How extreme does Estelí's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Estelí has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 33 years of daily weather observations (1992–present), from the Jinotega station 40 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Estelí has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

98°F May 2, 2003

That is about 16°F hotter than a normal May afternoon in Estelí (typical high near 82°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 98°F May 2, 2003

2 97°F May 14, 2001

3 97°F Apr 23, 1998

❄️ Coldest night

32°F Mar 9, 1993

About 32°F colder than a normal March night in Estelí (typical low near 64°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 32°F Mar 9, 1993

2 32°F Nov 14, 1993

3 39°F Feb 17, 1993

🌧️ Most rain in one day

9.00 in Nov 4, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 9.00 in Nov 4, 2014

2 3.27 in Oct 8, 1996

3 3.04 in Sep 19, 2002

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

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Estelí's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — May's 98°F is about 16°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Estelí's warmest days reach the low 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 60s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 98°F and as low as 32°F. A single day has delivered over 9 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Choluteca, a weather station, about 92 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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