Climate and average weather in Iriona

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

Best: late January to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Iriona typically varies from 23°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 31°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Iriona for warm-weather activities is from late January to early May.

Hottest
Sep
29°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Oct
265 mm
Driest
Apr
35 mm
Rain / yr
1559 mm
232 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
16.0°N
Clearest
Mar
35% cloud

Iriona 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 late January to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Iriona stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 29°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2623
Feb2623
Mar2724
Apr2825
May2925
Jun2925
Jul2925
Aug2925
Sep2926
Oct2825
Nov2724
Dec2624

How hot and cold Iriona 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, Iriona feels like about 35°C (around September 4). About 180 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan26262323
Feb26262323
Mar28272424
Apr31282525
May33292525
Jun34292525
Jul34292525
Aug35292525
Sep35292626
Oct33282525
Nov28272424
Dec26262324

Average hourly temperature in Iriona

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 September afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Iriona 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° / 23°14320.211.25.3
Feb26° / 23°7415.511.55.9
Mar27° / 24°6912.911.96.5
Apr28° / 25°359.612.36.4
May29° / 25°8614.612.75.1
Jun29° / 25°11519.712.94.2
Jul29° / 25°13725.812.93.8
Aug29° / 25°11922.512.54.0
Sep29° / 26°1101912.14.2
Oct28° / 25°26524.311.64.0
Nov27° / 24°25824.311.34.3
Dec26° / 24°14623.111.14.8

Chance of rain

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

Iriona gets about 1559 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 2.7 months, from around Jun 13 to Sep 1, peaking in July at about 84% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 6.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 265 mm over about 24 wet days; April is the driest, with 35 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 16 · 84%Apr 6 · 31%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6620
Feb5516
Mar4213
Apr3210
May4715
Jun6620
Jul8226
Aug7323
Sep6519
Oct7824
Nov8124
Dec7423

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Iriona collects about 1559 mm of rain across 232 wet days — roughly 130 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 265 mm, while April is the driest at just 35 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec14374693586115137119110265258146
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan14320
Feb7416
Mar6913
Apr3510
May8615
Jun11520
Jul13726
Aug11923
Sep11019
Oct26524
Nov25824
Dec14623

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Iriona, 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 4 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around May 14. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 15 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around December 3. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 67% 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 30 · 86%Oct 7 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb8020
Mar8218
Apr8020
May5347
Jun3367
Jul4258
Aug4753
Sep4060
Oct3565
Nov4753
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 June 22, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around December 21, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:155:24
Feb11.56:115:39
Mar11.95:535:47
Apr12.35:305:51
May12.75:145:59
Jun12.95:126:09
Jul12.95:206:12
Aug12.55:286:01
Sep12.15:325:37
Oct11.65:365:14
Nov11.35:485:03
Dec11.16:055:08

Sunny days

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

Iriona averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Jan 8 to May 14. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is October, down near 6 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 2921 daysOct 85 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb16Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr19Bright
May11Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec10Mixed

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.

Iriona 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 January, 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 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan519760
Feb517780
Mar415811
Apr168113
May015247
Jun002377
Jul002278
Aug001783
Sep001882
Oct014455
Nov187219
Dec315794

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 Iriona is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Feb 3 to Jul 14. The windiest month is April, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 15 to Feb 2, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 8 · 17 km/hOct 3 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep12light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Iriona

In seasonPeak

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

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

Iriona's rainy season runs October–January, 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 Iriona

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Iriona 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 Iriona for general outdoor tourist activities is from late January to early May, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 31 · 6.9

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
Jan5.3fair
Feb5.9good
Mar6.5good
Apr6.4good
May5.1fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct4.0fair
Nov4.3fair
Dec4.8fair

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 Iriona for hot-weather activities is from mid February to late May, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 9 · 7.3

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 Iriona, 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.

Iriona packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In September, Iriona sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Iriona

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 18 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

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

26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr28Warm
May28Tropical
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Iriona 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 Iriona peaks around March 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 23UV 13Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Iriona

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 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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54.5
Dec63.5

Air quality in Iriona 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 Iriona is worst in July — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 5.5× the cleanest month (November, 6 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1233 µg/m³Nov 236 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan6Good
Feb8Good
Mar11Good
Apr27Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul34Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov6Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Iriona 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. Iriona banks about 5,891 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan451
Feb414
Mar476
Apr490
May528
Jun514
Jul523
Aug531
Sep521
Oct515
Nov467
Dec463

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.

Iriona receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Feb 24 to Sep 28. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is November, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 39% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 246.5 kWhNov 293.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.5Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.9Moderate
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Iriona?

Iriona sits at 16.0°N, 85.1°W, 6 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is Tocoa, 102 km away.

TocoaDulce Nombre de CulmíSabáSonagueraGualacoCatacamasRoatanOlanchito

Topography around Iriona

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Iriona has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 382 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,847 m.

The land around Iriona is covered by water (46%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, water (58%), trees (20%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (43%) and water (42%) within 80 km.

3 km
34 m
16 km
382 m
80 km
1,847 m
treesgrasslandcroplandbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Tocoa 102 km · Dulce Nombre de Culmí 107 km · Sabá 136 km · Sonaguera 138 km · Gualaco 148 km · Catacamas 151 km · Roatan 159 km · Olanchito 167 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 Iriona (15.9678°, -85.0932°, elevation 6 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).