Panama City
Elevation 20 m8.97° N, 79.54° W
When to go?
Mean 27 °C, 7 rain days in the month (35 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 27 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
Mean 27 °C, 3 rain days in the month (20 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 26 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 28 °C, 4 rain days in the month (20 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 25 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 28 °C, 13 rain days in the month (98 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 27 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 27 °C, 26 rain days in the month (242 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 29 rain days in the month (276 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
Mean 27 °C, 30 rain days in the month (303 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
- Torrential rain10 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 30 rain days in the month (283 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
Mean 27 °C, 29 rain days in the month (267 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain almost every day
Mean 26 °C, 29 rain days in the month (283 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
Mean 26 °C, 27 rain days in the month (314 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain12 mm per rain day
Mean 26 °C, 19 rain days in the month (146 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
No ideal month: the best months are February–March, the least hot. Ideal for the sea: December–April. Avoid November–December (hot and often rainy, at times torrential rain), July–October (hot and often rainy, at times torrential rain), April–June (hot, at times often rainy), January (hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Sea temperature: Gulf of Panama
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Panama (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Panama (°C)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.5 °C; in the last ten years by +0.7 °C. Warmest year: 2023 (+1.2 °C), coldest: 1950 (−0.9 °C).
October and January warmed the most (+0.6 and +0.5 °C), November the least (+0.4 °C).
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
The sea, then and now
+0.4 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990