Tocumen climate by month
What the weather is like
Tocumen has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 30° and nights 24°. October is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 1°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,927 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (311 mm, 30 wet days) and February the driest (16 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 20% in January to 77% in July.
The sea reaches about 29° in June. 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, Tocumen is 0.4° warmer on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · April
- Coldest nights
- 24° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 20% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · June
- Longest day
- 12 h 39 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 36 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 | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° |
| Average low | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 34 mm | 16 mm | 20 mm | 98 mm | 354 mm | 349 mm | 311 mm | 334 mm | 368 mm | 454 mm | 392 mm | 197 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 | 20% | 22% | 26% | 41% | 67% | 75% | 77% | 76% | 71% | 67% | 55% | 35% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 25° | 25° | 27° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 39 | 11h 50 | 12h 04 | 12h 20 | 12h 32 | 12h 39 | 12h 36 | 12h 25 | 12h 11 | 11h 56 | 11h 43 | 11h 36 |
| Month score | 69 | 76 | 64 | 40 | 34 | 32 | 31 | 32 | 35 | 38 | 43 | 50 |