Climate El Arrayán Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Goloson International Airport (MHLC) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	84.3	91	95	90	84	81
February	92.4	94	97	90	90	82
March	94.7	95	98	94	94	95
April	75.4		60	94	96	17
May	82.8		66	97	93	78
June	93.1		93	98	97	84
July	96.1		98	97	99	99
August	94.4		97	97	98	89
September	95.6		98	96	97	92
October	89.7		87	90	96	94
November	83.4		84	92	82	83
December	85.2		83	98	97	85
Average	89.3	93.2	87.8	94.3	93.5	84.0

2nd best VFR conditions of Honduras

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	89.7	94	97	91	88	88
February	95.4	96	99	93	94	88
March	96.7	97	99	96	96	97
April	88.8		77	98	97	53
May	94.6		87	99	99	96
June	96.9		98	99	99	86
July	98.5		98	98	99	99
August	97.1		98	97	99	93
September	96.9		98	97	97	94
October	93.3		90	93	96	98
November	89.6		87	97	87	85
December	91.3		90	99	98	90
Average	94.1	95.5	93.0	96.2	95.7	90.0

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	27.6	29	28	27	28	28
February	28.5	28	29	27	29	29
March	29.5	31	30	29	29	29
April	30.8		31	30	31	33
May	31.5		32	31	32	32
June	31.7		33	31	32	32
July	31.4		32	31	32	32
August	31.6		32	31	32	31
September	31.5		32	30	32	31
October	30.3		30	30	31	30
November	28.6		29	29	27	29
December	27.6		28	29	28	27
Average	29.9	29.1	30.2	29.6	30.0	30.0

7th highest temperature of Honduras

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	18.9	20	17	19	20	20
February	18.8	19	19	20	18	18
March	19.4	22	20	20	20	18
April	21.2		20	21	19	29
May	22.2		22	18	22	28
June	23.0		23	22	21	26
July	23.0		24	21	22	28
August	22.8		23	21	22	27
September	21.3		23	22	20	20
October	22.0		23	20	22	24
November	20.6		23	20	17	21
December	19.7		21	21	19	19
Average	21.0	20.3	21.4	20.3	20.0	23.1

8th lowest temperature of Honduras

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	13.5	10	3	9	15	13
February	6.7	8	3	11	7	11
March	3.8	5	2	5	5	3
April	2.0		2	1	4	0
May	1.6		0	3	1	1
June	2.0		2	2	2	2
July	1.2		3	1	0	0
August	2.0		2	4	1	1
September	2.2		2	5	1	2
October	8.4		14	9	3	4
November	14.2		20	11	21	11
December	11.5		18	5	4	12
Average	5.9	7.3	5.9	5.2	5.1	5.7

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	4.6	4	5	5	5	5
February	5.7	6	7	6	6	6
March	5.8	6	6	6	6	6
April	5.7		6	6	6	7
May	5.5		6	6	7	6
June	5.8		6	5	7	6
July	6.8		7	7	8	7
August	5.7		6	5	6	6
September	4.8		5	4	6	5
October	4.1		4	4	4	5
November	4.4		4	4	4	5
December	4.5		4	5	4	5
Average	5.3	5.4	5.5	5.2	5.8	5.7

7th highest wind speed of Honduras

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	013°	034°	009°	023°	020°
February	024°	046°	021°	024°	031°
March	023°	028°	020°	030°	021°
April		024°	027°	031°	012°
May		020°	028°	044°	016°
June		030°	037°	034°	029°
July		045°	043°	044°	032°
August		030°	036°	028°	020°
September		018°	357°	026°	358°
October		340°	350°	006°	315°
November		015°	358°	274°	358°
December		327°	037°	026°	305°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.