Escuintla climate

Name: Escuintla
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Escuintla is warmest in March, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. September is the wettest month (422 mm) and February the driest (9.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Escuintla averages 2,452 mm of rain and 360 days above 25 °C.

Guatemala · population 156,313 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month March 32 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month February 10 mm
Wettest month September 422 mm
Least cloud February 20 % cloud
Hottest on record March 38 °C
Coldest on record February 13 °C

What to expectEscuintla through the year

Escuintla changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 360 days a year reach 25 °C, 113 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 422 mm against 10 mm in February — 43 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.3 °C	10 mm	20 %
February	31.2 °C	10 mm	20 %
March	31.6 °C	28 mm	28 %
April	31.0 °C	82 mm	45 %
May	29.0 °C	289 mm	73 %
June	28.1 °C	365 mm	85 %
July	28.7 °C	306 mm	78 %
August	28.5 °C	358 mm	80 %
September	27.6 °C	422 mm	86 %
October	27.6 °C	415 mm	76 %
November	28.4 °C	142 mm	48 %
December	29.4 °C	27 mm	25 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.3 °C	19.0 °C	24.1 °C	36.7 °C	13.8 °C	31	17
February	31.2 °C	19.1 °C	24.7 °C	37.0 °C	12.7 °C	28	22
March	31.6 °C	19.7 °C	25.4 °C	37.7 °C	15.2 °C	31	25
April	31.0 °C	20.5 °C	25.6 °C	37.6 °C	16.5 °C	30	20
May	29.0 °C	20.7 °C	24.7 °C	35.9 °C	17.2 °C	31	7
June	28.1 °C	20.4 °C	24.0 °C	33.3 °C	18.2 °C	29	2
July	28.7 °C	20.1 °C	24.3 °C	32.1 °C	17.7 °C	31	5
August	28.5 °C	20.0 °C	24.1 °C	31.6 °C	17.2 °C	31	3
September	27.6 °C	19.9 °C	23.5 °C	31.8 °C	17.4 °C	29	1
October	27.6 °C	19.5 °C	23.3 °C	32.5 °C	15.1 °C	30	0
November	28.4 °C	19.2 °C	23.4 °C	32.6 °C	14.8 °C	30	2
December	29.4 °C	19.1 °C	23.7 °C	34.7 °C	14.0 °C	31	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	10 mm	3	11 h/day	20 %	66 %	12 km/h
February	10 mm	3	12 h/day	20 %	65 %	12 km/h
March	28 mm	8	12 h/day	28 %	66 %	12 km/h
April	82 mm	17	12 h/day	45 %	73 %	11 km/h
May	289 mm	27	13 h/day	73 %	84 %	8.6 km/h
June	365 mm	28	13 h/day	85 %	88 %	8.0 km/h
July	306 mm	29	13 h/day	78 %	85 %	8.0 km/h
August	358 mm	30	13 h/day	80 %	87 %	8.0 km/h
September	422 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	8.0 km/h
October	415 mm	28	12 h/day	76 %	88 %	7.9 km/h
November	142 mm	18	11 h/day	48 %	81 %	9.2 km/h
December	27 mm	7	11 h/day	25 %	73 %	11 km/h

How Escuintla compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Escuintla	32 °C	19 °C	2,452 mm	360
Villa Nueva · Guatemala	28 °C	14 °C	1,611 mm	220
Villa Canales · Guatemala	28 °C	15 °C	1,624 mm	270
Mixco · Guatemala	26 °C	12 °C	693 mm	87
Guatemala City · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	723 mm	148
Jalapa · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	1,124 mm	143

Where Escuintla ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in February	4th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	6th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	9th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	12th of 50	29 °C
The driest places in North America in January	27th of 50	10 mm
The driest places in North America in February	30th of 50	9.9 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Escuintla.

QuestionsCommon questions about Escuintla’s climate

When is the best time to visit Escuintla?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. September, October, November sit closest to 20 °C on average, March is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Escuintla get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 113 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Escuintla?

September, averaging 422 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is February with 10 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,452 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Escuintla rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 14.301°, -90.788° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.