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Managua Department · 973,087 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:25

Air: Good Hot · 5 d High storm risk · Sun, Tue, Wed

32°

Clear sky

Feels like 41°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

20 km/h

Humidity

59 %

Pressure

1008 hPa

Clouds

9 %

Storm

Rise 05:37 Set 17:20 Day 11 h 43 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Mainly clear

33°32°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ ESE 15 km/h

Humidity 53 %

Evening

Clear sky

30°26°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ ESE 17 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 61 %

15:00

32°

ESE 15

Managua forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.4° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Managua climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — October, the mildest, still averages 30 °C.

From January to March, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

The wet season is concentrated from August to October, which brings 50% of the annual total; October by itself averages 257 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	22 °C	4 mm
Feb	33 °C	22 °C	3 mm
Mar	34 °C	23 °C	4 mm
Apr	35 °C	24 °C	24 mm
May	34 °C	24 °C	194 mm
Jun	31 °C	24 °C	222 mm
Jul	32 °C	24 °C	126 mm
Aug	32 °C	24 °C	173 mm
Sep	31 °C	23 °C	246 mm
Oct	31 °C	23 °C	257 mm
Nov	31 °C	23 °C	78 mm
Dec	32 °C	23 °C	11 mm
Whole year	32 °C	23 °C	1,340 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.13° N, 86.25° 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 Managua: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM109µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Managua

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Managua

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 20:32 Set 09:02

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/Managua); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Managua

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

Managua weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Managua, Managua 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 32 °C (feels like 41 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 33 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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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