Climate and average weather in Lepaera

In Lepaera, the summers are hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: mid December to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lepaera typically varies from 15°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 33°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Lepaera for warm-weather activities is from mid December to mid April.

Hottest
Apr
29°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Sep
268 mm
Driest
Mar
40 mm
Rain / yr
1630 mm
212 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
959 m
14.8°N
Clearest
Mar
44% cloud

Lepaera is human settlement in Honduras.

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

Lepaera 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 mid December to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lepaera stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 29°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 9°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)
Jan2315
Feb2415
Mar2716
Apr2917
May2918
Jun2819
Jul2718
Aug2718
Sep2718
Oct2618
Nov2416
Dec2315

Average hourly temperature in Lepaera

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Lepaera 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
Jan23° / 15°7714.111.26.2
Feb24° / 15°479.211.57.1
Mar27° / 16°407.711.97.2
Apr29° / 17°478.412.35.8
May29° / 18°15518.512.74.3
Jun28° / 19°2452412.94.0
Jul27° / 18°15121.612.84.7
Aug27° / 18°18623.512.54.3
Sep27° / 18°26826.712.13.8
Oct26° / 18°20924.111.74.4
Nov24° / 16°12318.511.35.3
Dec23° / 15°8115.711.15.9

Chance of rain

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

Lepaera gets about 1630 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 6.5 months, from around May 15 to Nov 27, peaking in September at about 89% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 27.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 268 mm over about 27 wet days; March is the driest, with 40 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 22 · 89%Mar 27 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4514
Feb339
Mar258
Apr298
May6019
Jun7924
Jul7022
Aug7724
Sep8727
Oct7924
Nov6219
Dec5116

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lepaera collects about 1630 mm of rain across 212 wet days — roughly 136 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 268 mm, while March is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec7747404715524515118626820912381
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan7714
Feb479
Mar408
Apr478
May15519
Jun24524
Jul15122
Aug18624
Sep26827
Oct20924
Nov12319
Dec8116

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lepaera, 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 8 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around May 7. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 8 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around December 7. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 27 · 72%Sep 28 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb6238
Mar6931
Apr6139
May2773
Jun1585
Jul2377
Aug2575
Sep1585
Oct1882
Nov2971
Dec3961

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 10, 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)
Jan11.26:275:40
Feb11.56:245:54
Mar11.96:076:01
Apr12.35:456:05
May12.75:306:11
Jun12.95:296:21
Jul12.85:366:24
Aug12.55:446:13
Sep12.15:465:51
Oct11.75:505:29
Nov11.36:015:19
Dec11.16:175:24

Sunny days

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

Lepaera averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Dec 11 to May 7. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightMar 2615 daysSep 251 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May4Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
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.

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around April 26 to November 9. 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 November 10 to April 25, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 31% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 17 · 34%Jun 8 · 0%humidmuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan4276630
Feb3276820
Mar5275990
Apr11656260
May0432631
Jun009910
Jul0018820
Aug0012880
Sep006940
Oct0322750
Nov11350360
Dec31965130

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 9 · 5 km/hSep 17 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Lepaera

In seasonPeak

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

Lepaera's rainy season runs May–November, 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 Lepaera

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Lepaera 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 Lepaera for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 25 · 7.3

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
Jan6.2good
Feb7.0good
Mar7.2good
Apr5.9good
May4.4fair
Jun4.0fair
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.3fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct4.4fair
Nov5.3fair
Dec5.9good

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 Lepaera for hot-weather activities is from mid February to early May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 2 · 7.6

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 Lepaera, 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 April (highs near 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 23°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Lepaera sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lepaera 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 Lepaera peaks around April 9 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 highApr 9UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Lepaera

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
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54.5

Air quality in Lepaera 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 Lepaera is worst in April — around 41 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.7× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorModerateGoodApr 2341 µg/m³Dec 199 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar16Moderate
Apr41Poor
May40Poor
Jun21Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lepaera 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. Lepaera banks about 4,199 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan272
Feb270
Mar342
Apr391
May422
Jun393
Jul390
Aug393
Sep382
Oct364
Nov300
Dec282

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.

Lepaera receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Feb 15 to Sep 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is November, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 126.0 kWhNov 303.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.7Moderate
Dec3.8Moderate

Where is Lepaera?

Lepaera sits at 14.8°N, 88.6°W, 959 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is Santa Rosa de Copán, 20 km away.

CorquínBelén Gualcho

Topography around Lepaera

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lepaera has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 917 m around an average of 1,023 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,869 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,791 m.

The land around Lepaera is covered by trees (66%) and grassland (31%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and grassland (30%) within 16 km, and trees (77%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
917 m
16 km
1,869 m
80 km
2,791 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Santa Rosa de Copán 20 km · Atima 20 km · Gracias 21 km · La Iguala 22 km · Cucuyagua 34 km · San Pedro de Copán 35 km · Corquín 38 km · Belén Gualcho 40 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 Lepaera (14.7788°, -88.5902°, elevation 959 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).