Climate and average weather in Morocelí

In Morocelí, 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 June.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Morocelí typically varies from 17°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 35°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 Morocelí for warm-weather activities are from early January to early March and early November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
32°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Jun
176 mm
Driest
Feb
5 mm
Rain / yr
987 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
625 m
14.1°N
Clearest
Mar
43% cloud

Morocelí is human settlement in Honduras.

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

Morocelí 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Morocelí 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 27°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2717
Feb2917
Mar3118
Apr3219
May3120
Jun2920
Jul2819
Aug2920
Sep2919
Oct2819
Nov2718
Dec2717

How hot and cold Morocelí 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, Morocelí feels like about 32°C (around April 18). About 28 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan27271717
Feb29291717
Mar30311818
Apr32321919
May31312020
Jun30292020
Jul29281919
Aug30292020
Sep31291919
Oct29281919
Nov27271818
Dec27271717

Average hourly temperature in Morocelí

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

Morocelí 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
Jan27° / 17°82.711.37.8
Feb29° / 17°51.611.57.1
Mar31° / 18°92.111.95.8
Apr32° / 19°315.512.34.4
May31° / 20°17317.612.63.7
Jun29° / 20°17622.212.83.9
Jul28° / 19°9217.512.84.7
Aug29° / 20°11419.712.54.2
Sep29° / 19°15721.212.13.8
Oct28° / 19°16719.911.74.7
Nov27° / 18°438.111.36.6
Dec27° / 17°113.311.27.6

Chance of rain

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

Morocelí gets about 987 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 5 to Nov 3, peaking in June at about 76% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 28.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 176 mm over about 22 wet days; February is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 7 · 76%Jan 28 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan83
Feb62
Mar72
Apr196
May5618
Jun7322
Jul5718
Aug6320
Sep7121
Oct6320
Nov278
Dec123

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Morocelí collects about 987 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 82 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 176 mm, while February is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec85931173176921141571674311
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan83
Feb52
Mar92
Apr316
May17318
Jun17622
Jul9218
Aug11420
Sep15721
Oct16720
Nov438
Dec113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Morocelí, 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 10 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 29. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 30 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around November 9. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 18 · 74%May 31 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb7327
Mar7228
Apr5941
May2674
Jun1882
Jul3070
Aug3367
Sep2377
Oct2476
Nov4654
Dec6238

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 29, 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)
Jan11.36:195:34
Feb11.56:165:48
Mar11.96:005:54
Apr12.35:385:57
May12.65:246:03
Jun12.85:236:13
Jul12.85:306:16
Aug12.55:376:06
Sep12.15:395:44
Oct11.75:425:23
Nov11.35:535:13
Dec11.26:095:19

Sunny days

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

Morocelí 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 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Nov 28 to Apr 29. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is October, down near 2 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightMar 514 daysOct 21 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May3Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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 Morocelí, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around May 5 to November 30. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 1 to May 4, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 76% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 17 · 77%Sep 22 · 0%humidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan13503610
Feb16572700
Mar22542220
Apr144233100
May41331502
Jun0118791
Jul0138610
Aug0136630
Sep0020790
Oct0223740
Nov21852290
Dec5365260

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 Morocelí 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 9 to Apr 15. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 8 to Nov 8, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 9 · 11 km/hSep 23 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Morocelí

In seasonPeak

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

Morocelí'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 Morocelí

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 23 · 7.9

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
Jan7.7ideal
Feb7.1good
Mar5.8good
Apr4.4fair
May3.7fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.2fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct4.7fair
Nov6.6good
Dec7.6ideal

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 Morocelí for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late April, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 20 · 8.6

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 Morocelí, 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.

Morocelí 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, Morocelí 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 Morocelí 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 Morocelí peaks around March 22 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 highMar 22UV 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 Morocelí

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
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Morocelí 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 Morocelí is worst in April — around 65 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.9× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodApr 1761 µg/m³Dec 188 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar23Moderate
Apr65Unhealthy
May36Poor
Jun19Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Morocelí 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. Morocelí banks about 4,993 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)
Jan367
Feb358
Mar439
Apr472
May478
Jun426
Jul430
Aug444
Sep429
Oct414
Nov370
Dec368

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.

Morocelí receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around Feb 15 to May 31. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 116.5 kWhDec 44.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Morocelí?

Morocelí sits at 14.1°N, 86.9°W, 625 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is Teupasenti, 21 km away.

El ParaísoSabanagrandeOcotalSomoto

Topography around Morocelí

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Morocelí has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 188 m around an average of 625 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,362 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,268 m.

The land around Morocelí is covered by grassland (34%), trees (32%) and cropland (28%) within 3 km, trees (63%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) and grassland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
188 m
16 km
1,362 m
80 km
2,268 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Teupasenti 21 km · San Juan de Flores 25 km · Danlí 32 km · Tegucigalpa 37 km · El Paraíso 44 km · Sabanagrande 55 km · Ocotal 69 km · Somoto 77 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 Morocelí (14.1167°, -86.8667°, elevation 625 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).