Climate and average weather in Panzos

In Panzos, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Panzos typically varies from 17°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 34°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Panzos for warm-weather activities are from early January to early April and mid November to late December.

Hottest
May
31°
Coldest
Jan
17°
Wettest
Jun
278 mm
Driest
Feb
77 mm
Rain / yr
2206 mm
252 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
18 m
15.4°N
Clearest
Mar
48% cloud

Panzos 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 January to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Panzos stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 31°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 17°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in April.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2517
Feb2617
Mar2818
Apr3020
May3121
Jun3021
Jul2921
Aug2921
Sep2921
Oct2820
Nov2619
Dec2517

How hot and cold Panzos really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Panzos feels like about 34°C (around June 3). About 139 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25251717
Feb26261717
Mar29281818
Apr32302020
May34312121
Jun33302121
Jul32292121
Aug32292121
Sep33292121
Oct30282020
Nov26261919
Dec25251717

Average hourly temperature in Panzos

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 May afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 17°C.

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

Panzos 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° / 17°12916.411.25.9
Feb26° / 17°771311.56.2
Mar28° / 18°8212.211.96.0
Apr30° / 20°851212.34.7
May31° / 21°17020.712.73.4
Jun30° / 21°27828.112.92.8
Jul29° / 21°25129.412.83.0
Aug29° / 21°23228.712.53.0
Sep29° / 21°27728.312.12.9
Oct28° / 20°27525.511.73.8
Nov26° / 19°20919.611.35.0
Dec25° / 17°14117.911.15.6

Chance of rain

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

Panzos gets about 2206 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 5.7 months, from around May 18 to Nov 8, peaking in June at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 28.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 278 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 77 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 21 · 95%Mar 28 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5316
Feb4713
Mar3912
Apr4012
May6721
Jun9328
Jul9429
Aug9329
Sep9428
Oct8326
Nov6620
Dec5818

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Panzos collects about 2206 mm of rain across 252 wet days — roughly 184 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 278 mm, while February is the driest at just 77 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec129778285170278251232277275209141
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan12916
Feb7713
Mar8212
Apr8512
May17021
Jun27828
Jul25129
Aug23229
Sep27728
Oct27526
Nov20920
Dec14118

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Panzos, 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 December 4 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around May 9. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 68% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 10 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around December 3. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 26 · 71%Jun 19 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4555
Feb6139
Mar6832
Apr6238
May3169
Jun1486
Jul2377
Aug2674
Sep1783
Oct2179
Nov3466
Dec4060

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 2, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan11.26:335:43
Feb11.56:295:58
Mar11.96:116:05
Apr12.35:486:09
May12.75:336:16
Jun12.95:326:26
Jul12.85:396:29
Aug12.55:476:18
Sep12.15:505:55
Oct11.75:545:33
Nov11.36:065:22
Dec11.16:225:27

Sunny days

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

Panzos averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around Dec 9 to May 12. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the March peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 2612 daysJun 171 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb9Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Panzos is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is May, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 97% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 10% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 12%May 7 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1933551
Feb1628642
Mar05216311
Apr01105435
May0033264
Jun0001287
Jul0002674
Aug0002080
Sep0001387
Oct0053659
Nov04195918
Dec1627624

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.

Wind in Panzos is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 11 · 4 km/hSep 17 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Panzos

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Panzos is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Panzos for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 6.3

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
Jan5.9good
Feb6.2good
Mar6.0good
Apr4.7fair
May3.4poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov5.0fair
Dec5.6good

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 Panzos for hot-weather activities is from mid February to early May, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 28 · 7.1

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 Panzos, 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.

For a warm-season trip around May (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Panzos sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Panzos 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 Panzos peaks around April 11 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 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 11UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Panzos

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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Panzos 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 Panzos is worst in May — around 71 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.8× the cleanest month (January, 15 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateMay 1368 µg/m³Jan 1315 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr54Poor
May71Unhealthy
Jun29Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Panzos 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. Panzos banks about 4,985 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan331
Feb323
Mar399
Apr448
May491
Jun467
Jul461
Aug467
Sep454
Oct436
Nov366
Dec344

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.

Panzos receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Feb 21 to Sep 21. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 42% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 226.1 kWhDec 23.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.7Moderate
Feb4.6Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is Panzos?

Panzos sits at 15.4°N, 89.6°W, 18 m above sea level, in Guatemala. The nearest listed city is El Estor, 36 km away.

El EstorGualánZacapaChiquimulaSan Pedro CarcháGuastatoyaCobánSalamá

Topography around Panzos

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Panzos has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 364 m around an average of 63 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,402 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,990 m.

The land around Panzos is covered by trees (59%) and grassland (35%) within 3 km, trees (75%) within 16 km, and trees (71%) within 80 km.

3 km
364 m
16 km
1,402 m
80 km
2,990 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: El Estor 36 km · Gualán 44 km · Zacapa 49 km · Chiquimula 67 km · San Pedro Carchá 72 km · Guastatoya 76 km · Cobán 79 km · Salamá 80 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 Panzos (15.3986°, -89.6415°, elevation 18 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. 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).