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San Pedro Sula, 
Honduras
1,299,457 people lived in San Pedro Sula in 2025. It is the 397th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Honduras.
Like every city on this site, San Pedro Sula is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How San Pedro Sula grew
Count 10 people in San Pedro Sula in 1975 and the same count gives 70.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
San Pedro Sula through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in San Pedro Sula in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Honduras · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Honduras and its 16 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Tegucigalpa). San Pedro Sula is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, San Pedro Sula covered 214 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 44 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 7.1 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Honduras
Its share of Honduras
Of every 100 people in Honduras in 2025, 12 lived in San Pedro Sula, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: shrink Honduras to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in San Pedro Sula; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 393 Tabriz Iran1,309,004
- 394 Kharkiv Ukraine1,308,892
- 395 Amritsar India1,303,330
- 396 Klipgat South Africa1,300,816
- 397 San Pedro Sula1,299,457
- 398 Tembisa South Africa1,298,512
- 399 Ilorin Nigeria1,282,219
- 400 Lubango Angola1,280,986
- 401 Saharanpur India1,275,279
In Honduras, 2025
- 306 Tegucigalpa1,607,033
- 397 San Pedro Sula1,299,457
- 2040 La Ceiba285,756
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for San Pedro Sula are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one San Pedro Sula publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries