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.

Average high 26.8°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 145 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tocoa · average highYear overview

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

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tocoa, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 26.8°C19.8°C19.8°C14517.211.311 h
February 28.1°C19.9°C19.9°C8311.611.612 h
March 29.9°C20.6°C20.6°C7610.212.012 h
April 32.4°C22.3°C22.3°C468.312.512 h
May 32.5°C23.4°C23.4°C10815.512.913 h
June 32.0°C23.7°C23.7°C12118.013.013 h
July 31.6°C23.2°C23.2°C10218.713.013 h
August 31.8°C23.2°C23.2°C12921.912.613 h
September 31.4°C23.1°C23.1°C17424.312.212 h
October 29.1°C22.4°C22.4°C28125.911.812 h
November 27.3°C21.3°C21.3°C25422.911.411 h
December 26.8°C20.4°C20.4°C16620.611.211 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

Distance from Tocoa

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 limits

How 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.