Climate averages 1991–2020
Masaya weather
in April.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Masaya: daytime highs average 32.6°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 23 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Granada, Nicaragua (16 km away). In April its highs average 32.1°C, about as warm as Masaya, with 20 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Nicaragua, Masaya ranks 4th of 7 for the warmest April highs and joint 2nd of 7 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 7 cities is 32.9°C; Masaya is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 20 mm to 175 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Masaya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 11.512 h |
| February | 30.6°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 2.3 | 0.7 | 11.712 h |
| March | 31.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 32.6°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.412 h |
| May | 30.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 175 | 18.5 | 12.713 h |
| June | 29.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 191 | 24.6 | 12.813 h |
| July | 29.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 115 | 20.8 | 12.813 h |
| August | 29.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 140 | 22.3 | 12.513 h |
| September | 28.9°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 196 | 25.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 221 | 25.2 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 68 | 10.9 | 11.612 h |
| December | 29.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 9.3 | 2.4 | 11.411 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
April in nearby cities
- Granada, Nicaragua in AprilNicaragua · 16 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 20 mm rain
- Managua in AprilNicaragua · 24 kmHigh 35.7°C · Low 24.9°C · 13 mm rain
- León, Nicaragua in AprilNicaragua · 99 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 25.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Matagalpa in AprilNicaragua · 108 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 20.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Estelí in AprilNicaragua · 128 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 20.5°C · 36 mm rain
- Chinandega in AprilNicaragua · 134 kmHigh 33.8°C · Low 26.0°C · 36 mm rain
- Ciudad Choluteca in AprilHonduras · 189 kmHigh 36.4°C · Low 25.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Danlí in AprilHonduras · 235 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 20.1°C · 32 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 Masaya) is explained once on the Masaya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Granada, Nicaragua lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.