Climate Fort Sherman Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Panama Pacifico (MPPA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	98.6	100	96	100	99	98
February	99.3	100	100	100	100	100
March	99.4	100	100	99	99	100
April	96.4		99	95	95	97
May	95.3		96	95	95	95
June	94.2		98	92	96	89
July	95.5		98	95	94	93
August	95.3		93	96	95	95
September	94.8		96	99	92	93
October	94.8		94	92	97	94
November	92.5		91	94	93	88
December	96.3		96	97	97	98
Average	96.5	99.8	96.3	96.1	96.0	94.9

3rd best VFR conditions of Panama

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	99.1	100	98	100	100	98
February	99.4	100	100	100	100	100
March	99.6	100	100	99	100	100
April	98.5		99	98	98	99
May	97.6		100	98	96	98
June	98.0		99	99	98	97
July	98.0		99	98	98	98
August	98.1		97	99	97	99
September	98.1		99	99	97	97
October	98.1		98	97	98	98
November	97.0		97	98	97	94
December	98.5		99	100	99	99
Average	98.5	100.0	98.8	98.7	98.2	98.0

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	31.7	33	31	32	31	32
February	32.8	33	32	33	33	33
March	33.3	34	32	32	33	34
April	32.0		33	32	32	32
May	30.5		33	31	31	31
June	27.6		31	30	30	30
July	31.1		31	31	31	31
August	30.7		31	30	30	31
September	30.4		32	30	30	30
October	27.6		31	29	30	30
November	24.8		30	29	30	29
December	27.8		32	31	31	31
Average	30.4	33.0	31.5	30.7	30.9	31.1

1st highest temperature of Panama

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	23.2	23	23	23	24	24
February	22.3	25	24	23	24	24
March	22.6	25	23	24	24	24
April	21.7		24	24	25	25
May	24.0		25	25	25	24
June	21.2		25	24	21	25
July	23.6		25	25	23	24
August	21.4		25	24	24	25
September	22.4		25	23	24	24
October	21.0		24	24	23	25
November	18.7		25	24	24	24
December	20.9		25	23	24	24
Average	22.2	24.4	24.5	23.7	23.6	24.3

4th lowest temperature of Panama

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	1.9	2	4	1	2	0
February	0.3	0	0	2	0	0
March	1.3	0	2	5	2	0
April	3.3		3	6	4	4
May	5.5		5	9	5	9
June	5.8		5	9	7	8
July	6.8		6	6	12	9
August	6.6		6	7	8	8
September	5.6		2	9	6	6
October	6.4		6	10	5	7
November	9.6		10	13	9	13
December	5.3		8	9	6	5
Average	4.4	0.7	4.6	7.1	5.4	5.6

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	8.4	8	6	9	7	10
February	10.0	9	10	10	9	11
March	9.4	8	7	7	8	11
April	6.6		7	5	6	7
May	4.6		5	4	5	4
June	3.6		4	4	4	3
July	4.3		4	4	4	4
August	3.9		4	3	4	4
September	3.8		4	4	4	3
October	4.1		3	4	3	4
November	4.2		3	4	4	6
December	5.7		6	3	5	6
Average	6.1	8.2	5.2	5.1	5.2	6.1

1st highest wind speed of Panama

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	354°	355°	009°	009°	011°
February	355°	358°	010°	009°	012°
March	348°	350°	001°	009°	012°
April		347°	355°	359°	003°
May		341°	279°	353°	341°
June		315°	201°	345°	236°
July		342°	325°	350°	344°
August		329°	263°	220°	285°
September		326°	193°	263°	208°
October		196°	199°	210°	203°
November		296°	214°	346°	202°
December		350°	355°	002°	004°

Prevailing wind direction

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