San Salvador
It is 69.8°F at Ilopango Arpt, 06:00 local on Monday. San Salvador is the 31st hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 160th hottest capital right now.
06:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 84.4°F.
Wednesday, 6 April 2005
Source: GHCN-Daily
Saturday, 19 November 1994
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 91.8°F, set in 2009. Today reached 69.8°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere San Salvador stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #31
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #160
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- April
- 91.6°F
- Widest annual swing
- #105
- of 139
San Salvador by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan87.4°FHigh 96.8°F · 7 Jan 2014Low 53.4°F · 13 Jan 1987
- Feb89.6°FHigh 98.2°F · 20 Feb 2020Low 53.6°F · 6 Feb 1998
- Mar90.1°FHigh 99.0°F · 11 Mar 2003Low 53.2°F · 1 Mar 1990
- Apr · warmest91.6°FHigh 101.1°F · 6 Apr 2005Low 53.6°F · 24 Apr 1987
- May88.7°FHigh 98.1°F · 17 May 2003Low 53.6°F · 8 May 1985
- Jun87.1°FHigh 94.3°F · 6 Jun 2011Low 59.9°F · 6 Jun 1989
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
5 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than San Salvador by annual mean.
How San Salvador’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in San Salvador?
The archive held here for San Salvador, El Salvador starts in 1957, which is 68 years of record, across 19,380 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures San Salvador's temperature?
Ilopango Arpt (MSSS), 611 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.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in San Salvador?
101.1°F, on 6 April 2005, in the record held for Ilopango Arpt. 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 San Salvador?
52.0°F, on 19 November 1994, 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 Ilopango Arpt. 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.