Granada department

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Population: 135,138INIDE 2023
Elevation: 62 m
Mean temperature: 28 °CNovember: 27 °C
Rainy season: May to November
To Managua: 57 min47 km
To MGA airport: 56 min

Granada, Nicaragua — Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Homes in Granada

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Climate

In Granada the rainy season runs from May to November, with a drier spell in July (the canícula). The wettest month is October (≈312 mm) and the driest is January. The mean annual temperature is about 28 °C: April is the warmest month (31 °C on average) and November the coolest (27 °C).

The town sits at about 62 m above sea level.

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	1	27.5	66
February	2	28.5	60
March	5	29.7	55
April	27	30.7	56
May	202	29.4	70
June	207	27.7	82
July	115	27.7	80
August	172	28	79
September	289	27.5	82
October	312	26.9	84
November	112	26.5	81
December	8	26.8	75

Getting there and around

Granada is 47 km from Managua by road, about 57 min by car at the 50 km/h limit police have enforced since 2025, and 56 min from Managua International Airport (MGA).

Granada is on the Pacific side.

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Near Granada

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).