Olanchito Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Olanchito, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 26°C on December 1 to 25°C on December 31, and lows from 19°C to 18°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 138 mm over about 18 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, and the record, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Record high
Record low

December at a glance

Average high: 26°C
Average low: 19°C
Precipitation: 138 mm
Record high: 34°CDec 8, 1983
Record low: 13°CDec 29, 1991
Daylight: 11 h 17 min to 11 h 13 min
Cloud cover: 59%
Humidity: 88%
Dew point: 19°C
Wind: 5.8 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Record high	Record low	Chance wet
Dec 1	26°C	19°C	31°C 1997	17°C 2011	56%
Dec 2	26°C	19°C	32°C 2023	17°C 2011	57%
Dec 3	26°C	19°C	32°C 2018	18°C 2013	58%
Dec 4	26°C	19°C	31°C 1996	15°C 1999	59%
Dec 5	26°C	19°C	31°C 1983	15°C 1999	58%
Dec 6	26°C	19°C	31°C 2016	16°C 1984	56%
Dec 7	26°C	19°C	34°C 1982	17°C 1981	58%
Dec 8	26°C	19°C	34°C 1983	14°C 2003	58%
Dec 9	26°C	19°C	32°C 2016	17°C 1975	57%
Dec 10	26°C	19°C	31°C 1998	17°C 1975	57%
Dec 11	26°C	19°C	32°C 1997	17°C 1989	57%
Dec 12	26°C	19°C	31°C 2015	16°C 1993	57%
Dec 13	26°C	19°C	31°C 1997	16°C 1993	59%
Dec 14	26°C	19°C	31°C 2009	16°C 1993	60%
Dec 15	26°C	19°C	31°C 1992	16°C 1993	60%
Dec 16	26°C	19°C	31°C 1992	17°C 1993	61%
Dec 17	26°C	19°C	32°C 2015	17°C 1996	60%
Dec 18	25°C	19°C	31°C 2015	16°C 1996	60%
Dec 19	25°C	19°C	31°C 1995	16°C 1996	58%
Dec 20	25°C	19°C	31°C 2001	15°C 1993	58%
Dec 21	25°C	18°C	31°C 1990	15°C 1993	58%
Dec 22	25°C	18°C	30°C 1990	16°C 1982	58%
Dec 23	25°C	18°C	31°C 2015	16°C 1984	57%
Dec 24	25°C	18°C	31°C 1990	15°C 2012	56%
Dec 25	25°C	18°C	31°C 2002	15°C 2012	56%
Dec 26	25°C	18°C	31°C 1997	15°C 1989	56%
Dec 27	25°C	18°C	32°C 2015	17°C 1981	55%
Dec 28	25°C	18°C	31°C 2015	15°C 1978	55%
Dec 29	25°C	18°C	31°C 2015	13°C 1991	55%
Dec 30	25°C	18°C	31°C 2018	15°C 1999	54%
Dec 31	25°C	18°C	31°C 2015	14°C 1994	53%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (CST).

December 1: sunrise 5:57 AM, sunset 5:14 PM
December 31: sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 5:26 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station HOM00078705, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-26. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.