Climate and average weather in Soloma

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

Best: mid November to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Soloma typically varies from 9°C to 22°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 25°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Soloma for warm-weather activities is from mid November to late April.

Hottest
Apr
22°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jun
385 mm
Driest
Feb
30 mm
Rain / yr
2028 mm
229 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,270 m
15.7°N
Clearest
Feb
45% cloud

Soloma 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 mid November to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Soloma stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 22°C and low of 11°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 9°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan199
Feb209
Mar2110
Apr2211
May2212
Jun2113
Jul2112
Aug2112
Sep2112
Oct2012
Nov1910
Dec199

Average hourly temperature in Soloma

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 April afternoons, near 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Soloma 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
Jan19° / 431011.26.2
Feb20° / 308.311.56.6
Mar21° / 10°5012.111.96.5
Apr22° / 11°9717.612.35.7
May22° / 12°21624.512.74.4
Jun21° / 13°38528.912.93.5
Jul21° / 12°22025.912.84.0
Aug21° / 12°26526.712.53.9
Sep21° / 12°3472812.13.6
Oct20° / 12°23823.611.64.2
Nov19° / 10°8613.811.35.5
Dec19° / 489.711.16.2

Chance of rain

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

Soloma gets about 2028 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 27 to Oct 31, peaking in June at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 21.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 385 mm over about 29 wet days; February is the driest, with 30 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 17 · 96%Feb 21 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb308
Mar4012
Apr5818
May7925
Jun9529
Jul8426
Aug8627
Sep9328
Oct7724
Nov4614
Dec3210

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Soloma collects about 2028 mm of rain across 229 wet days — roughly 169 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 385 mm, while February is the driest at just 30 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec433050972163852202653472388648
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan4310
Feb308
Mar5012
Apr9718
May21625
Jun38529
Jul22026
Aug26527
Sep34728
Oct23824
Nov8614
Dec4810

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Soloma, 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 14 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around May 6. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 7 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around November 13. 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 23 · 79%Jun 19 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb7525
Mar7525
Apr6337
May2872
Jun1090
Jul1882
Aug1882
Sep1090
Oct1882
Nov4060
Dec5743

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 May 31, 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)
Jan11.26:405:50
Feb11.56:366:05
Mar11.96:196:12
Apr12.35:556:16
May12.75:406:24
Jun12.95:386:34
Jul12.85:466:37
Aug12.55:546:26
Sep12.15:576:03
Oct11.66:025:40
Nov11.36:135:29
Dec11.16:305:34

Sunny days

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

Soloma averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Nov 22 to May 1. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 2615 daysSep 270 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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 Soloma, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9910
Feb9820
Mar9460
Apr76240
May41581
Jun18821
Jul40600
Aug34660
Sep18810
Oct37621
Nov76240
Dec9460

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 Soloma is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 23 · 6 km/hJun 5 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Soloma

In seasonPeak

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

Soloma'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 Soloma

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 6.8

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
Jan6.2good
Feb6.6good
Mar6.5good
Apr5.6good
May4.4fair
Jun3.5fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct4.2fair
Nov5.5fair
Dec6.1good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 27 · 4.2

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 Soloma, 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.

Soloma packs about the same all year — highs hold near 22°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Soloma sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Soloma 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 Soloma peaks around April 12 at about 15 (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 12UV 15Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Soloma

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
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Soloma 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 Soloma is worst in May — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.1× the cleanest month (January, 12 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 1137 µg/m³Jan 112 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb13Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr35Moderate
May38Poor
Jun21Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Soloma 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. Soloma banks about 2,038 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan108
Feb119
Mar165
Apr196
May216
Jun204
Jul192
Aug197
Sep199
Oct187
Nov138
Dec117

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.

Soloma receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around Feb 11 to May 27. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 156.5 kWhDec 104.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Soloma?

Soloma sits at 15.7°N, 91.4°W, 2,270 m above sea level, in Guatemala. The nearest listed city is Jacaltenango, 30 km away.

JacaltenangoHuehuetenangoNebajMomostenangoCabricánComitancilloSanta Cruz del QuichéComalapa

Topography around Soloma

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Soloma has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 854 m around an average of 2,372 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,692 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,680 m.

The land around Soloma is covered by trees (80%) within 3 km, trees (89%) within 16 km, and trees (79%) within 80 km.

3 km
854 m
16 km
2,692 m
80 km
3,680 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Jacaltenango 30 km · Huehuetenango 38 km · Nebaj 41 km · Momostenango 68 km · Cabricán 69 km · Comitancillo 72 km · Santa Cruz del Quiché 76 km · Comalapa 76 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 Soloma (15.6584°, -91.4299°, elevation 2,270 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).