Climate averages 1991–2020

Malacatán weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 30 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Malacatán: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 21 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tapachula (22 km away). In January its highs average 29.8°C, 1.6°C warmer than Malacatán, with 18 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Malacatán ranks 5th of 23 for the warmest January highs and joint 18th of 23 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 23 cities is 24.6°C; Malacatán is 3.6°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 31 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

Malacatán climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Malacatán, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.2°C16.6°C	16.6°C	30	10.3	11.311 h
February	29.1°C16.8°C	16.8°C	31	10.3	11.612 h
March	29.5°C17.8°C	17.8°C	66	18.4	12.012 h
April	29.3°C18.6°C	18.6°C	130	24.7	12.512 h
May	27.9°C19.0°C	19.0°C	318	30.2	12.813 h
June	26.8°C18.8°C	18.8°C	425	29.5	13.013 h
July	27.3°C18.2°C	18.2°C	325	30.1	12.913 h
August	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	381	30.6	12.613 h
September	26.4°C18.4°C	18.4°C	462	29.9	12.212 h
October	26.2°C18.0°C	18.0°C	330	29.8	11.812 h
November	26.8°C17.4°C	17.4°C	110	22.1	11.411 h
December	27.4°C17.0°C	17.0°C	42	13.6	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 Malacatán

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