Climate averages 1991–2020
Totonicapán weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Totonicapán: daytime highs average 20.4°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 175 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 49 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Quetzaltenango (19 km away). In May its highs average 19.9°C, 0.5°C cooler than Totonicapán, with 550 mm of rain.
Among the 23 cities listed in Guatemala, Totonicapán ranks 22nd of 23 for the warmest May highs and joint 10th of 23 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 23 cities is 26.3°C; Totonicapán is 5.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 19.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 175 mm to 281 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Totonicapán climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.1°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 8.9 | 2.8 | 11.311 h |
| February | 20.4°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 8.5 | 2.3 | 11.612 h |
| March | 21.1°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 23 | 5.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 60 | 9.9 | 12.512 h |
| May, selected | 20.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 175 | 19.4 | 12.813 h |
| June | 19.4°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 281 | 25.8 | 13.013 h |
| July | 19.2°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 153 | 21.1 | 12.913 h |
| August | 19.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 186 | 22.9 | 12.613 h |
| September | 19.1°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 264 | 26.5 | 12.212 h |
| October | 18.7°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 183 | 20.7 | 11.812 h |
| November | 18.5°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 42 | 8.2 | 11.411 h |
| December | 18.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 17 | 3.7 | 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.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- Quetzaltenango in MayGuatemala · 19 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 13.8°C · 550 mm rain
- Santa Cruz del Quiché in MayGuatemala · 26 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 13.4°C · 175 mm rain
- Chichicastenango in MayGuatemala · 27 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 157 mm rain
- Mazatenango in MayGuatemala · 45 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 21.1°C · 437 mm rain
- Huehuetenango in MayGuatemala · 47 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.1°C · 166 mm rain
- Retalhuleu in MayGuatemala · 54 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.5°C · 351 mm rain
- Coatepeque in MayGuatemala · 59 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.0°C · 607 mm rain
- Chimaltenango in MayGuatemala · 64 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 15.4°C · 132 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Totonicapán) is explained once on the Totonicapán year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Santa Cruz del Quiché lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.