El Tunco weather by month
The best time to visit El Tunco is December to February — 95/100 in January, 32°C and 1 rainy day. The best season is the dry season, November to April (91/100 on average).
The worst month is June at 61/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See June →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit El Salvador →
Best season: November to April (91/100 on average) · worst June (61/100)
- Days
- 32°C
- Nights
- 23°C
- Wet days
- 1
- Sun
- 10.4 h
- Humidity
- 64%
- Daylight
- 11 h
El Tunco, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip El Tunco is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in El Tunco through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in El Tunco in January
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyschool holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on El Tunco
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
El Tunco-focused surf guides call December and January the pick of the year: the region's soggier months have just ended, so it's dry-season sunshine and low crowds by Central American standards, with swell still consistent enough to keep the reef breaks at El Sunzal working most days. Waves run a touch smaller than the peak swell months, but clean rather than blown-out, and the water stays warm enough that a rash guard covers it for most visitors. The trade-off for the good weather is a busier stretch right around Christmas and New Year, when domestic tourists from San Salvador fill the town's hostels and beachfront bars. Outside that holiday spike, regulars describe December as close to the year's most reliable combination of sun, manageable waves, and thin crowds. The record: 30.9C days feeling like a sticky 35C, 23.1C nights, just 9.2mm across 2.2 days, a 29C sea, 68 percent humidity and 10.3 hours of sun.
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