Climate and average weather in El Negrito

In El Negrito, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in El Negrito typically varies from 18°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 36°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit El Negrito for warm-weather activities are from early January to early April and early December to late December.

Hottest
May
32°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
Oct
254 mm
Driest
Apr
45 mm
Rain / yr
1815 mm
241 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
231 m
15.3°N
Clearest
Mar
42% cloud

El Negrito is human settlement in Honduras.

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

El Negrito 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 early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in El Negrito stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 32°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 18°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2618
Feb2718
Mar2919
Apr3121
May3222
Jun3122
Jul3022
Aug3022
Sep3022
Oct2921
Nov2620
Dec2619

How hot and cold El Negrito 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, El Negrito feels like about 36°C (around June 2). About 200 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan26261818
Feb28271818
Mar31291919
Apr34312121
May36322222
Jun35312222
Jul33302222
Aug34302222
Sep34302222
Oct31292121
Nov27262020
Dec26261919

Average hourly temperature in El Negrito

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 May afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

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

El Negrito 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° / 18°951711.25.7
Feb27° / 18°6012.811.56.1
Mar29° / 19°559.611.95.7
Apr31° / 21°4510.212.34.4
May32° / 22°13318.912.73.2
Jun31° / 22°20724.712.92.8
Jul30° / 22°20126.712.83.1
Aug30° / 22°21327.312.53.0
Sep30° / 22°24426.812.12.9
Oct29° / 21°25425.511.73.6
Nov26° / 20°1982211.34.6
Dec26° / 19°11019.611.15.3

Chance of rain

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

El Negrito gets about 1815 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.6 months, from around May 22 to Dec 7, peaking in August at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 30.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 254 mm over about 26 wet days; April is the driest, with 45 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 5 · 90%Mar 30 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5517
Feb4513
Mar3210
Apr3410
May6119
Jun8225
Jul8627
Aug8827
Sep8827
Oct8326
Nov7322
Dec6320

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, El Negrito collects about 1815 mm of rain across 241 wet days — roughly 151 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 254 mm, while April is the driest at just 45 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec95605545133207201213244254198110
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan9517
Feb6013
Mar5510
Apr4510
May13319
Jun20725
Jul20127
Aug21327
Sep24427
Oct25426
Nov19822
Dec11020

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In El Negrito, 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 December 5 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around May 11. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 12 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around December 4. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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 29 · 77%Sep 26 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb6832
Mar7525
Apr6931
May3664
Jun1882
Jul2575
Aug2674
Sep1882
Oct2278
Nov3367
Dec4456

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 June 3, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:255:36
Feb11.56:215:50
Mar11.96:045:57
Apr12.35:416:01
May12.75:266:08
Jun12.95:246:18
Jul12.85:326:21
Aug12.55:396:10
Sep12.15:435:48
Oct11.75:465:25
Nov11.35:585:14
Dec11.16:145:20

Sunny days

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

El Negrito 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 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Dec 17 to May 11. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightMar 2516 daysSep 181 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb11Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr12Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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.

El Negrito is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is April, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 95% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 3% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan31770100
Feb11274120
Mar21260260
Apr0545500
May0116811
Jun002953
Jul001991
Aug000982
Sep001973
Oct0114841
Nov1642510
Dec11262260

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.

Wind in El Negrito is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 30 · 5 km/hSep 25 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for El Negrito

In seasonPeak

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

El Negrito sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

El Negrito's rainy season runs May–November, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit El Negrito

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, El Negrito is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 El Negrito for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 23 · 6.3

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
Jan5.7good
Feb6.1good
Mar5.7good
Apr4.4fair
May3.2poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec5.3fair

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 El Negrito for hot-weather activities is from mid February to late April, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 23 · 7.4

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 El Negrito, 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.

For a warm-season trip around May (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, El Negrito sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

Sea temperature near El Negrito

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 65 km away) is warmest in September at about 30°C and coldest in January near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr28Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in El Negrito 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 El Negrito peaks around March 24 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 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 highMar 24UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in El Negrito

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in El Negrito 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 El Negrito is worst in April — around 70 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.0× the cleanest month (December, 10 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodApr 1967 µg/m³Dec 1710 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr70Unhealthy
May53Poor
Jun22Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

El Negrito 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. El Negrito banks about 5,336 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan366
Feb354
Mar436
Apr483
May526
Jun498
Jul485
Aug487
Sep476
Oct459
Nov390
Dec376

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.

El Negrito receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around Feb 21 to Sep 26. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is November, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 206.3 kWhNov 273.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.8Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.0Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.6Moderate

Where is El Negrito?

El Negrito sits at 15.3°N, 87.7°W, 231 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is El Progreso, 14 km away.

San Pedro SulaSanta Cruz de YojoaCholoma

Topography around El Negrito

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Negrito has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 619 m around an average of 271 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,824 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,713 m.

The land around El Negrito is covered by trees (47%) and grassland (43%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (67%) within 80 km.

3 km
619 m
16 km
1,824 m
80 km
2,713 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: El Progreso 14 km · Santa Rita 24 km · La Lima 27 km · Potrerillos 30 km · Villanueva 32 km · San Pedro Sula 41 km · Santa Cruz de Yojoa 43 km · Choloma 43 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 El Negrito (15.3167°, -87.7°, elevation 231 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).