Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas climate

Name: Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas
Address: MX

Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas is warmest in May, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in March, when nights average 21 °C. September is the wettest month (336 mm) and April the driest (0.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas averages 1,240 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 196,003 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month March 21 °C
Driest month April 0 mm
Wettest month September 336 mm
Least cloud March 28 % cloud
Hottest on record November 37 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectCiudad Lázaro Cárdenas through the year

Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 184 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in November.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 336 mm against 0 mm in April — 706 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in March at 27 °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	29.7 °C	22 mm	37 %
February	29.7 °C	7 mm	29 %
March	29.8 °C	8 mm	28 %
April	30.5 °C	under 1 mm	35 %
May	31.4 °C	12 mm	40 %
June	30.7 °C	167 mm	70 %
July	30.7 °C	187 mm	77 %
August	30.3 °C	258 mm	79 %
September	29.2 °C	336 mm	84 %
October	29.4 °C	194 mm	64 %
November	29.9 °C	37 mm	43 %
December	29.7 °C	11 mm	38 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.7 °C	21.3 °C	25.0 °C	34.9 °C	15.0 °C	31	12
February	29.7 °C	21.0 °C	25.0 °C	34.0 °C	15.1 °C	28	11
March	29.8 °C	20.8 °C	25.0 °C	34.3 °C	15.9 °C	31	13
April	30.5 °C	21.5 °C	25.7 °C	34.2 °C	17.1 °C	30	19
May	31.4 °C	23.5 °C	27.1 °C	35.6 °C	17.8 °C	31	26
June	30.7 °C	24.8 °C	27.4 °C	36.9 °C	20.7 °C	30	21
July	30.7 °C	24.9 °C	27.5 °C	36.4 °C	22.3 °C	31	22
August	30.3 °C	24.9 °C	27.3 °C	34.7 °C	22.5 °C	31	18
September	29.2 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	33.2 °C	22.2 °C	30	9
October	29.4 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	33.9 °C	19.3 °C	31	9
November	29.9 °C	23.6 °C	26.3 °C	37.2 °C	18.3 °C	30	13
December	29.7 °C	22.1 °C	25.4 °C	34.4 °C	16.3 °C	31	12

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	22 mm	1	11 h/day	37 %	74 %	16 km/h	28.1 °C
February	7 mm	1	12 h/day	29 %	73 %	17 km/h	27.4 °C
March	8 mm	0	12 h/day	28 %	72 %	18 km/h	26.9 °C
April	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	35 %	70 %	18 km/h	26.9 °C
May	12 mm	2	13 h/day	40 %	71 %	19 km/h	27.9 °C
June	167 mm	15	13 h/day	70 %	79 %	18 km/h	29.3 °C
July	187 mm	18	13 h/day	77 %	82 %	16 km/h	30.1 °C
August	258 mm	21	13 h/day	79 %	84 %	16 km/h	30.3 °C
September	336 mm	23	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	15 km/h	29.8 °C
October	194 mm	20	12 h/day	64 %	86 %	14 km/h	29.5 °C
November	37 mm	5	11 h/day	43 %	82 %	15 km/h	29.2 °C
December	11 mm	2	11 h/day	38 %	77 %	15 km/h	28.7 °C

How Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas 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
Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas	31 °C	21 °C	1,240 mm	364
Uruapan · Mexico	28 °C	10.0 °C	1,719 mm	163
Morelia · Mexico	28 °C	8.7 °C	696 mm	112
Zamora de Hidalgo · Mexico	32 °C	9.1 °C	1,105 mm	269
Manzanillo · Mexico	30 °C	20 °C	1,130 mm	363
Acapulco de Juárez · Mexico	32 °C	21 °C	1,421 mm	365

Where Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in April	3rd of 50	0.5 mm
The warmest places in North America in December	9th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	12th of 50	30 °C
Best beach destinations in the world in April	13th of 50	95/100
The warmest places in North America in November	13th of 50	30 °C
The driest places in North America in February	18th of 50	7.1 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas.

QuestionsCommon questions about Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, March 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 Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 184 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 21 °C in March, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas?

September, averaging 336 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is April with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,240 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 Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas 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: 17.963°, -102.199° (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.