Climate and average weather in Yepocapa

In Yepocapa, 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 September.

Best: late November to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yepocapa typically varies from 15°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 29°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Oct
17°
Wettest
Sep
429 mm
Driest
Jan
14 mm
Rain / yr
2457 mm
249 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,394 m
14.5°N
Clearest
Jan
29% cloud

Yepocapa 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 late November to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Yepocapa 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 16°C; the coolest is October, 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 February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2615
Feb2715
Mar2716
Apr2617
May2518
Jun2518
Jul2517
Aug2517
Sep2517
Oct2517
Nov2516
Dec2515

Average hourly temperature in Yepocapa

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 October, near 17°C.

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

Yepocapa 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
Jan26° / 15°144.511.28.1
Feb27° / 15°154.511.57.8
Mar27° / 16°4311.111.96.7
Apr26° / 17°1152112.35.0
May25° / 18°32229.412.73.7
Jun25° / 18°38629.512.83.5
Jul25° / 17°28529.712.83.6
Aug25° / 17°35030.312.53.6
Sep25° / 17°42929.812.13.5
Oct25° / 17°35429.711.73.7
Nov25° / 16°11420.111.35.4
Dec25° / 15°30911.27.5

Chance of rain

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

Yepocapa gets about 2457 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 7.0 months, from around Apr 15 to Nov 14, peaking in September at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 3.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 429 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 22 · 100%Feb 3 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb175
Mar3611
Apr7021
May9429
Jun9830
Jul9630
Aug9730
Sep9930
Oct9530
Nov6620
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yepocapa collects about 2457 mm of rain across 249 wet days — roughly 205 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 429 mm, while January is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec14154311532238628535042935411430
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan145
Feb155
Mar4311
Apr11521
May32229
Jun38630
Jul28530
Aug35030
Sep42930
Oct35430
Nov11420
Dec309

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yepocapa, 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 5 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 22. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 23 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around November 4. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 17 · 92%Sep 20 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan928
Feb8911
Mar7921
Apr5347
May1783
Jun892
Jul1486
Aug1387
Sep694
Oct1981
Nov6040
Dec8713

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 15, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan11.26:365:50
Feb11.56:336:04
Mar11.96:166:10
Apr12.35:546:14
May12.75:406:20
Jun12.85:386:30
Jul12.85:466:33
Aug12.55:536:23
Sep12.15:566:01
Oct11.75:595:39
Nov11.36:105:29
Dec11.26:265:34

Sunny days

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

Yepocapa averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Nov 8 to Apr 1. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the January peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 1223 daysSep 190 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov11Mixed
Dec21Bright

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 Yepocapa, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around April 7 to November 14. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 15 to April 6, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 93% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 18 · 94%Jun 4 · 0%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan365670
Feb3951100
Mar2244331
Apr4226410
May135838
Jun016139
Jul028513
Aug017920
Sep007129
Oct167321
Nov728605
Dec1757251

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 9 · 6 km/hJun 1 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar5calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Yepocapa

In seasonPeak

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

Yepocapa's rainy season runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Yepocapa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Yepocapa 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 Yepocapa for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 15 · 8.2

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
Jan8.1ideal
Feb7.8ideal
Mar6.7good
Apr5.0fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.5fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov5.4fair
Dec7.4good

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 Yepocapa for hot-weather activities is from early December to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 7 · 7.9

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 Yepocapa, 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.

Yepocapa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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 March, Yepocapa sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 16°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Yepocapa

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 70 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 Yepocapa 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 Yepocapa peaks around April 14 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 21 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 14UV 13Nov 21UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Yepocapa

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 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
Apr86.5
May8.56
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec6.54.5

Air quality in Yepocapa 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 Yepocapa 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

Yepocapa 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. Yepocapa banks about 4,012 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan319
Feb305
Mar353
Apr348
May356
Jun337
Jul350
Aug347
Sep329
Oct335
Nov316
Dec317

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.

Yepocapa receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Jan 17 to May 19. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 166.1 kWhOct 64.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May5.4Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Yepocapa?

Yepocapa sits at 14.5°N, 91.0°W, 1,394 m above sea level, in Guatemala. The nearest listed city is Patzicía, 15 km away.

Topography around Yepocapa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yepocapa has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 785 m around an average of 1,457 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,519 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,937 m.

The land around Yepocapa is covered by trees (88%) within 3 km, trees (83%) within 16 km, and trees (60%) within 80 km.

3 km
785 m
16 km
3,519 m
80 km
3,937 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Patzicía 15 km · Alotenango 16 km · Zaragoza 18 km · San Andrés Itzapa 18 km · Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa 20 km · Ciudad Vieja 21 km · Patzún 21 km · Chimaltenango 23 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 Yepocapa (14.502°, -90.954°, elevation 1,394 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).