Flores weather by month
The best time to visit Flores is December to February — 81/100 in February, 31°C and 5 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, November to May (71/100 on average).
The worst month is May at 49/100 — sweltering, a little rain. See May →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Guatemala →
Best season: November to May (71/100 on average) · worst May (49/100)
- Days
- 31°C
- Nights
- 19°C
- Wet days
- 5
- Sun
- 9.4 h
- Humidity
- 71%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Flores, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Flores is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Flores through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Flores in February
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyone of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Flores
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Money
A practical guide to Flores warns that cash is essential: almost nowhere on the island takes cards, and the town has only two ATMs that don't always work, so sorting out enough cash before arriving is worth the extra planning. For the main reason most people come, their advice was to book the early-bird Tikal tour with a 6am entry, since arriving that early beats both the worst of the heat and the tour-group crowds that build up through the morning.
Traveller notes on Flores
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe the shoulder season around Flores as cool in the mornings and evenings, down into the 50sF, warming to a comfortable 75-80F during the day - conditions posters expect to hold similarly through January as part of Guatemala's dry season. Posters are direct that being high season, January brings real crowds and noticeably higher hotel rates, in one case as much as 50% above earlier-booking prices. Posters describe Flores itself as a charming, easily walkable island town, typically visited as a base for Tikal, about a 90-minute drive away. Posters generally rate January as a comfortable, reliably dry time to visit, with cost and crowding rather than weather the main planning trade-off.
Guatemala's forum flags July for a real local phenomenon: 'la canícula,' a lull in the rainy season that locals recognize, making early-to-mid July noticeably less wet than the mid-July-through-August stretch that follows. Posters visiting Flores and nearby Tikal described the heat and humidity as intense but manageable for walking the ruins, with one traveler recalling four or five genuinely rainy afternoons across a longer stay and good weather the rest of the time. Everything stays lush and green throughout, which several people considered a fair trade for the humidity.
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