Climate averages 1991–2020
San Pedro Sula weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in San Pedro Sula: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 146 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 51 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Choloma (14 km away). In May its highs average 31.7°C, about as warm as San Pedro Sula, with 146 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Honduras, San Pedro Sula ranks 5th of 13 for the warmest May highs and joint 8th of 13 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 13 cities is 30.9°C; San Pedro Sula is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 146 mm to 203 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Choloma in MayHonduras · 14 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.2°C · 146 mm rain
- El Progreso in MayHonduras · 27 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Puerto Cortez in MayHonduras · 37 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 142 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Yojoa in MayHonduras · 60 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 21.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Puerto Barrios in MayGuatemala · 66 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.3°C · 171 mm rain
- Siguatepeque in MayHonduras · 103 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 18.4°C · 205 mm rain
- La Ceiba in MayHonduras · 136 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 25.0°C · 129 mm rain
- Olanchito in MayHonduras · 156 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 22.7°C · 144 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.