It is 71.6°F at Ilopango Arpt, 05:50 local on Friday. San Salvador is the 50th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 129th hottest of the 216 capitals reporting right now.
Ilopango Arpt · MSSS13.7°N 89.1°W · 611 m13 readings in 24 h · METARRecords since 1957📍 Open in Google Maps
Latest reading
71.6°F
22.0°C · 05:50 local
13 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Today so far
78.8°F / 71.6°F
26.0°C / 22.0°C
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 85.6°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
All-time record high
101.1°F
38.4°C · recorded in °C
6 April 2005. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1957 to 2025
All-time record low
52.0°F
11.1°C · recorded in °C
19 November 1994. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
1San Salvador is the 50th warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2April is the hottest month here, averaging 91.6°F, which is before midsummer rather than in it. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 101.1°F, on 6 April 2005, and it has stood for 20 years. Source: GHCN-Daily
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1957 at Ilopango Arpt, and the archive holds 19,380 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 13 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 611 m above sea level, the 4th highest of 9 stations we hold in El Salvador.
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 San Salvador by annual mean.
April is the warmest month at Ilopango Arpt, averaging a daily high of 91.6°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 San Salvador?+−
October is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 84.9°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 38.7°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
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.
6.8°F between April and October, the 166th 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 11 Aprils, 1958 to 2009, this station's April average has risen about 0.5° 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: 90.0°F, in 1994. Today reached 78.8°F, 11.2°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 86th of 9,308 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 1 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 84.9°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 6.8°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 166th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 18.0°F, on 11 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 El Salvador its best placing is 1st of 9 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in San Salvador right now?+−
71.6°F at Ilopango Arpt, measured at 05:50 local on Friday, 13 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 San Salvador?+−
The archive held here for San Salvador, El Salvador starts in 1957, which is 68 years of record, and 19,380 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
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.
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 San Salvador's record?+−
The record runs from 1957 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 4 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 11. 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 San Salvador getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 11 Aprils between 1958 and 2009, the average April high at Ilopango Arpt has risen about 0.5°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 San Salvador compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 50th 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 166th by the width of its annual swing. Ngerulmud, Colombo, Palikir sit closest to it on that ranking.
Why is San Salvador hotter in April than in July?+−
April averages a high of 91.6°F here and July 87.6°F, so the hottest part of the year arrives 3 months before midsummer and the afternoons are 4.0°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.