24 January 2016	22.4 °C	1,372 mm	65
2015	34.0 °C22 April 2015	12.9 °C28 January 2015	22.5 °C	1,225 mm	65
2014	35.4 °C8 April 2014	11.7 °C17 January 2014	21.9 °C	1,387 mm	49
2013	33.4 °C19 March 2013	11.3 °C4 March 2013	21.9 °C	1,290 mm	41
2012	31.0 °C31 March 2012	11.7 °C24 December 2012	21.5 °C	1,463 mm	13
2011	32.7 °C30 March 2011	12.6 °C6 January 2011	21.6 °C	1,792 mm	31
2010	33.5 °C28 March 2010	10.7 °C15 December 2010	21.6 °C	2,259 mm	41
2009	34.1 °C6 April 2009	11.1 °C22 January 2009	21.8 °C	1,249 mm	30
2008	32.9 °C14 May 2008	11.7 °C29 November 2008	21.4 °C	1,696 mm	34
2007	33.0 °C2 March 2007	11.6 °C19 February 2007	21.6 °C	1,654 mm	53
2006	33.0 °C9 April 2006	10.2 °C23 November 2006	21.9 °C	1,363 mm	44
2005	33.1 °C20 April 2005	10.8 °C26 November 2005	21.9 °C	1,957 mm	59
2004	33.4 °C7 April 2004	12.4 °C19 January 2004	21.9 °C	1,139 mm	36
2003	33.9 °C7 March 2003	11.4 °C8 December 2003	21.7 °C	1,447 mm	54
2002	33.3 °C2 May 2002	10.0 °C10 January 2002	21.8 °C	1,298 mm	54
2001	31.7 °C13 March 2001	11.1 °C24 January 2001	21.4 °C	1,075 mm	34
2000	31.6 °C4 April 2000	10.8 °C28 January 2000	21.1 °C	1,078 mm	18
1999	32.1 °C14 April 1999	10.1 °C30 December 1999	20.8 °C	1,818 mm	18
1998	33.7 °C13 May 1998	9.3 °C4 February 1998	22.0 °C	2,036 mm	60
1997	32.2 °C3 May 1997	9.5 °C16 December 1997	21.6 °C	1,256 mm	33
1996	33.0 °C19 March 1996	7.7 °C14 January 1996	21.1 °C	1,610 mm	34
1995	33.1 °C8 March 1995	12.3 °C10 February 1995	21.6 °C	1,928 mm	26
1994	32.1 °C12 May 1994	11.4 °C30 December 1994	21.8 °C	1,121 mm	43
1993	32.6 °C5 April 1993	9.8 °C28 January 1993	21.5 °C	1,727 mm	36
1992	33.0 °C7 April 1992	12.2 °C8 January 1992	21.9 °C	1,018 mm	39
1991	33.4 °C16 March 1991	11.5 °C13 February 1991	21.9 °C	1,151 mm	67
1990	33.1 °C7 April 1990	12.5 °C1 January 1990	21.7 °C	1,139 mm	32
1989	32.7 °C10 April 1989	9.7 °C25 December 1989	21.3 °C	1,294 mm	28
1988	32.7 °C8 April 1988	11.5 °C28 January 1988	21.6 °C	1,613 mm	35
1987	33.5 °C14 April 1987	10.5 °C6 January 1987	21.9 °C	1,033 mm	47
1986	32.5 °C13 April 1986	11.3 °C29 January 1986	20.9 °C	1,130 mm	31
1985	32.7 °C23 March 1985	11.9 °C5 January 1985	21.2 °C	1,305 mm	24
1984	31.9 °C30 March 1984	11.2 °C24 November 1984	21.1 °C	1,342 mm	22
1983	33.0 °C21 March 1983	12.0 °C21 March 1983	22.0 °C	1,209 mm	39
1982	32.3 °C28 March 1982	11.8 °C30 December 1982	21.5 °C	1,267 mm	36
1981	32.5 °C28 April 1981	10.2 °C1 January 1981	21.3 °C	1,522 mm	17
1980	32.8 °C4 April 1980	9.2 °C29 December 1980	21.3 °C	1,315 mm	30
1979	32.9 °C13 April 1979	12.7 °C20 December 1979	21.4 °C	1,783 mm	18
1978	32.6 °C10 May 1978	10.6 °C7 February 1978	21.4 °C	1,481 mm	32
1977	32.5 °C13 March 1977	9.1 °C20 January 1977	21.5 °C	1,226 mm	26
1976	30.7 °C31 March 1976	11.0 °C11 February 1976	20.7 °C	1,395 mm	5
1975	32.8 °C12 April 1975	9.1 °C24 December 1975	21.1 °C	1,577 mm	44
1974	31.2 °C21 March 1974	12.0 °C14 November 1974	20.9 °C	1,324 mm	10
1973	34.2 °C1 April 1973	10.1 °C18 December 1973	21.5 °C	1,618 mm	56
1972	32.8 °C1 April 1972	11.6 °C28 December 1972	21.7 °C	1,065 mm	23
1971	33.2 °C11 May 1971	12.3 °C22 January 1971	21.1 °C	1,269 mm	31
1970	32.7 °C1 May 1970	10.1 °C5 February 1970	21.0 °C	1,524 mm	30
1969	33.6 °C25 March 1969	12.9 °C10 January 1969	21.2 °C	1,924 mm	45
1968	33.0 °C3 May 1968	10.6 °C9 February 1968	21.1 °C	1,623 mm	43
1967	32.7 °C16 May 1967	11.8 °C18 March 1967	21.3 °C	1,003 mm	24
1966	33.4 °C29 March 1966	11.1 °C30 November 1966	21.2 °C	1,606 mm	30
1965	32.6 °C12 April 1965	11.2 °C18 January 1965	21.5 °C	1,115 mm	48
1964	33.3 °C21 March 1964	12.1 °C2 January 1964	21.4 °C	1,274 mm	53
1963	32.6 °C30 April 1963	10.2 °C6 February 1963	21.1 °C	1,310 mm	30
1962	32.4 °C6 April 1962	10.9 °C3 January 1962	20.7 °C	1,454 mm	23
1961	32.3 °C10 April 1961	11.9 °C26 December 1961	20.6 °C	1,339 mm	21
1960	31.2 °C23 February 1960	10.3 °C31 January 1960	20.3 °C	1,588 mm	11
1959	32.5 °C19 April 1959	11.5 °C30 November 1959	20.4 °C	1,069 mm	17
1958	33.6 °C6 April 1958	9.6 °C9 February 1958	21.2 °C	1,636 mm	50
1957	30.8 °C22 April 1957	9.9 °C11 December 1957	20.7 °C	1,349 mm	8
1956	31.9 °C18 April 1956	8.6 °C14 January 1956	20.2 °C	1,211 mm	19
1955	32.0 °C29 April 1955	12.3 °C27 December 1955	20.5 °C	1,553 mm	26
1954	31.1 °C21 March 1954	11.1 °C21 December 1954	20.5 °C	2,011 mm	11
1953	31.7 °C14 April 1953	10.0 °C11 January 1953	21.1 °C	1,488 mm	16
1952	32.2 °C16 March 1952	9.6 °C28 February 1952	20.9 °C	1,688 mm	26
1951	31.1 °C8 April 1951	10.6 °C12 January 1951	20.8 °C	1,222 mm	6
1950	31.1 °C30 April 1950	11.0 °C14 December 1950	19.9 °C	1,625 mm	9
1949	30.5 °C19 April 1949	12.0 °C23 January 1949	20.0 °C	1,476 mm	9
1948	31.2 °C29 March 1948	11.9 °C16 January 1948	20.3 °C	1,445 mm	6
1947	31.9 °C13 April 1947	10.4 °C16 February 1947	20.6 °C	1,579 mm	32
1946	31.2 °C1 April 1946	12.6 °C11 January 1946	20.3 °C	896 mm	7
1945	30.3 °C22 April 1945	6.3 °C6 December 1945	20.0 °C	1,704 mm	1
1944	31.4 °C18 April 1944	10.7 °C8 January 1944	20.1 °C	1,376 mm	17
1943	29.3 °C14 April 1943	8.8 °C20 December 1943	19.8 °C	1,364 mm	0
1942	31.7 °C13 April 1942	12.9 °C13 January 1942	20.3 °C	1,716 mm	20
1941	33.5 °C9 April 1941	10.8 °C14 January 1941	20.7 °C	846 mm	26
1940	31.2 °C11 March 1940	12.2 °C23 February 1940	20.7 °C	1,285 mm	18

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.7 °C

+1.1 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

64 d/yr

+31

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1377 mm

-70 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	25.9 °C	+0.6 °C	15 mm	+9 mm
Feb	27.7 °C	+0.7 °C	9 mm	+4 mm
Mar	30.6 °C	+1.7 °C	7 mm	-9 mm
Apr	30.0 °C	+0.4 °C	16 mm	-46 mm
May	29.8 °C	+1.9 °C	90 mm	-154 mm
Jun	26.7 °C	+0.5 °C	285 mm	+32 mm
Jul	27.6 °C	+1.4 °C	61 mm	-70 mm
Aug	28.2 °C	+1.5 °C	128 mm	-47 mm
Sep	28.2 °C	+1.9 °C	357 mm	+84 mm
Oct	26.6 °C	+1.1 °C	346 mm	+127 mm
Nov	25.7 °C	+0.9 °C	46 mm	-8 mm
Dec	25.9 °C	+1.2 °C	20 mm	+8 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

32.8 °C

20 Mar 2025

Coldest day

14.4 °C

18 Jan 2025

Wettest day

79.2 mm

18 Sep 2025

Windiest day

27.4 km/h

25 Jan 2025

Strongest gust

75.2 km/h

25 Jan 2025

Hottest feels-like

35.0 °C

31 May 2025

Coldest feels-like

14.1 °C

18 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.5 h

27 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.3 °C and it receives 1,447 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Tegucigalpa?

The hottest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 8 April 2014, reaching 35.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Tegucigalpa?

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

Does it snow in Tegucigalpa?

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

Has the climate of Tegucigalpa warmed?

Yes: Tegucigalpa warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Tegucigalpa?

The wettest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 31 October 1998, with 216 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Tegucigalpa?

The windiest day measured in Tegucigalpa between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 1988, with winds reaching 32.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Tegucigalpa?

The warmest month in Tegucigalpa is April (23.3 °C on average); the coldest is December (19.7 °C).

How much does it rain in Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa receives on average 1,447 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Tegucigalpa?

Tegucigalpa gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Tegucigalpa?

Yes: Tegucigalpa has on average 5 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Tegucigalpa?

In Tegucigalpa, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 37.1 °C on 23 March 2024, and the lowest was 3.5 °C on 6 December 1945.

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