Villa Nueva climate
Villa Nueva is warmest in March, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. June is the wettest month (314 mm) and January the driest (5.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.
Across a full year Villa Nueva averages 1,611 mm of rain and 220 days above 25 °C.
Guatemala · population 618,397 · 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 28 °C
- Coldest month January 14 °C
- Driest month January 6 mm
- Wettest month June 314 mm
- Least cloud February 35 % cloud
- Hottest on record April 33 °C
- Coldest on record November 8.0 °C
What to expectVilla Nueva through the year
Villa Nueva changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 25 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, 220 days a year reach 25 °C, 6 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in April.
Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 314 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 | 25.5 °C | 6 mm | 37 % |
| February | 26.9 °C | 6 mm | 35 % |
| March | 27.6 °C | 23 mm | 40 % |
| April | 27.6 °C | 63 mm | 54 % |
| May | 26.0 °C | 208 mm | 78 % |
| June | 24.8 °C | 314 mm | 87 % |
| July | 25.4 °C | 183 mm | 79 % |
| August | 25.5 °C | 220 mm | 80 % |
| September | 24.6 °C | 310 mm | 87 % |
| October | 24.2 °C | 215 mm | 78 % |
| November | 24.3 °C | 51 mm | 58 % |
| December | 25.0 °C | 12 mm | 41 % |
Temperature month by month
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Mean | Record high | Record low | Days above 25 °C | Days above 30 °C | Days below 0 °C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.5 °C | 14.3 °C | 19.1 °C | 29.5 °C | 8.5 °C | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 26.9 °C | 14.7 °C | 20.1 °C | 31.2 °C | 9.4 °C | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 27.6 °C | 15.5 °C | 20.8 °C | 32.5 °C | 9.6 °C | 29 | 2 | 0 |
| April | 27.6 °C | 16.6 °C | 21.5 °C | 33.3 °C | 10.1 °C | 27 | 3 | 0 |
| May | 26.0 °C | 17.3 °C | 21.0 °C | 32.8 °C | 12.8 °C | 21 | 1 | 0 |
| June | 24.8 °C | 17.1 °C | 20.3 °C | 28.6 °C | 14.5 °C | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 25.4 °C | 16.7 °C | 20.5 °C | 29.9 °C | 13.9 °C | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 25.5 °C | 16.8 °C | 20.5 °C | 30.7 °C | 14.0 °C | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 24.6 °C | 16.7 °C | 20.0 °C | 28.2 °C | 14.1 °C | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 24.2 °C | 16.3 °C | 19.7 °C | 27.5 °C | 10.3 °C | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 24.3 °C | 15.3 °C | 19.2 °C | 27.7 °C | 8.0 °C | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| December | 25.0 °C | 14.5 °C | 19.1 °C | 28.7 °C | 8.4 °C | 16 | 0 | 0 |
Rain, sun and wind month by month
| Month | Rainfall | Wet days | Daylight | Cloud cover | Humidity | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 mm | 1 | 11 h/day | 37 % | 69 % | 14 km/h |
| February | 6 mm | 2 | 12 h/day | 35 % | 66 % | 13 km/h |
| March | 23 mm | 6 | 12 h/day | 40 % | 67 % | 12 km/h |
| April | 63 mm | 12 | 12 h/day | 54 % | 72 % | 11 km/h |
| May | 208 mm | 23 | 13 h/day | 78 % | 81 % | 8.9 km/h |
| June | 314 mm | 26 | 13 h/day | 87 % | 87 % | 9.0 km/h |
| July | 183 mm | 20 | 13 h/day | 79 % | 81 % | 11 km/h |
| August | 220 mm | 22 | 13 h/day | 80 % | 82 % | 9.7 km/h |
| September | 310 mm | 27 | 12 h/day | 87 % | 88 % | 8.7 km/h |
| October | 215 mm | 20 | 12 h/day | 78 % | 86 % | 9.6 km/h |
| November | 51 mm | 8 | 11 h/day | 58 % | 78 % | 13 km/h |
| December | 12 mm | 3 | 11 h/day | 41 % | 73 % | 13 km/h |
How Villa Nueva 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 Nueva | 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 |
| Escuintla · Guatemala | 32 °C | 19 °C | 2,452 mm | 360 |
| Jalapa · Guatemala | 27 °C | 13 °C | 1,124 mm | 143 |
Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Villa Nueva.
QuestionsCommon questions about Villa Nueva’s climate
When is the best time to visit Villa Nueva?
That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. February, September, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, March is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.
How hot does Villa Nueva get?
In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 6 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C.
How cold does it get in winter?
Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.
Which month is wettest in Villa Nueva?
June, averaging 314 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is January with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,611 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 Nueva 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
- 14.525°, -90.585° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
- Dataset version
- era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
- Last processed
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.