Estimated rainfall by department and municipality, every ten days since 1981 (WFP)
Estimated rainfall for each Guatemalan department and municipality by dekad (ten-day period), its one- and three-month totals and their anomalies in per cent against the long-term average, from January 1981 to October 2026, calculated by the World Food Programme (WFP) from CHIRPS data of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazards Center and distributed by HDX.
- data points
- 3,349,320
- series
- 2,034
- Period
- 1st dekad of Jan 1981 to 3rd dekad of Oct 2026
- Licence
- use allowed with attribution
- Attribution the licence asks for
- Source: WFP, subnational rainfall indicators from CHIRPS v2 / CHIRPS-GEFS (Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara), via HDX. Licence: CC BY.
- Licence read on
- Nov 8, 2026
- Frequencies
- Every 10 days: 2,034 series
- Nature of the data
- Estimated: 3,349,320 data points
- Retrieved
- Nov 7, 2026
- Data state
- Advance Guatemala keeps the data point as the source published it: it does not compare it with other sources or apply the tolerance bands it uses for the site's verified figures.
Dimensions
How the source classifies its series, with the most frequent values first.
Department
- Huehuetenango
- San Marcos
- Quetzaltenango
- Quiché
- Alta Verapaz
- Guatemala
- Jutiapa
- Suchitepéquez
Notes
These are estimates combining satellite and rain-gauge data, averaged by WFP over each unit; they are not station readings. The most recent dekads are preliminary and flagged as such. The long-term average was not included as a series.
Series
Every series in the dataset. Open one to see its data points, each with its source link.