According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Panama is December to April. Plan 7–14 days.
Best months for Panama
- Best months
- December to April
- How long to stay
- 7–14 days
- Continent
- North & Central America
What Panama is best for
Explore the Panama Canal, Casco Viejo, cloud forests in Boquete, and Caribbean islands in Bocas del Toro.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Panama by month
Monthly averages around Panama City; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about 27 °C | little rain (18 mm) |
| February best | about 27 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| March best | about 28 °C | little rain (18 mm) |
| April best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
| May | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (237 mm) |
| June | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (252 mm) |
| July | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (198 mm) |
| August | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (213 mm) |
| September | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (246 mm) |
| October | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (252 mm) |
| November | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (246 mm) |
| December best | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (105 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Panama
- Capital
- Panama City
- Language
- Spanish
- Currencies
- Panamanian Balboa (PAB) and US Dollar (USD)
- Time
- UTC−5
- Plugs
- Type A, B · 110 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +507
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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