Climate averages 1991–2020

Escuintla weather
in January.

A hot, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 30.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 9.9 mm 3 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Escuintla: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 9.9 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 23 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (26 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, 0.6°C cooler than Escuintla, with 7.7 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Escuintla ranks joint 1st of 23 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 23 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 23 cities is 24.6°C; Escuintla is 5.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 31.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 9.9 mm to 9.1 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Escuintla climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Escuintla, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	30.0°C18.5°C	18.5°C	9.9	3.1	11.411 h
February	31.0°C18.7°C	18.7°C	9.1	2.7	11.712 h
March	31.3°C19.3°C	19.3°C	29	7.7	12.012 h
April	30.7°C20.1°C	20.1°C	86	17.2	12.412 h
May	28.9°C20.5°C	20.5°C	299	27.8	12.813 h
June	28.0°C20.2°C	20.2°C	360	28.8	13.013 h
July	28.7°C19.9°C	19.9°C	320	30.2	12.913 h
August	28.4°C19.8°C	19.8°C	358	30.4	12.613 h
September	27.5°C19.6°C	19.6°C	421	29.5	12.212 h
October	27.5°C19.3°C	19.3°C	413	28.8	11.812 h
November	28.3°C18.9°C	18.9°C	146	19.2	11.511 h
December	29.1°C18.7°C	18.7°C	27	7.3	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Escuintla

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Escuintla) is explained once on the Escuintla year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.