Climate and average weather in Fraijanes

In Fraijanes, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: early November to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Fraijanes typically varies from 12°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 29°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Fraijanes for warm-weather activities is from early November to late March.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Nov
14°
Wettest
Jun
324 mm
Driest
Jan
6 mm
Rain / yr
1667 mm
169 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,641 m
14.5°N
Clearest
Feb
35% cloud

Fraijanes weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early November to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Fraijanes, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Fraijanes stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 27°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 14°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2512
Feb2613
Mar2714
Apr2715
May2516
Jun2516
Jul2515
Aug2515
Sep2415
Oct2415
Nov2414
Dec2413

Average hourly temperature in Fraijanes

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on March afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 14°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Fraijanes weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan25° / 12°61.511.28.7
Feb26° / 13°71.811.58.4
Mar27° / 14°22611.97.5
Apr27° / 15°6612.712.36.1
May25° / 16°22723.112.74.6
Jun25° / 16°32425.812.84.1
Jul25° / 15°18118.912.85.2
Aug25° / 15°22721.412.54.8
Sep24° / 15°32226.712.14.0
Oct24° / 15°22620.711.75.1
Nov24° / 14°487.211.37.4
Dec24° / 13°132.811.28.5

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Fraijanes gets about 1667 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.2 months, from around Apr 22 to Oct 28, peaking in June at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 17.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 324 mm over about 26 wet days; January is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 5 · 91%Jan 17 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb72
Mar206
Apr4313
May7423
Jun8426
Jul6219
Aug7021
Sep8727
Oct6621
Nov247
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Fraijanes collects about 1667 mm of rain across 169 wet days — roughly 139 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 324 mm, while January is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6722662273241812273222264813
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan62
Feb72
Mar226
Apr6613
May22723
Jun32426
Jul18119
Aug22721
Sep32227
Oct22621
Nov487
Dec133

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Fraijanes, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 6 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 22. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 23 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around November 5. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 4 · 88%Jun 2 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8614
Feb8515
Mar7327
Apr5050
May1684
Jun1090
Jul1981
Aug1783
Sep1090
Oct2179
Nov5446
Dec7921

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 16, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:345:48
Feb11.56:316:02
Mar11.96:146:08
Apr12.35:526:12
May12.75:386:18
Jun12.85:366:28
Jul12.85:446:31
Aug12.55:516:20
Sep12.15:545:58
Oct11.75:575:37
Nov11.36:085:27
Dec11.26:235:32

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Fraijanes averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Nov 10 to Apr 10. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 419 daysSep 210 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov9Mixed
Dec16Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Fraijanes, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around April 23 to October 29. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 83% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 30 to April 22, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 2 · 100%Jun 8 · 10%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan762400
Feb742610
Mar543880
Apr2443321
May624664
Jun016812
Jul147520
Aug040600
Sep018820
Oct531641
Nov2655190
Dec564220

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Fraijanes is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Oct 28 to Mar 27. The windiest month is January, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 28 to Jul 15, with June the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 10 · 9 km/hJun 2 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Fraijanes

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Fraijanes's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Fraijanes

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Fraijanes throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid March, Fraijanes is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Fraijanes for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 15 · 8.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan8.7ideal
Feb8.4ideal
Mar7.5good
Apr6.1good
May4.6fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul5.2fair
Aug4.8fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct5.1fair
Nov7.4good
Dec8.5ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Fraijanes for hot-weather activities is from mid November to early April, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 16 · 8.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Fraijanes, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Fraijanes packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Fraijanes sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 14°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 6 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Fraijanes

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 66 km away) is warmest in August at about 30°C and coldest in January near 28°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Fraijanes by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Fraijanes peaks around April 13 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 13UV 14Nov 23UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Fraijanes

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan75
Feb86
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Fraijanes by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Fraijanes is worst in April — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModeratePoorApr 2046 µg/m³Jul 2030 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan33Moderate
Feb34Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr47Poor
May44Poor
Jun31Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct37Poor
Nov40Poor
Dec37Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Fraijanes is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Fraijanes banks about 3,538 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan263
Feb261
Mar312
Apr320
May326
Jun303
Jul313
Aug315
Sep297
Oct296
Nov267
Dec265

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Fraijanes receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around Jan 24 to May 16. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 25% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 196.2 kWhOct 54.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May5.4Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Fraijanes?

Fraijanes sits at 14.5°N, 90.4°W, 1,641 m above sea level, in Guatemala. The nearest listed city is San José Pinula, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Fraijanes

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Fraijanes.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Fraijanes has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 483 m around an average of 1,628 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,539 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,937 m.

The land around Fraijanes is covered by trees (89%) within 3 km, trees (71%) within 16 km, and trees (54%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
483 m
16 km
1,539 m
80 km
3,937 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: San José Pinula 9.0 km · Villa Canales 10 km · Santa Catarina Pinula 13 km · Petapa 14 km · Villa Nueva 17 km · Barberena 20 km · Amatitlán 21 km · Guatemala City 21 km

Guatemala travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 43% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$6,598
2025
Happiness
6.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
49%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
23.4
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
22.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 510
Religion
Evangelical 46%Roman Catholic 42%none 11%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Fraijanes (14.4653°, -90.4408°, elevation 1,641 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).