Guatemala City - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the overall climate: is it extremely hot or cold, wet or dry, at any time of year, for example?
The climate is glorious. It is generally between 70 and 80 degrees every day. There is a rainy season (May - October). - Mar 2023
There's a wet season and a dry season. Otherwise the temperatures are mild throughout the year. A day that hits 80F is hot. A day that hits 65F is cold. Wet season is not like a monsoon. It might rain once a day for a few months, but it doesn't rain for days on end. You always get breaks in the rain. If you enjoy seasons, this is not an ideal place. If you thrive in moderate weather, you'll love it. Overall, most days get some sun. - Oct 2022
The summer months are very, very rainy. And by April it feels very hot. Houses/apartments almost never have AC, so you may want to bring your own portable unit(s). The temperature is temperate, within the same 20 degree range year-round, day and night, but it can feel dramatically different if it's sunny vs. cloudy due to the altitude. - Oct 2022
Guatemala is called "Eterna Primavera" which means eternal spring because the weather here is always perfect. Never hot nor too cold. The only thing is they do have a heavy rainy season usually May through July. Expect rain every afternoon during this time, but it only last an hour if that at a time. The humidity is low almost non-existent. - Jul 2021
The weather is the best part about this post. The dry season lasts about 7 months, and it is in the high 80s around noon and drops to the 50s or 60s at night. It is dry and lovely most of the time. I hate hot weather, and I loved it here. We found ourselves outside nearly every day. The rainy season is, well, rainy, but it rarely lasts all day. We go swimming in January. This is an incredible place for kids -- my kids play outside at least four hours every day, year-round. - Jan 2020
The weather here is as close to perfect as I can imagine. It changes enough that there are discernible seasons; there are times of year when it's warmer or colder, but never TOO hot or TOO cold. The rainy season and dry season are predictable, and the rains are very tolerable. Even at the height of rainy season, there are usually sunny, bright mornings to be had. - Mar 2019
Average almost all the time. Summer heat is direct, but the temperature may not seem as hot as it feels. Guate has a 'raining season' (all thru summer). Winter turns chilly, but further up the mountain (by Colegio May school, it is cold!). A/C and heat not generally provided. - Feb 2019
There's a rainy season from May-November, during which it rains most days and mostly in the afternoons. In the capital, the temperature doesn't vary much, March and April months might be five or seven degrees (F) warmer than the rest of the year. Guatemala has 20-something microclimates, mostly based on altitude. You can travel from Quetzaltenango, where the weather is typically cool to cold and it even snowed once (decades ago) to Rehaltuleu, where average highs are in the 90sF, in less than an hour. - Jun 2015
The weather is perfect! Cool nights (in the 50s F) and sunny afternoon (70s-low 80s F). During the rainy season (May-August), the weather is nice until the late afternoon and then there are loud thunder- and lightning storms. - Apr 2014
As hinted before, Guateamala deserves the epithet of "Land of the Eternal Spring". In the capital, it is never too cold nor too warm, the temperatures ranging from 15 to 25 degrees Celsius most of the year. It gets quite hot in the Peten department, however, where the climate is decidedly tropical. The country is, however, prone to periodic floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. My tour of duty coincided with the second strongest earthquake in the country's history, but after the 1976 catastrophe, which killed more than 20,000 people, the country adopted stricter building codes, and so the damage this time has been much less serious. Most new buildings are earthquake proof. - Jan 2014
Known as the "Land of Eternal Springtime," Guatemala enjoys a temperate climate. Although, as one of the top ten countries most vulnerable to climate change, Guatemala is at risk of hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters. As Guatemala is in a seismic zone, there is always the threat of an earthquake. - Nov 2011
They call Guatemala "the country of the eternal springtime" because it feels like spring year 'round. They claim to have only 2 seasons: winter and summer. Winter is during the US summertime and is named that because of the rains that come in the afternoon. Summer is the dry season between October and May. Temperature-wise it always stays the same. It's great! - May 2010
