Soyapango climate

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Soyapango is warmest in March, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. September is the wettest month (292 mm) and January the driest (2.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Soyapango averages 1,494 mm of rain and 354 days above 25 °C.

El Salvador · population 329,708 · 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 March 31 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month January 2 mm
Wettest month September 292 mm
Least cloud February 23 % cloud
Hottest on record April 37 °C
Coldest on record December 13 °C

What to expectSoyapango through the year

Soyapango changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 354 days a year reach 25 °C, 119 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 292 mm against 2 mm in January — 142 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.8 °C	2 mm	24 %
February	30.8 °C	2 mm	23 %
March	31.3 °C	10 mm	29 %
April	30.8 °C	46 mm	45 %
May	29.1 °C	211 mm	73 %
June	28.1 °C	241 mm	84 %
July	29.3 °C	179 mm	74 %
August	28.8 °C	224 mm	77 %
September	27.5 °C	292 mm	84 %
October	27.4 °C	231 mm	75 %
November	28.3 °C	48 mm	48 %
December	29.3 °C	7 mm	27 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.8 °C	19.6 °C	23.9 °C	34.0 °C	14.2 °C	31	14
February	30.8 °C	20.2 °C	24.7 °C	36.2 °C	14.8 °C	28	20
March	31.3 °C	21.0 °C	25.3 °C	35.3 °C	14.7 °C	31	23
April	30.8 °C	22.0 °C	25.7 °C	37.0 °C	17.0 °C	30	18
May	29.1 °C	22.0 °C	24.8 °C	36.3 °C	18.3 °C	30	8
June	28.1 °C	21.6 °C	24.2 °C	33.3 °C	19.9 °C	28	4
July	29.3 °C	21.6 °C	24.7 °C	35.0 °C	19.2 °C	30	10
August	28.8 °C	21.6 °C	24.5 °C	34.3 °C	19.6 °C	30	8
September	27.5 °C	21.3 °C	23.7 °C	31.9 °C	19.6 °C	27	2
October	27.4 °C	20.9 °C	23.5 °C	31.6 °C	16.0 °C	28	1
November	28.3 °C	20.1 °C	23.6 °C	33.0 °C	13.8 °C	29	2
December	29.3 °C	19.7 °C	23.8 °C	32.8 °C	13.3 °C	31	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	1	11 h/day	24 %	63 %	14 km/h
February	2 mm	1	12 h/day	23 %	61 %	13 km/h
March	10 mm	3	12 h/day	29 %	62 %	13 km/h
April	46 mm	10	12 h/day	45 %	70 %	12 km/h
May	211 mm	24	13 h/day	73 %	81 %	9.0 km/h
June	241 mm	26	13 h/day	84 %	85 %	8.2 km/h
July	179 mm	22	13 h/day	74 %	80 %	8.5 km/h
August	224 mm	26	13 h/day	77 %	82 %	8.3 km/h
September	292 mm	28	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	8.1 km/h
October	231 mm	23	12 h/day	75 %	85 %	8.7 km/h
November	48 mm	8	11 h/day	48 %	74 %	12 km/h
December	7 mm	2	11 h/day	27 %	66 %	13 km/h

How Soyapango 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
Soyapango	31 °C	20 °C	1,494 mm	354
San Salvador · El Salvador	32 °C	19 °C	1,542 mm	357
Santa Ana · El Salvador	32 °C	19 °C	1,030 mm	356
San Miguel · El Salvador	36 °C	22 °C	1,766 mm	365
Jalapa · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	1,124 mm	143
Villa Canales · Guatemala	28 °C	15 °C	1,624 mm	270

Where Soyapango ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in February	4th of 50	2.3 mm
The driest places in North America in January	4th of 50	2.1 mm
The warmest places in North America in February	10th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	10th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	12th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	15th of 50	29 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Soyapango’s climate

When is the best time to visit Soyapango?

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

How hot does Soyapango get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 119 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Soyapango?

September, averaging 292 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is January with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,494 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 Soyapango 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: 13.710°, -89.140° (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.