Climate averages 1991–2020
San Pedro Sula weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in San Pedro Sula: daytime highs average 26.0°C and nights cool to about 19.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Choloma (14 km away). In January its highs average 26.4°C, about as warm as San Pedro Sula, with 140 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Honduras, San Pedro Sula ranks 9th of 13 for the warmest January highs and joint 9th of 13 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 13 cities is 26.5°C; San Pedro Sula is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 90 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
San Pedro Sula climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.0°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 140 | 17.9 | 11.311 h |
| February | 27.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 90 | 13.9 | 11.612 h |
| March | 29.3°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 82 | 11.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.7°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 62 | 12.1 | 12.512 h |
| May | 31.8°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 146 | 21.5 | 12.813 h |
| June | 30.8°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 203 | 26.2 | 13.013 h |
| July | 30.0°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 182 | 27.4 | 13.013 h |
| August | 30.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 171 | 27.8 | 12.613 h |
| September | 30.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 205 | 27.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.7°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 256 | 26.0 | 11.812 h |
| November | 26.7°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 242 | 22.4 | 11.411 h |
| December | 26.2°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 146 | 20.4 | 11.211 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Choloma in JanuaryHonduras · 14 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 20.6°C · 140 mm rain
- El Progreso in JanuaryHonduras · 27 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.8°C · 137 mm rain
- Puerto Cortez in JanuaryHonduras · 37 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 21.3°C · 214 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Yojoa in JanuaryHonduras · 60 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 17.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Puerto Barrios in JanuaryGuatemala · 66 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 20.8°C · 244 mm rain
- Siguatepeque in JanuaryHonduras · 103 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 50 mm rain
- La Ceiba in JanuaryHonduras · 136 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 224 mm rain
- Olanchito in JanuaryHonduras · 156 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 124 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for San Pedro Sula) is explained once on the San Pedro Sula year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Choloma lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.