Acapulco de Juárez climate

Name: Acapulco de Juárez
Address: MX

Acapulco de Juárez is warmest in May, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 21 °C. September is the wettest month (344 mm) and April the driest (1.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Acapulco de Juárez averages 1,421 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 658,609 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month May 32 °C
Coldest month February 21 °C
Driest month April 1 mm
Wettest month September 344 mm
Least cloud February 24 % cloud
Hottest on record October 39 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectAcapulco de Juárez through the year

Acapulco de Juárez changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 231 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 344 mm against 1 mm in April — 310 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Acapulco de Juárez is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in March at 28 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.5 °C	12 mm	32 %
February	30.8 °C	5 mm	24 %
March	31.2 °C	4 mm	24 %
April	31.9 °C	1 mm	29 %
May	32.2 °C	35 mm	44 %
June	30.4 °C	258 mm	76 %
July	30.4 °C	243 mm	78 %
August	30.1 °C	277 mm	80 %
September	29.3 °C	344 mm	85 %
October	29.4 °C	189 mm	69 %
November	30.0 °C	42 mm	43 %
December	30.3 °C	10 mm	34 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.5 °C	21.5 °C	25.8 °C	34.8 °C	16.4 °C	31	19
February	30.8 °C	21.3 °C	26.0 °C	34.1 °C	16.4 °C	28	21
March	31.2 °C	21.6 °C	26.4 °C	35.0 °C	16.4 °C	31	26
April	31.9 °C	22.6 °C	27.2 °C	34.7 °C	18.1 °C	30	28
May	32.2 °C	24.3 °C	28.1 °C	35.6 °C	19.5 °C	31	29
June	30.4 °C	24.4 °C	27.2 °C	35.1 °C	21.5 °C	30	19
July	30.4 °C	24.4 °C	27.2 °C	34.2 °C	21.3 °C	31	20
August	30.1 °C	24.3 °C	27.0 °C	33.4 °C	21.2 °C	31	18
September	29.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.4 °C	33.1 °C	21.5 °C	30	9
October	29.4 °C	23.8 °C	26.5 °C	38.9 °C	20.0 °C	31	9
November	30.0 °C	23.2 °C	26.4 °C	34.0 °C	19.5 °C	30	14
December	30.3 °C	22.1 °C	26.0 °C	34.3 °C	18.8 °C	31	18

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	12 mm	1	11 h/day	32 %	72 %	11 km/h	28.5 °C
February	5 mm	1	12 h/day	24 %	70 %	12 km/h	27.9 °C
March	4 mm	0	12 h/day	24 %	69 %	13 km/h	27.5 °C
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	29 %	69 %	14 km/h	27.6 °C
May	35 mm	6	13 h/day	44 %	72 %	13 km/h	28.7 °C
June	258 mm	21	13 h/day	76 %	82 %	11 km/h	29.7 °C
July	243 mm	21	13 h/day	78 %	84 %	9.9 km/h	30.3 °C
August	277 mm	23	13 h/day	80 %	85 %	10 km/h	30.4 °C
September	344 mm	24	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	10 km/h	30.0 °C
October	189 mm	21	12 h/day	69 %	87 %	9.6 km/h	29.6 °C
November	42 mm	7	11 h/day	43 %	82 %	9.5 km/h	29.6 °C
December	10 mm	2	11 h/day	34 %	76 %	10 km/h	29.0 °C

How Acapulco de Juárez compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Acapulco de Juárez	32 °C	21 °C	1,421 mm	365
Chilpancingo · Mexico	32 °C	15 °C	1,834 mm	335
Jiutepec · Mexico	31 °C	11 °C	736 mm	267
Cuautla · Mexico	32 °C	12 °C	1,091 mm	322
Cuernavaca · Mexico	30 °C	9.5 °C	1,303 mm	182
Toluca · Mexico	22 °C	5.5 °C	1,225 mm	7
Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas · Mexico	31 °C	21 °C	1,240 mm	364

Where Acapulco de Juárez ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in January	5th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	6th of 50	30 °C
The driest places in North America in April	7th of 50	1.1 mm
The driest places in North America in March	7th of 50	4.4 mm
The driest places in North America in February	11th of 50	4.9 mm
The warmest places in North America in February	11th of 50	31 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Acapulco de Juárez’s climate

When is the best time to visit Acapulco de Juárez?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, May is the warmest month and April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Acapulco de Juárez get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 231 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Acapulco de Juárez?

September, averaging 344 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is April with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,421 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Acapulco de Juárez rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 16.849°, -99.909° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.