It is 82.4°F at Panama/Gelabert Intl, 22:00 local on Thursday. Panama City is the 42nd hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 33rd hottest of the 184 capitals reporting right now.
Panama/Gelabert Intl · MPMG9.0°N 79.6°W · 6 m25 readings in 24 h · METARRecords since 1949📍 Open in Google Maps
Latest reading
82.4°F
28.0°C · 22:00 local
25 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Today so far
84.2°F / 82.4°F
29.0°C / 28.0°C
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 86.4°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
All-time record high
97.0°F
36.1°C · recorded in °C
9 May 1951. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1949 to 2025
All-time record low
64.9°F
18.3°C · recorded in °C
10 January 1956. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
1Panama City is the 42nd warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2April is the hottest month here, averaging 91.2°F, which is before midsummer rather than in it. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 97.0°F, on 9 May 1951, and it has stood for 74 years. Source: GHCN-Daily
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1949 at Panama/Gelabert Intl, and the archive holds 10,140 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 25 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 6 m above sea level, the 7th highest of 9 stations we hold in Panama.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Panama City by annual mean.
April is the warmest month at Panama/Gelabert Intl, averaging a daily high of 91.2°F. That is an average of every April day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Panama City?+−
October is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 86.4°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 36.9°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Panama City?+−
97.0°F, on 9 May 1951, in the record held for Panama/Gelabert Intl. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Panama City?+−
64.9°F, on 10 January 1956, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Panama/Gelabert Intl. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
4.9°F between April and October, the 195th widest swing among the 230 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 14 Aprils, 1949 to 2025, this station's April average has fallen about 0.2° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 31 OctoberRecord for the date: 89.1°F, in 1953. Today reached 84.2°F, 4.9°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 76th of 9,387 reporting stations, across the 50 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
5It has reached the world's hottest 100 stations on 7 of those 50 days. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
65 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1October is the coolest month, averaging 86.4°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 4.9°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 195th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 12.6°F, on 9 November 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Panama its best placing is 1st of 8 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Panama City right now?+−
82.4°F at Panama/Gelabert Intl, measured at 22:00 local on Thursday, 12 November 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Panama City?+−
The archive held here for Panama City, Panama starts in 1949, which is 76 years of record, and 10,140 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Panama City's temperature?+−
Panama/Gelabert Intl (MPMG), 6 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from METAR reports from the aerodrome and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Panama City's record?+−
The record runs from 1949 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 12 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 14. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Panama City getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 14 Aprils between 1949 and 2025, the average April high at Panama/Gelabert Intl has fallen about 0.2°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Panama City compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 42nd warmest of the 230 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 195th by the width of its annual swing. Oranjestad, Roseau, Santo Domingo sit closest to it on that ranking.
Why is Panama City hotter in April than in July?+−
April averages a high of 91.2°F here and July 87.8°F, so the hottest part of the year arrives 3 months before midsummer and the afternoons are 3.4°F cooler by the time the sun is highest. The month cards above show the rise and the fall. These are temperature readings, so they show that shape rather than what causes it: nothing on this page measures cloud, rain or wind.
Commentary: The sort of warmth that makes sitting down feel productive.