Climate and average weather in Danlí

In Danlí, the weather is hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Danlí typically varies from 17°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 34°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Danlí for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
32°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Oct
190 mm
Driest
Feb
9 mm
Rain / yr
1104 mm
163 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
763 m
14.0°N
Clearest
Mar
44% cloud

Danlí is human settlement in Honduras.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Danlí weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Danlí, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Danlí stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 32°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 17°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in April.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2617
Feb2817
Mar3018
Apr3219
May3120
Jun2920
Jul2820
Aug2920
Sep2919
Oct2819
Nov2718
Dec2617

How hot and cold Danlí really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Danlí feels like about 32°C (around May 5). About 11 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan26261717
Feb28281717
Mar30301818
Apr32321919
May32312020
Jun30292020
Jul29282020
Aug30292020
Sep31291919
Oct29281919
Nov27271818
Dec26261717

Average hourly temperature in Danlí

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 17°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Danlí weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan26° / 17°15511.37.5
Feb28° / 17°93.611.57.2
Mar30° / 18°123.111.96.0
Apr32° / 19°32612.34.5
May31° / 20°17017.612.63.6
Jun29° / 20°18523.212.83.8
Jul28° / 20°11220.812.74.6
Aug29° / 20°12821.512.54.1
Sep29° / 19°17122.712.13.7
Oct28° / 19°19021.611.74.5
Nov27° / 18°6011.911.36.2
Dec26° / 17°196.111.27.3

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Danlí gets about 1104 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.0 months, from around May 9 to Nov 8, peaking in September at about 80% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 20.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 190 mm over about 22 wet days; February is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 25 · 80%Mar 20 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb134
Mar103
Apr206
May5718
Jun7623
Jul6821
Aug6922
Sep7623
Oct6922
Nov3912
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Danlí collects about 1104 mm of rain across 163 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 190 mm, while February is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15912321701851121281711906019
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan155
Feb94
Mar123
Apr326
May17018
Jun18523
Jul11221
Aug12822
Sep17123
Oct19022
Nov6012
Dec196

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Danlí, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 15 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 29. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 70% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 30 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around November 14. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 7 · 71%May 30 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb6931
Mar7030
Apr5842
May2575
Jun1783
Jul2971
Aug3268
Sep2476
Oct2377
Nov4357
Dec5941

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 30, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:185:33
Feb11.56:155:47
Mar11.95:595:53
Apr12.35:375:56
May12.65:236:02
Jun12.85:226:11
Jul12.75:296:15
Aug12.55:366:05
Sep12.15:385:43
Oct11.75:415:22
Nov11.35:515:12
Dec11.26:075:18

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Danlí averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Dec 1 to Apr 29. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 1 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the March peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedMar 413 daysJun 141 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Danlí, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around May 9 to December 7. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 8 to May 8, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 62% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 23 · 65%Jun 15 · 0%humidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan7345640
Feb9434710
Mar13493630
Apr94038120
May21227554
Jun0013844
Jul0020790
Aug0016831
Sep009883
Oct0115812
Nov11145430
Dec22360150

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Danlí is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Nov 16 to Apr 23. The windiest month is February, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 9 to Nov 15, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 8 · 10 km/hSep 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul9calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Danlí

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Danlí's rainy season runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Danlí

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Danlí throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Danlí is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Danlí for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 19 · 7.6

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.5ideal
Feb7.2good
Mar6.0good
Apr4.6fair
May3.7fair
Jun3.8fair
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct4.5fair
Nov6.2good
Dec7.2good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Danlí for hot-weather activities is from late November to late April, with a peak score in the first week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 6 · 8.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Danlí, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Danlí packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Danlí sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Danlí by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Danlí peaks around April 10 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 10UV 14Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Danlí

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan75
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Danlí by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Danlí is worst in April — around 33 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 6.3× the cleanest month (December, 5 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 2232 µg/m³Dec 235 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan5Good
Feb6Good
Mar10Good
Apr33Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov7Good
Dec5Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Danlí is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Danlí banks about 4,924 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan357
Feb347
Mar429
Apr465
May478
Jun427
Jul424
Aug436
Sep427
Oct413
Nov363
Dec357

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Danlí receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Feb 19 to Sep 23. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 146.3 kWhDec 54.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Danlí?

Danlí sits at 14.0°N, 86.6°W, 763 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is El Paraíso, 19 km away.

OcotalJalapaSan Juan de FloresSomotoTegucigalpa

Topography around Danlí

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Danlí.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Danlí has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 427 m around an average of 824 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,185 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,205 m.

The land around Danlí is covered by trees (38%), grassland (37%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, trees (65%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
427 m
16 km
1,185 m
80 km
2,205 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: El Paraíso 19 km · Teupasenti 24 km · Morocelí 32 km · Ocotal 46 km · Jalapa 51 km · San Juan de Flores 55 km · Somoto 61 km · Tegucigalpa 67 km

Honduras travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 46% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,598
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
66%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
31.4
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
16.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 553
Religion
Evangelical 55%Roman Catholic 33%none 10%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Danlí (14.0333°, -86.5833°, elevation 763 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).