How extreme does Masaya's weather get?

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

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Managua Intl / Augusto Cesar Sandino Intl station 20 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 Masaya has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

102°F Jul 12, 1998

That is about 12°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Masaya (typical high near 90°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 102°F Jul 12, 1998

2 101°F Apr 3, 2001

3 100°F Apr 7, 1998

❄️ Coldest night

54°F Jan 20, 1997

About 17°F colder than a normal January night in Masaya (typical low near 71°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 54°F Jan 20, 1997

2 54°F Mar 9, 1994

3 55°F Jun 12, 1996

🌧️ Most rain in one day

7.95 in Feb 8, 2004

More rain in a single day than Masaya usually gets in the whole month of February (typical February total about 0.4 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 7.95 in Feb 8, 2004

2 5.51 in Nov 22, 1993

3 5.08 in Oct 27, 1993

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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Masaya's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 102°F is about 12°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, Masaya's warmest days reach the mid-90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 70s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 102°F and as low as 54°F. A single day has delivered over 8 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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 1 years of daily observations at Liberia, a weather station, about 165 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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