Climate averages 1991–2020

Tocoa weather
in May.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 32.5°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 23.4°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 108 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a hot month in Tocoa: daytime highs average 32.5°C and nights cool to about 23.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the 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 Olanchito (65 km away). In May its highs average 31.9°C, 0.6°C cooler than Tocoa, with 144 mm of rain.

Among the 13 cities listed in Honduras, Tocoa ranks 2nd of 13 for the warmest May highs and 2nd of 13 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 13 cities is 30.9°C; Tocoa is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 32.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 108 mm to 121 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	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, selected	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

May 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.