Aguascalientes climate

Name: Aguascalientes
Address: MX

Aguascalientes is warmest in May, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 7.1 °C. July is the wettest month (113 mm) and April the driest (5.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Aguascalientes averages 493 mm of rain, 188 days above 25 °C and 0 days below freezing.

Mexico · population 722,250 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month January 7.1 °C
Driest month April 6 mm
Wettest month July 113 mm
Least cloud March 33 % cloud
Hottest on record May 37 °C
Coldest on record December -3.2 °C

What to expectAguascalientes through the year

Aguascalientes has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 21 °C in January to 30 °C in May, a swing of 8.7 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 188 days a year reach 25 °C, 40 of them reach 30 °C, 0 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 113 mm against 6 mm in April — 20 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.3 °C	17 mm	40 %
February	23.6 °C	13 mm	34 %
March	26.4 °C	7 mm	33 %
April	28.9 °C	6 mm	38 %
May	30.0 °C	26 mm	36 %
June	28.1 °C	76 mm	51 %
July	25.8 °C	113 mm	61 %
August	25.9 °C	90 mm	57 %
September	24.5 °C	89 mm	65 %
October	24.7 °C	36 mm	46 %
November	23.4 °C	12 mm	34 %
December	21.9 °C	8 mm	40 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	21.3 °C	7.1 °C	13.8 °C	26.5 °C	-0.3 °C	1	0
February	23.6 °C	8.3 °C	15.6 °C	30.5 °C	-0.1 °C	10	0
March	26.4 °C	10.2 °C	18.2 °C	33.3 °C	2.0 °C	23	1
April	28.9 °C	12.7 °C	20.9 °C	33.7 °C	6.6 °C	28	10
May	30.0 °C	14.9 °C	22.5 °C	37.1 °C	9.3 °C	30	17
June	28.1 °C	15.7 °C	21.5 °C	34.9 °C	11.1 °C	24	9
July	25.8 °C	14.6 °C	19.7 °C	32.3 °C	9.6 °C	18	1
August	25.9 °C	14.7 °C	19.8 °C	33.1 °C	11.5 °C	19	2
September	24.5 °C	14.2 °C	18.8 °C	30.6 °C	7.8 °C	11	0
October	24.7 °C	12.4 °C	18.1 °C	30.5 °C	4.6 °C	14	0
November	23.4 °C	9.8 °C	16.2 °C	29.1 °C	0.3 °C	8	0
December	21.9 °C	7.9 °C	14.5 °C	26.8 °C	-3.2 °C	1	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	40 %	49 %	18 km/h
February	13 mm	2	11 h/day	34 %	44 %	19 km/h
March	7 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	34 %	20 km/h
April	6 mm	1	13 h/day	38 %	31 %	20 km/h
May	26 mm	6	13 h/day	36 %	39 %	18 km/h
June	76 mm	11	13 h/day	51 %	58 %	17 km/h
July	113 mm	14	13 h/day	61 %	68 %	16 km/h
August	90 mm	12	13 h/day	57 %	67 %	16 km/h
September	89 mm	12	12 h/day	65 %	71 %	15 km/h
October	36 mm	6	12 h/day	46 %	61 %	16 km/h
November	12 mm	2	11 h/day	34 %	53 %	16 km/h
December	8 mm	1	11 h/day	40 %	50 %	16 km/h

How Aguascalientes 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
Aguascalientes	30 °C	7.1 °C	493 mm	188
Guadalupe · Mexico	27 °C	4.9 °C	552 mm	91
León de los Aldama · Mexico	30 °C	8.3 °C	568 mm	199
San Luis Potosí · Mexico	29 °C	6.7 °C	487 mm	163
Irapuato · Mexico	31 °C	8.6 °C	646 mm	256
Tonalá · Mexico	31 °C	10 °C	660 mm	213
Zapopan · Mexico	32 °C	9.6 °C	819 mm	272

Where Aguascalientes ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in November	13th of 50	12 mm
Places with the best weather in North America in November	14th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in North America year-round	16th of 50	86/100
Places with the best weather in North America in October	17th of 50	94/100
The driest places in North America in March	17th of 50	7.4 mm
The driest places in North America in April	20th of 50	5.7 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Aguascalientes.

QuestionsCommon questions about Aguascalientes’s climate

When is the best time to visit Aguascalientes?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. April, July, August 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 Aguascalientes get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 40 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 7.1 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 0 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Aguascalientes?

July, averaging 113 mm over 14 days with rain. The driest month is April with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 493 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 Aguascalientes 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: 21.883°, -102.284° (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.