In this paper, we study hyponormal weighed composition operators on the Hardy and weighted Bergman spaces. For functions ψ ∈ A(D) which are not the zero function, we characterize all hyponormal compact weighted composition operators C ψ,ϕ on H 2 and A 2 α . Next, we show that for ϕ ∈ LFT(D), if C ϕ is hyponormal on H 2 or A 2 α , then ϕ(z) = λz, where |λ| ≤ 1 or ϕ is a hyperbolic non-automorphism with ϕ(0) = 0 and such that ϕ has another fixed point in ∂D. After that, we find the essential spectral radius of C ϕ on H 2 and A 2 α , when ϕ has a Denjoy-Wolff point ζ ∈ ∂D. Finally, descriptions of spectral radii are provided for some hyponormal weighted composition operators on H 2 and A 2 α .