Climate averages 1991–2020

Quetzaltenango weather
in January.

A mild, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 19.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 11.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 30 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Quetzaltenango: daytime highs average 19.2°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th 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 Totonicapán (19 km away). In January its highs average 19.1°C, about as warm as Quetzaltenango, with 8.9 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Quetzaltenango ranks 22nd 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; Quetzaltenango is 5.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 20.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 39 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

Quetzaltenango climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Quetzaltenango, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	19.2°C11.6°C	11.6°C	30	9.6	11.411 h
February	20.2°C11.9°C	11.9°C	39	10.4	11.612 h
March	20.4°C12.5°C	12.5°C	109	20.5	12.012 h
April	20.3°C13.1°C	13.1°C	247	26.9	12.512 h
May	19.9°C13.8°C	13.8°C	550	30.4	12.813 h
June	19.3°C14.0°C	14.0°C	452	29.4	13.013 h
July	19.4°C13.7°C	13.7°C	297	28.7	12.913 h
August	19.5°C13.7°C	13.7°C	363	30.1	12.613 h
September	19.1°C13.8°C	13.8°C	479	29.8	12.212 h
October	18.8°C13.6°C	13.6°C	362	29.7	11.812 h
November	18.7°C12.7°C	12.7°C	117	21.2	11.511 h
December	18.9°C12.0°C	12.0°C	42	11.7	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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Quetzaltenango

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