Climate averages 1991–2020

Escuintla weather
in March.

A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.3°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 19.3°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 29 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Escuintla: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (26 km away). In March its highs average 30.9°C, about as warm as Escuintla, with 18 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Escuintla ranks 2nd of 23 for the warmest March highs and 15th of 23 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 23 cities is 27.0°C; Escuintla is 4.3°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 30.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 86 mm.

The annual picture

March 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	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, selected	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

March 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.