Santa Ana climate

Name: Santa Ana
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Santa Ana is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. September is the wettest month (220 mm) and February the driest (1.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Santa Ana averages 1,030 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

El Salvador · population 176,661 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 32 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month February 2 mm
Wettest month September 220 mm
Least cloud February 24 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record December 11 °C

What to expectSanta Ana through the year

Santa Ana changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 166 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 220 mm against 2 mm in February — 138 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.7 °C	2 mm	25 %
February	31.0 °C	2 mm	24 %
March	32.0 °C	7 mm	29 %
April	32.4 °C	32 mm	44 %
May	30.5 °C	141 mm	73 %
June	28.7 °C	198 mm	83 %
July	29.9 °C	102 mm	74 %
August	30.0 °C	129 mm	77 %
September	28.5 °C	220 mm	83 %
October	27.9 °C	163 mm	74 %
November	28.5 °C	30 mm	49 %
December	29.3 °C	6 mm	29 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.7 °C	18.5 °C	23.2 °C	34.5 °C	12.1 °C	30	14
February	31.0 °C	19.1 °C	24.1 °C	36.3 °C	13.5 °C	28	21
March	32.0 °C	19.9 °C	25.1 °C	37.7 °C	11.9 °C	31	27
April	32.4 °C	21.3 °C	26.0 °C	38.1 °C	15.7 °C	30	27
May	30.5 °C	21.5 °C	25.3 °C	36.8 °C	16.8 °C	31	18
June	28.7 °C	21.1 °C	24.2 °C	33.5 °C	18.9 °C	29	6
July	29.9 °C	21.1 °C	24.8 °C	35.5 °C	18.7 °C	30	15
August	30.0 °C	21.2 °C	24.8 °C	35.7 °C	18.7 °C	31	15
September	28.5 °C	20.8 °C	23.9 °C	35.7 °C	18.4 °C	28	6
October	27.9 °C	20.2 °C	23.4 °C	31.9 °C	13.7 °C	29	2
November	28.5 °C	19.4 °C	23.3 °C	33.9 °C	11.3 °C	29	5
December	29.3 °C	18.8 °C	23.3 °C	34.1 °C	10.7 °C	30	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	0	11 h/day	25 %	63 %	16 km/h
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	24 %	61 %	15 km/h
March	7 mm	2	12 h/day	29 %	60 %	15 km/h
April	32 mm	7	12 h/day	44 %	63 %	12 km/h
May	141 mm	20	13 h/day	73 %	74 %	9.7 km/h
June	198 mm	24	13 h/day	83 %	81 %	8.9 km/h
July	102 mm	17	13 h/day	74 %	74 %	10 km/h
August	129 mm	20	13 h/day	77 %	75 %	9.6 km/h
September	220 mm	26	12 h/day	83 %	82 %	8.6 km/h
October	163 mm	19	12 h/day	74 %	81 %	9.8 km/h
November	30 mm	5	11 h/day	49 %	71 %	14 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	29 %	66 %	15 km/h

How Santa Ana compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Santa Ana	32 °C	19 °C	1,030 mm	356
San Salvador · El Salvador	32 °C	19 °C	1,542 mm	357
Soyapango · El Salvador	31 °C	20 °C	1,494 mm	354
Jalapa · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	1,124 mm	143
Villa Canales · Guatemala	28 °C	15 °C	1,624 mm	270
Villa Nueva · Guatemala	28 °C	14 °C	1,611 mm	220
Guatemala City · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	723 mm	148

Where Santa Ana ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in February	2nd of 50	1.6 mm
The driest places in North America in January	3rd of 50	2.0 mm
The warmest places in North America in March	6th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	7th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in April	12th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	13th of 50	29 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Santa Ana.

QuestionsCommon questions about Santa Ana’s climate

When is the best time to visit Santa Ana?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, November, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Santa Ana get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 166 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Santa Ana?

September, averaging 220 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is February with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,030 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Santa Ana rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 13.988°, -89.557° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.