Climate averages 1991–2020
Chimaltenango weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Chimaltenango: daytime highs average 24.1°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 48 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is San Juan Sacatepéquez (20 km away). In May its highs average 24.5°C, about as warm as Chimaltenango, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Chimaltenango ranks 17th of 23 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 23 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 23 cities is 26.3°C; Chimaltenango is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 22.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 132 mm to 221 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Chimaltenango climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.5°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 6.3 | 1.8 | 11.411 h |
| February | 24.1°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 5.1 | 1.3 | 11.712 h |
| March | 25.2°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 15 | 3.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 51 | 7.9 | 12.512 h |
| May, selected | 24.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 132 | 17.7 | 12.813 h |
| June | 22.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 221 | 23.9 | 13.013 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 116 | 17.3 | 12.913 h |
| August | 23.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 136 | 19.1 | 12.613 h |
| September | 22.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 204 | 24.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 21.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 152 | 19.0 | 11.812 h |
| November | 21.5°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 41 | 7.1 | 11.511 h |
| December | 22.0°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 13 | 2.8 | 11.311 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- San Juan Sacatepéquez in MayGuatemala · 20 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 132 mm rain
- Villa Nueva in MayGuatemala · 29 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 17.3°C · 227 mm rain
- Santa Catarina Pinula in MayGuatemala · 36 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 227 mm rain
- Villa Canales in MayGuatemala · 37 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.6°C · 227 mm rain
- Escuintla in MayGuatemala · 40 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 20.5°C · 299 mm rain
- Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in MayGuatemala · 42 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 20.5°C · 248 mm rain
- Chichicastenango in MayGuatemala · 44 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 157 mm rain
- San José Pinula in MayGuatemala · 46 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 227 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Chimaltenango) is explained once on the Chimaltenango year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
San Juan Sacatepéquez lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.