Climate averages 1991–2020
Panama City weather
in January.
A hot, fairly dry month: the joint 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Panama City: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 40 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is San Miguelito (8 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Panama City, with 17 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Panama, Panama City ranks 3rd of 6 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 6 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 6 cities is 29.0°C; Panama City is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 17 mm to 9.5 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
Panama City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 17 | 4.7 | 11.712 h |
| February | 29.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 9.5 | 2.5 | 11.812 h |
| March | 30.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 12 | 3.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 81 | 13.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 221 | 28.2 | 12.513 h |
| June | 28.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.613 h |
| July | 28.7°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 269 | 30.1 | 12.613 h |
| August | 28.7°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 267 | 30.4 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 257 | 29.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 251 | 30.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 238 | 26.9 | 11.712 h |
| December | 28.6°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 101 | 16.8 | 11.612 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
- San Miguelito in JanuaryPanama · 8 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 17 mm rain
- Juan Díaz in JanuaryPanama · 10 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.9°C · 17 mm rain
- Arraiján in JanuaryPanama · 15 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 29 mm rain
- Colón in JanuaryPanama · 58 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 24.8°C · 63 mm rain
- David in JanuaryPanama · 326 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 21.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Apartadó in JanuaryColombia · 341 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 75 mm rain
- Chigorodó in JanuaryColombia · 345 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.1°C · 101 mm rain
- Montería in JanuaryColombia · 401 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.5°C · 38 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 Panama City) is explained once on the Panama City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
San Miguelito and Juan Díaz lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.