Sunrise and Sunset Times in Guatemala: Today for 22 Cities, the Week for Antigua, Atitlán, Tikal and Acatenango

Every time on this page is Guatemala time, which is UTC-6 all year: the country has not changed its clocks since 2006, so sunrise and sunset drift with the seasons and never jump by an hour. Two feeds fill the tables. The first covers today for every departmental capital; the second gives the week ahead for four destinations that each have their own forecast page on this site. A third, fixed table further down gives Guatemala City’s 2027 sunrise and sunset month by month.

Today, city by city

The week ahead at Antigua, Lake Atitlán, Tikal and Acatenango

These are astronomical times. Whether you see the sun at that minute depends on cloud, which is the question the destination weather pages answer with their forecasts:

• Tikal: Tikal weather shows forecast cloud cover at 5 and 6 AM and the rain chance at the 6 AM forecast step, the window a Tikal sunrise tour is sold on.
• Acatenango: Acatenango summit weather gives the overnight low, wind and rain on the summit for each night in the forecast, for the overnight hike.
• Lake Atitlán: Lake Atitlán weather splits the wind into morning and afternoon, useful before the Indian Nose sunrise hike and the boat back.
• Antigua: Antigua weather shows when in the day the rain is forecast.

Guatemala City in 2027, month by month

The two tables above are live. This one is fixed: sunrise, sunset and day length in Guatemala City on the 1st and 15th of every month of 2027, copied as printed from timeanddate.com’s twelve monthly sun pages for the city (read 26 October 2026). Each of those pages states “All times are local time for Guatemala City”, that is Guatemala time, UTC-6 with no clock change.

The extremes of 2027. We sorted all 365 daily rows of the same twelve pages (read 26 October 2026). Sunrise and sunset are printed to the minute, so where the same minute repeats on consecutive days the table gives the whole run of dates:

In the 2027 table, sunrise spans one hour (05:31 to 06:31) and sunset 66 minutes (17:29 to 18:35), and the longest day is 1 hour 43 minutes 40 seconds longer than the shortest. The earliest sunrises (1–3 June) and the longest day (21 June) fall on different dates, as do the earliest sunsets (18–23 November) and the shortest days (21 and 22 December).

How these were read. Every time in the two tables is copied from the source’s daily rows. We computed only the extremes (the minimum and maximum of those 365 rows) and the spans in the paragraph above. The times are for Guatemala City: for the other departmental capitals, use today’s city table at the top of the page.

Reading the tables

• Sunrise and sunset are astronomical times computed for each table’s coordinates (the city, or the forecast point). A volcano, a ridge or a cloud bank on your horizon changes the moment you actually see the sun.
• First light and last light (city table) are astronomical dawn and dusk as sunrisesunset.io defines them: the faintest brightening of the sky, and its last trace.
• Day length is sunrise to sunset.
• The city table is for one day, the day the feed last ran (printed above the table). The destination table covers about five days from its own feed date; days already past are dropped when the page is rebuilt.

Where these numbers come from

• City table: sunrisesunset.io, queried once a day for the coordinates of each departmental capital. If one city’s request fails, that city keeps its previous values rather than dropping out (the stamp does not show this per city). If the whole run fails, the previous file stays in place and the stamp turns red once it is more than 50 hours old.
• Destination table: MET Norway’s sunrise service (sunrise 3.0), read once a day for fixed points: the same Antigua and Panajachel points as our national forecast, Tikal at the coordinates in UNESCO’s World Heritage listing, and the Acatenango summit. On a failed read the previous file stays in place: days already past are dropped when the page is rebuilt, and the stamp turns red once the forecast is more than 26 hours old.
• 2027 table: timeanddate.com’s twelve monthly sun pages for Guatemala City, 2027, read 26 October 2026. It is a fixed table and is not refreshed by either feed.

Related: time in Guatemala for the clock difference with US cities, and eclipses visible from Guatemala for eclipse dates and local times. The month-by-month picture of rain and temperature is in our best time to visit Guatemala guide.