April Weather at Soto Cano Air Base Honduras

Daily high temperatures are around 93°F, rarely falling below 87°F or exceeding 97°F. The highest daily average high temperature is 93°F on April 12.

Daily low temperatures increase by 2°F, from 67°F to 69°F, rarely falling below 63°F or exceeding 72°F.

For reference, on April 11, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Soto Cano Air Base typically range from 68°F to 93°F, while on January 21, the coldest day of the year, they range from 63°F to 85°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on April. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Campo Grande, Brazil (3,290 miles away); Goiânia, Brazil (3,388 miles); and Mafinga, Tanzania (8,535 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Soto Cano Air Base (view comparison).

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The month of April at Soto Cano Air Base experiences very rapidly increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 41% to 73%.

The clearest day of the month is April 1, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 59% of the time.

For reference, on June 4, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 92%, while on January 17, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 77%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Soto Cano Air Base, the chance of a wet day over the course of April is very rapidly increasing, starting the month at 6% and ending it at 16%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 52% on September 17, and its lowest chance is 2% on January 26.

Rainfall

To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during April at Soto Cano Air Base is rapidly increasing, starting the month at 0.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.3 inches, and ending the month at 1.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.2 inches or falls below 0.2 inches.

Over the course of April at Soto Cano Air Base, the length of the day is gradually increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 22 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 45 seconds, and weekly increase of 5 minutes, 17 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is April 1, with 12 hours, 17 minutes of daylight and the longest day is April 30, with 12 hours, 39 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the month at Soto Cano Air Base is 5:45 AM on April 1 and the earliest sunrise is 17 minutes earlier at 5:28 AM on April 30.

The earliest sunset is 6:02 PM on April 1 and the latest sunset is 4 minutes later at 6:07 PM on April 30.

Daylight saving time is not observed at Soto Cano Air Base during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:22 AM and sets 12 hours, 59 minutes later, at 6:21 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:10 AM and sets 11 hours, 17 minutes later, at 5:27 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for April 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Soto Cano Air Base is very rapidly increasing during April, rising from 21% to 51% over the course of the month.

For reference, on September 19, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 95% of the time, while on February 2, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 6% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Soto Cano Air Base is gradually decreasing during April, decreasing from 6.3 miles per hour to 5.5 miles per hour over the course of the month.

For reference, on January 13, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 7.7 miles per hour, while on September 14, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 4.3 miles per hour.

The wind direction at Soto Cano Air Base during April is predominantly out of the north from April 1 to April 26 and the east from April 26 to April 30.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

Temperatures at Soto Cano Air Base are sufficiently warm year round that it is not entirely meaningful to discuss the growing season in these terms. We nevertheless include the chart below as an illustration of the distribution of temperatures experienced throughout the year.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Soto Cano Air Base are rapidly increasing during April, increasing by 806°F, from 2,169°F to 2,975°F, over the course of the month.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Soto Cano Air Base is gradually decreasing during April, falling by 0.7 kWh, from 7.0 kWh to 6.3 kWh, over the course of the month.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Soto Cano Air Base are 14.382 deg latitude, -87.621 deg longitude, and 2,067 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Soto Cano Air Base contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 482 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,053 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (5,958 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (8,711 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Soto Cano Air Base is covered by grassland (60%), cropland (26%), and trees (11%), within 10 miles by grassland (37%) and trees (33%), and within 50 miles by trees (49%) and grassland (24%).