Managua
Managua
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About
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the largest cities in Central America. Located on the shores of Lake Managua, the city had an estimated population of 1,055,247 as of 2020, and a population of 1,401,687 in its metropolitan area. The city also serves as the seat of Managua Department.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Managua, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Managua
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
37° / 26°
UV Very high
Sat
Showers
36° / 27°
5.3 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Drizzle
34° / 26°
1.9 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Drizzle
35° / 27°
1.2 mm
UV High
Tue
Drizzle
35° / 27°
2.1 mm
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
35° / 26°
1.5 mm
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
37° / 23°
Typical high / low
7 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.7h
05:20 – 18:01local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Managua
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Augusto C. Sandino (Managua) International Airport (MGA) at 12 km.
Getting around Managua
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 3.0, Vrysxy.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.