Climate averages 1991–2020
Tocoa weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: one of the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Tocoa: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 18 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Olanchito (65 km away). In January its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Tocoa, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Honduras, Tocoa ranks 4th of 13 for the warmest January highs and 11th of 13 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 13 cities is 26.5°C; Tocoa is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 145 mm to 83 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
Tocoa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.8°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 145 | 17.2 | 11.311 h |
| February | 28.1°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 83 | 11.6 | 11.612 h |
| March | 29.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 76 | 10.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 32.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 46 | 8.3 | 12.512 h |
| May | 32.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 108 | 15.5 | 12.913 h |
| June | 32.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 121 | 18.0 | 13.013 h |
| July | 31.6°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 102 | 18.7 | 13.013 h |
| August | 31.8°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 129 | 21.9 | 12.613 h |
| September | 31.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 174 | 24.3 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 281 | 25.9 | 11.812 h |
| November | 27.3°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 254 | 22.9 | 11.411 h |
| December | 26.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 166 | 20.6 | 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
- Olanchito in JanuaryHonduras · 65 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 124 mm rain
- La Ceiba in JanuaryHonduras · 84 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 224 mm rain
- Catacamas in JanuaryHonduras · 93 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.6°C · 19 mm rain
- Danlí in JanuaryHonduras · 194 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.6°C · 15 mm rain
- El Progreso in JanuaryHonduras · 195 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.8°C · 137 mm rain
- Puerto Cortez in JanuaryHonduras · 207 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 21.3°C · 214 mm rain
- Choloma in JanuaryHonduras · 209 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 20.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Yojoa in JanuaryHonduras · 217 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 17.6°C · 74 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 Tocoa) is explained once on the Tocoa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.