Villa Canales climate

Name: Villa Canales
Address: GT

Villa Canales is warmest in April, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 15 °C. September is the wettest month (316 mm) and January the driest (5.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Villa Canales averages 1,624 mm of rain and 270 days above 25 °C.

Guatemala · population 155,423 · 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 April 28 °C
Coldest month January 15 °C
Driest month January 6 mm
Wettest month September 316 mm
Least cloud February 35 % cloud
Hottest on record April 34 °C
Coldest on record November 8.0 °C

What to expectVilla Canales through the year

Villa Canales changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 270 days a year reach 25 °C, 12 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 316 mm against 6 mm in January — 56 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.9 °C	6 mm	36 %
February	27.3 °C	7 mm	35 %
March	28.1 °C	23 mm	40 %
April	28.2 °C	65 mm	55 %
May	26.6 °C	213 mm	78 %
June	25.4 °C	314 mm	87 %
July	26.0 °C	179 mm	79 %
August	26.0 °C	216 mm	80 %
September	25.2 °C	316 mm	87 %
October	24.8 °C	221 mm	78 %
November	24.8 °C	53 mm	57 %
December	25.4 °C	13 mm	41 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.9 °C	14.7 °C	19.5 °C	30.1 °C	8.2 °C	23	0
February	27.3 °C	15.1 °C	20.4 °C	32.4 °C	9.5 °C	26	1
March	28.1 °C	15.9 °C	21.2 °C	33.5 °C	9.7 °C	30	4
April	28.2 °C	16.9 °C	21.9 °C	34.0 °C	10.1 °C	29	5
May	26.6 °C	17.5 °C	21.5 °C	33.1 °C	13.3 °C	26	1
June	25.4 °C	17.4 °C	20.8 °C	28.9 °C	14.6 °C	20	0
July	26.0 °C	17.3 °C	21.0 °C	30.0 °C	14.2 °C	25	0
August	26.0 °C	17.2 °C	21.0 °C	30.7 °C	13.9 °C	25	0
September	25.2 °C	17.1 °C	20.4 °C	28.2 °C	14.3 °C	19	0
October	24.8 °C	16.8 °C	20.1 °C	28.1 °C	11.1 °C	14	0
November	24.8 °C	15.8 °C	19.6 °C	28.6 °C	8.0 °C	14	0
December	25.4 °C	15.1 °C	19.5 °C	29.2 °C	8.4 °C	20	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	6 mm	1	11 h/day	36 %	70 %	14 km/h
February	7 mm	2	12 h/day	35 %	67 %	13 km/h
March	23 mm	6	12 h/day	40 %	67 %	12 km/h
April	65 mm	13	12 h/day	55 %	72 %	11 km/h
May	213 mm	23	13 h/day	78 %	81 %	8.8 km/h
June	314 mm	26	13 h/day	87 %	87 %	8.9 km/h
July	179 mm	20	13 h/day	79 %	81 %	10 km/h
August	216 mm	22	13 h/day	80 %	83 %	9.6 km/h
September	316 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	8.5 km/h
October	221 mm	21	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	9.5 km/h
November	53 mm	8	11 h/day	57 %	79 %	13 km/h
December	13 mm	3	11 h/day	41 %	74 %	13 km/h

How Villa Canales 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
Villa Canales	28 °C	15 °C	1,624 mm	270
Villa Nueva · Guatemala	28 °C	14 °C	1,611 mm	220
Guatemala City · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	723 mm	148
Mixco · Guatemala	26 °C	12 °C	693 mm	87
Escuintla · Guatemala	32 °C	19 °C	2,452 mm	360
Jalapa · Guatemala	27 °C	13 °C	1,124 mm	143

Where Villa Canales ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in January	11th of 50	5.7 mm
The driest places in North America in February	17th of 50	6.6 mm
Places with the best weather in North America in January	40th of 50	91/100
Places with the best weather in North America in December	44th of 50	92/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Villa Canales.

QuestionsCommon questions about Villa Canales’s climate

When is the best time to visit Villa Canales?

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

How hot does Villa Canales get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 12 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 15 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Villa Canales?

September, averaging 316 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,624 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 Villa Canales 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: 14.483°, -90.534° (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.