Two numbers decide a day at Tikal: whether the sky will be clear at sunrise, and how hot the plazas will feel at midday. This page takes the forecast for Tikal National Park for about the next five days and pulls out exactly those, next to the time of sunrise and the chance of rain in the afternoon.
The week at Tikal
Pulled Oct 6, 2026 at 13:00 Guatemala time from MET Norway and OpenWeather.
Weather data provided by OpenWeather
Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); processed by us| Day | Sunrise | Cloud cover, 5–6 AM | Rain chance, 6 AM step | Temp, 5–6 AM | Feels like, noon & 3 PM steps | Rain chance noon–6pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Oct 6 | 05:49 | — | — | — | 36°C (97°F) | 23% |
| Wed Oct 7 | 05:49 | 87% | 0% | 22°C (72°F) | 40°C (104°F) | 86% |
| Thu Oct 8 | 05:49 | 100% | 0% | 22°C (72°F) | 34°C (93°F) | 84% |
| Fri Oct 9 | 05:50 | 98% | 65% | 23°C (73°F) | 35°C (95°F) | 91% |
| Sat Oct 10 | 05:50 | 100% | 0% | 22°C (72°F) | 34°C (93°F) | 87% |
Point 17.2167, -89.6167 (Tikal National Park coordinates in the UNESCO World Heritage List). MET Norway's temperatures are for 265 m there; MET gives hourly steps until Oct 8, 11 PM, then 6-hourly. Rain chance and feels-like come from OpenWeather's forecast steps, stamped every 3 hours (midnight, 3 AM, 6 AM and so on, Guatemala time); each cell is the highest value among the steps stamped inside that window. A forecast, not a measurement. Temperatures in °C (°F), wind in km/h (mph).
How to read it. Cloud cover, 5-6 AM is MET Norway’s forecast share of the sky under cloud at 5:00 and 6:00, the higher of the two (after about 2.5 days MET’s steps are 6-hourly, so only the 6:00 value is left). Rain chance, 6 AM step is OpenWeather’s probability of precipitation for its forecast step stamped 6:00; its forecast moves in 3-hour steps. Feels like, noon & 3 PM steps is the higher of OpenWeather’s feels-like temperatures at those two steps. Rain chance, noon-6 PM is the highest of OpenWeather’s steps stamped noon and 3 PM.
Using it to plan the visit
- Sunrise tour: the dawn columns are the ones to watch. A Tikal sunrise tour is priced and timed around this hour; the exact sunrise time for each day of the week is also in sunrise and sunset times in Guatemala.
- Heat: the feels-like column gives the forecast for the middle of the day. If it is high, plan the climbs and the open plazas for the early morning and carry water.
- Afternoon rain: the last column shows the afternoon rain chance.
- Getting there: from Flores, see Flores to Tikal and Flores airport to Tikal; from Antigua or Guatemala City, Antigua to Flores and Tikal and Guatemala City to Flores and Tikal.
For month-by-month averages at Tikal (highs, lows and each month’s share of the year’s rain), see the best time to visit Guatemala, month by month.
Where the forecast comes from
The table combines MET Norway’s locationforecast and sunrise service (sunrise, dawn cloud and temperature) and OpenWeather’s 5-day, 3-hour forecast (rain chance, feels-like), read once a day by our data pipeline for a fixed point at the coordinates UNESCO lists for Tikal National Park. The stamp above the table shows when they were read. If a day’s read fails, the previous file stays in place: the page keeps showing that forecast, drops any days that have already passed when the page is rebuilt, and the stamp turns red once the forecast is more than 26 hours old. Guatemala’s official weather service is INSIVUMEH; official alerts are gathered on Guatemala weather alerts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the weather at Tikal this week?
The table on this page is a forecast for Tikal National Park for about the next five days, read once a day. For each day it shows sunrise, cloud cover and temperature at 5 and 6 AM (MET Norway), and from OpenWeather the rain chance at its 6 AM forecast step, the feels-like temperature at its noon and 3 PM steps, and the afternoon rain chance.
Will I see the sunrise at Tikal?
Look at the cloud-cover column for your day: it is the forecast share of the sky covered by cloud at 5 and 6 AM, the highest of the two. A forecast near 100% means a sky the model expects to be overcast at dawn. It is a model estimate for the park as a whole, not a promise about the view from one temple.
How hot is Tikal at midday?
The feels-like column is OpenWeather’s feels-like temperature, which OpenWeather describes as accounting for the human perception of weather, taken as the higher of its noon and 3 PM forecast steps. Over 1996-2025 Tikal’s average daily high ran from 27 °C in December and January to 34 °C in April and May in the reanalysis series our month-by-month guide uses.
Is the forecast for Tikal or for Flores?
For Tikal: the point is the park coordinates in UNESCO’s World Heritage listing (17°13’ N, 89°37’ W), and MET Norway reported its terrain height there as 265 m on 25 September 2026; the note under the table prints the current value. Flores, 63 km away by the Ministry of Culture’s count, has its own forecast in our national weather data.
