Climate averages 1991–2020

Jutiapa weather
in August.

A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 19.5°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 140 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a hot month in Jutiapa: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 19.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jalapa (41 km away). In August its highs average 24.9°C, 3.5°C cooler than Jutiapa, with 138 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Jutiapa ranks joint 5th of 23 for the warmest August highs and 4th of 23 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 23 cities is 25.2°C; Jutiapa is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 140 mm to 236 mm.

The annual picture

August 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

Jutiapa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Jutiapa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.7°C16.5°C	16.5°C	1.6	0.4	11.411 h
February	29.1°C17.1°C	17.1°C	2.0	0.8	11.712 h
March	30.3°C18.0°C	18.0°C	9.9	2.8	12.012 h
April	30.9°C19.5°C	19.5°C	36	8.2	12.412 h
May	29.2°C20.1°C	20.1°C	159	20.7	12.813 h
June	27.5°C19.6°C	19.6°C	215	24.2	13.013 h
July	28.2°C19.4°C	19.4°C	100	17.2	12.913 h
August, selected	28.4°C19.5°C	19.5°C	140	19.9	12.613 h
September	27.3°C19.3°C	19.3°C	236	25.2	12.212 h
October	26.6°C18.7°C	18.7°C	181	18.7	11.812 h
November	26.9°C17.5°C	17.5°C	25	4.6	11.511 h
December	27.4°C16.8°C	16.8°C	4.4	1.2	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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Jutiapa

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 Jutiapa) is explained once on the Jutiapa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.