Climate averages 1991–2020

Santa Cruz del Quiché weather
in July.

A mild, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 21.1°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 13.3°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 153 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Santa Cruz del Quiché · average highYear overview

July is a mild month in Santa Cruz del Quiché: daytime highs average 21.1°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 153 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes July a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Chichicastenango (10 km away). In July its highs average 20.9°C, about as warm as Santa Cruz del Quiché, with 157 mm of rain.

Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Santa Cruz del Quiché ranks 20th of 23 for the warmest July highs and joint 7th of 23 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 23 cities is 25.0°C; Santa Cruz del Quiché is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 21.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 153 mm to 186 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 51015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

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

Every month, side by side

Santa Cruz del Quiché climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Santa Cruz del Quiché, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 20.3°C10.3°C10.3°C8.92.811.311 h
February 22.1°C10.6°C10.6°C8.52.311.612 h
March 23.7°C11.3°C11.3°C235.112.012 h
April 24.6°C12.5°C12.5°C609.912.512 h
May 23.2°C13.4°C13.4°C17519.412.813 h
June 21.6°C13.7°C13.7°C28125.813.013 h
July, selected 21.1°C13.3°C13.3°C15321.112.913 h
August 21.4°C13.4°C13.4°C18622.912.613 h
September 21.2°C13.6°C13.6°C26426.512.212 h
October 20.5°C13.2°C13.2°C18320.711.812 h
November 19.7°C11.8°C11.8°C428.211.411 h
December 19.9°C10.9°C10.9°C173.711.311 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Santa Cruz del Quiché

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 Santa Cruz del Quiché) is explained once on the Santa Cruz del Quiché year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Totonicapán lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.