Climate and average weather in San Antonio de Cortés

In San Antonio de Cortés, the summers are humid, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in San Antonio de Cortés typically varies from 18°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 37°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 San Antonio de Cortés for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and late November to late December.

Hottest
May
33°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
Sep
226 mm
Driest
Apr
46 mm
Rain / yr
1502 mm
209 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
587 m
15.1°N
Clearest
Mar
42% cloud

San Antonio de Cortés is human settlement in Honduras.

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

San Antonio de Cortés 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from March 28 to June 18, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in San Antonio de Cortés is May, with an average high of 33°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 6 to February 11, with daily high temperatures below 27°C. The coldest month of the year in San Antonio de Cortés is January, with an average low of 18°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 9°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)
Jan2518
Feb2718
Mar2919
Apr3221
May3322
Jun3122
Jul3022
Aug3021
Sep3021
Oct2821
Nov2619
Dec2518

How hot and cold San Antonio de Cortés 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, San Antonio de Cortés feels like about 36°C (around May 7). About 196 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25251818
Feb27271818
Mar31291919
Apr34322121
May35332222
Jun35312222
Jul33302122
Aug33302121
Sep34302121
Oct31282121
Nov26261919
Dec25251818

Average hourly temperature in San Antonio de Cortés

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

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

San Antonio de Cortés 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
Jan25° / 18°7413.811.26.3
Feb27° / 18°479.511.56.6
Mar29° / 19°498.511.95.7
Apr32° / 21°468.712.34.0
May33° / 22°14017.512.73.0
Jun31° / 22°20122.512.93.0
Jul30° / 22°14622.212.83.5
Aug30° / 21°16323.912.53.3
Sep30° / 21°22625.312.13.0
Oct28° / 21°20423.711.73.9
Nov26° / 19°12818.711.35.1
Dec25° / 18°7915.211.16.0

Chance of rain

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

San Antonio de Cortés gets about 1502 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 6.4 months, from around May 18 to Nov 28, peaking in September at about 85% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 226 mm over about 25 wet days; April is the driest, with 46 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 21 · 85%Apr 1 · 24%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4314
Feb3510
Mar289
Apr299
May5718
Jun7423
Jul7222
Aug7724
Sep8325
Oct7724
Nov6219
Dec5015

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Antonio de Cortés collects about 1502 mm of rain across 209 wet days — roughly 125 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 226 mm, while April is the driest at just 46 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec7447494614020114616322620412879
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan7414
Feb4710
Mar499
Apr469
May14018
Jun20123
Jul14622
Aug16324
Sep22625
Oct20424
Nov12819
Dec7915

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In San Antonio de Cortés, 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 5.1 months, ending around May 8. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 9 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around December 4. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 31 · 77%Sep 30 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb6733
Mar7327
Apr6733
May3367
Jun1981
Jul2773
Aug2971
Sep2179
Oct2278
Nov3466
Dec4555

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 5, 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)
Jan11.26:265:37
Feb11.56:225:52
Mar11.96:055:59
Apr12.35:426:03
May12.75:276:09
Jun12.95:266:19
Jul12.85:336:22
Aug12.55:416:12
Sep12.15:445:49
Oct11.75:485:27
Nov11.35:595:16
Dec11.16:155:22

Sunny days

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

San Antonio de Cortés 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 15 to May 8. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 2 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightMar 2616 daysSep 261 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr12Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
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.

San Antonio de Cortés 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 May, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 94% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan528660
Feb328681
Mar527635
Apr1186417
May054550
Jun001981
Jul003268
Aug002575
Sep001387
Oct023166
Nov1146124
Dec321696

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 13 · 5 km/hSep 12 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit San Antonio de Cortés

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, San Antonio de Cortés 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 San Antonio de Cortés for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the third week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 18 · 6.6

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
Jan6.3good
Feb6.5good
Mar5.7good
Apr4.1fair
May3.0poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.9fair
Nov5.1fair
Dec6.0good

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 San Antonio de Cortés for hot-weather activities is from late January to late April, with a peak score in the third week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 18 · 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 San Antonio de Cortés, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, San Antonio de Cortés sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in San Antonio de Cortés 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 San Antonio de Cortés peaks around April 9 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 9UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in San Antonio de Cortés

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 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in San Antonio de Cortés 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 San Antonio de Cortés 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

San Antonio de Cortés 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. San Antonio de Cortés banks about 5,330 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)
Jan355
Feb351
Mar442
Apr497
May534
Jun494
Jul487
Aug491
Sep478
Oct454
Nov381
Dec365

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.

San Antonio de Cortés receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around Feb 20 to Sep 26. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is November, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 44% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 196.2 kWhNov 293.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.8Moderate
Feb4.8Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is San Antonio de Cortés?

San Antonio de Cortés sits at 15.1°N, 88.0°W, 587 m above sea level, in Honduras. The nearest listed city is San Francisco de Yojoa, 14 km away.

Topography around San Antonio de Cortés

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of San Antonio de Cortés.

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Antonio de Cortés has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 522 m around an average of 567 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,469 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,713 m.

The land around San Antonio de Cortés is covered by trees (73%) and grassland (25%) within 3 km, trees (71%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (73%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
522 m
16 km
1,469 m
80 km
2,713 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: San Francisco de Yojoa 14 km · Potrerillos 15 km · Santa Rita 19 km · Santa Cruz de Yojoa 22 km · Villanueva 23 km · San José de Colinas 29 km · Santa Bárbara 30 km · Cofradía 34 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 San Antonio de Cortés (15.1161°, -88.0407°, elevation 587 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).