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San Salvador Department · 525,990 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 11:16

Clear sky
21°
Clear sky
Feels like 27°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
4 km/h
Humidity
81 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
6 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:50 Set 17:30 Day 11 h 40 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
25°21°
Feels like 31°
Wind ↑ N 6 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
30°29°
Feels like 37°
Wind ↑ NE 3 km/h
Humidity 55 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
26°20°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 1.3 mm
12:00
Clear sky
30°
NE 3
15:00
Mainly clear
29°
0.1mm
ESE 1

San Salvador forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
16°20°25°29°33°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed29°19°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 18° · normal 23.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 19° · normal 23.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 31° · min 20° · normal 23.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 31° · min 18° · normal 23.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 31° · min 18° · normal 23.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 30° · min 19° · normal 23.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 29° · min 19° · normal 23.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu17°25°33°31°18°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

San Salvador climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in October to 32 °C in March, and the coolest nights (January) average 20 °C.

From December to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

A normal year brings roughly 1,640 mm of rain — more than 80% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan31 °C20 °C4 mm
Feb32 °C21 °C4 mm
Mar32 °C21 °C14 mm
Apr32 °C23 °C56 mm
May31 °C23 °C238 mm
Jun30 °C22 °C261 mm
Jul31 °C22 °C191 mm
Aug30 °C23 °C240 mm
Sep29 °C22 °C315 mm
Oct29 °C22 °C253 mm
Nov30 °C21 °C54 mm
Dec31 °C20 °C9 mm
Whole year31 °C22 °C1,640 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.69° N, 89.19° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in San Salvador: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.533µg/m³
PM1038µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around San Salvador

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around San Salvador, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers San Salvador yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over San Salvador

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 20:41 Set 09:18
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/El_Salvador); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in San Salvador

Curious about the weather in San Salvador on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

San Salvador weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in San Salvador, San Salvador Department: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 21 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations