Colón climate by month
What the weather is like
Colón has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 29° and nights 25°. December is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 25°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 1°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 3,385 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (358 mm, 30 wet days) and February the driest (44 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 21% in January to 76% in July.
The sea reaches about 29° in October. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Panama City, the capital, Colón is 1.3° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · April
- Coldest nights
- 24° · October
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 21% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · October
- Longest day
- 12 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 35 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 102 mm | 44 mm | 56 mm | 151 mm | 350 mm | 314 mm | 358 mm | 369 mm | 319 mm | 396 mm | 604 mm | 322 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.3 | 2.2 | 6.2 | 18.8 | 27.6 | 28.9 | 30.1 | 29.8 | 28.4 | 28.9 | 28.1 | 19.7 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 23% | 25% | 40% | 66% | 74% | 76% | 76% | 70% | 66% | 58% | 37% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 38 | 11h 50 | 12h 04 | 12h 20 | 12h 33 | 12h 40 | 12h 37 | 12h 26 | 12h 11 | 11h 55 | 11h 42 | 11h 35 |
| Month score | 74 | 82 | 71 | 48 | 37 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 39 | 44 | 54 |