León department

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Population: 214,920INIDE 2023
Elevation: 102 m
Mean temperature: 28 °CNovember: 27 °C
Rainy season: May to October
To Managua: 1 h 55 min95 km
To MGA airport: 2 h 5 min

León, Nicaragua — Photo: SqueakBox, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

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Climate

In León the rainy season runs from May to October, with a drier spell in July (the canícula). The wettest month is September (≈299 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 102 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	2	28.3	57
February	2	29.2	54
March	8	30.2	51
April	35	30.9	54
May	216	29.3	69
June	229	27.7	80
July	114	28.1	75
August	173	28.5	74
September	299	27.5	80
October	294	26.8	83
November	68	26.7	77
December	10	27.3	68

Getting there and around

León is 95 km from Managua by road, about 1 h 55 min by car at the 50 km/h limit police have enforced since 2025, and 2 h 5 min from Managua International Airport (MGA).

León is on the Pacific side.

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Near León

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).