Estelí department

Living in Estelí

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Population: 131,971INIDE 2023
Elevation: 833 m
Mean temperature: 23 °CNovember: 21 °C
Rainy season: May to October
To Managua: 3 h148 km
To MGA airport: 2 h 50 min

Estelí, Nicaragua — Photo: Gütschow, Mikolai-Alexander, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Homes in Estelí

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Climate

In Estelí the rainy season runs from May to October, with a drier spell in July (the canícula). The wettest month is September (≈259 mm) and the driest is January. The mean annual temperature is about 23 °C: April is the warmest month (26 °C on average) and November the coolest (21 °C).

The town sits at about 833 m above sea level, which makes it cooler than the Pacific lowland cities.

Average rain per month (mm). Coloured bars are months with 100 mm or more.

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Month	Rain (mm)	Mean temp (°C)	Humidity (%)
January	4	21.8	70
February	4	23	63
March	10	24.5	57
April	35	25.9	57
May	184	24.7	71
June	211	23	83
July	105	22.9	80
August	144	23.2	79
September	259	22.6	85
October	242	22	87
November	42	21.3	83
December	17	21.3	78

Getting there and around

Estelí is 148 km from Managua by road, about 3 h by car at the 50 km/h limit police have enforced since 2025, and 2 h 50 min from Managua International Airport (MGA).

Estelí is on the central and northern highlands.

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Sources: INIDE 2023 population estimate (via citypopulation.de); NASA POWER monthly climatology 2001–2025; Distances: OSRM on OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); times at the 50 km/h limit; GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).