San Salvador
San Salvador
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📷 Frankjh· CC BY-SA 3.0"San Salvador en Grande | San Salvador in Greatness"
About
San Salvador is the capital and largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants (2024). The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital itself and 13 of its municipalities, has a population of 2,404,097. The urban area of San Salvador has a population of 1,600,000 inhabitants.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article San Salvador, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in San Salvador
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
Partly cloudy
34° / 23°
UV Very high
Sat
Drizzle
33° / 24°
2.0 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Showers
32° / 23°
3.7 mm
UV Very high
Mon
Thunderstorm
33° / 23°
1.1 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Thunderstorm
32° / 23°
6.9 mm
UV Very high
Wed
Thunderstorm
31° / 22°
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
35° / 23°
Typical high / low
6 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.8h
05:30 – 18:15local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near San Salvador
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Ilopango International Airport (ILS) at 8 km.
Getting around San Salvador
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
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
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- 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 4.0, Alcaldía de San Salvador (SVG version by Jarould).
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.