Chilpancingo climate

Name: Chilpancingo
Address: MX

Chilpancingo is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 15 °C. August is the wettest month (361 mm) and February the driest (12 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Chilpancingo averages 1,834 mm of rain and 335 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 187,251 · 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 April 32 °C
Coldest month January 15 °C
Driest month February 12 mm
Wettest month August 361 mm
Least cloud March 29 % cloud
Hottest on record May 38 °C
Coldest on record January 8.7 °C

What to expectChilpancingo through the year

Chilpancingo has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 32 °C in April, a swing of 3.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 335 days a year reach 25 °C, 78 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 361 mm against 12 mm in February — 30 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.0 °C	16 mm	39 %
February	28.9 °C	12 mm	31 %
March	30.7 °C	17 mm	29 %
April	32.0 °C	32 mm	34 %
May	30.6 °C	142 mm	55 %
June	27.3 °C	324 mm	84 %
July	27.0 °C	345 mm	85 %
August	26.9 °C	361 mm	87 %
September	26.1 °C	355 mm	89 %
October	26.5 °C	166 mm	77 %
November	26.8 °C	49 mm	55 %
December	26.8 °C	16 mm	43 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.0 °C	15.0 °C	20.1 °C	30.6 °C	8.7 °C	28	0
February	28.9 °C	15.3 °C	21.2 °C	34.0 °C	10.6 °C	27	9
March	30.7 °C	16.1 °C	22.5 °C	34.7 °C	11.2 °C	31	22
April	32.0 °C	17.3 °C	23.8 °C	36.6 °C	11.2 °C	30	25
May	30.6 °C	18.4 °C	23.6 °C	37.7 °C	14.6 °C	31	18
June	27.3 °C	18.7 °C	22.1 °C	35.5 °C	15.4 °C	26	3
July	27.0 °C	18.2 °C	21.8 °C	30.9 °C	15.3 °C	28	0
August	26.9 °C	18.3 °C	21.7 °C	31.1 °C	15.8 °C	28	0
September	26.1 °C	18.3 °C	21.3 °C	29.5 °C	15.7 °C	25	0
October	26.5 °C	17.9 °C	21.5 °C	30.3 °C	12.1 °C	27	0
November	26.8 °C	16.5 °C	20.9 °C	30.9 °C	9.4 °C	27	0
December	26.8 °C	15.6 °C	20.4 °C	30.2 °C	9.1 °C	28	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	16 mm	2	11 h/day	39 %	64 %	9.1 km/h
February	12 mm	2	12 h/day	31 %	60 %	10 km/h
March	17 mm	3	12 h/day	29 %	56 %	12 km/h
April	32 mm	5	13 h/day	34 %	54 %	12 km/h
May	142 mm	16	13 h/day	55 %	67 %	11 km/h
June	324 mm	26	13 h/day	84 %	83 %	8.9 km/h
July	345 mm	28	13 h/day	85 %	83 %	7.9 km/h
August	361 mm	28	13 h/day	87 %	85 %	7.9 km/h
September	355 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	87 %	7.5 km/h
October	166 mm	20	12 h/day	77 %	81 %	7.4 km/h
November	49 mm	8	11 h/day	55 %	74 %	7.9 km/h
December	16 mm	3	11 h/day	43 %	68 %	8.2 km/h

How Chilpancingo 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
Chilpancingo	32 °C	15 °C	1,834 mm	335
Acapulco de Juárez · Mexico	32 °C	21 °C	1,421 mm	365
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
Tlalpan · Mexico	25 °C	7.0 °C	1,291 mm	49

Where Chilpancingo ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in April	19th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	21st of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	26th of 50	29 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	42nd of 50	27 °C
The driest places in North America in February	46th of 50	12 mm
Places with the best weather in North America in January	50th of 50	90/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Chilpancingo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Chilpancingo?

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

How hot does Chilpancingo get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 78 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 15 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Chilpancingo?

August, averaging 361 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 12 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,834 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 Chilpancingo 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: 17.552°, -99.501° (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.