Culiacán climate

Name: Culiacán
Address: MX

Culiacán is warmest in June, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. August is the wettest month (182 mm) and May the driest (1.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Culiacán averages 649 mm of rain and 351 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 808,416 · 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 June 36 °C
Coldest month January 13 °C
Driest month May 1 mm
Wettest month August 182 mm
Least cloud May 24 % cloud
Hottest on record June 44 °C
Coldest on record February 4.3 °C

What to expectCuliacán through the year

Culiacán has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in January to 36 °C in June, a swing of 9.9 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 351 days a year reach 25 °C, 266 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 182 mm against 1 mm in May — 155 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.0 °C	14 mm	41 %
February	28.9 °C	15 mm	41 %
March	31.0 °C	3 mm	37 %
April	33.3 °C	2 mm	37 %
May	35.5 °C	1 mm	24 %
June	36.1 °C	19 mm	31 %
July	34.0 °C	135 mm	70 %
August	32.7 °C	182 mm	71 %
September	31.9 °C	178 mm	62 %
October	32.8 °C	45 mm	30 %
November	31.1 °C	38 mm	31 %
December	28.0 °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	28.0 °C	12.6 °C	19.5 °C	35.6 °C	5.1 °C	26	8
February	28.9 °C	13.2 °C	20.4 °C	35.5 °C	4.3 °C	25	11
March	31.0 °C	14.5 °C	22.1 °C	38.6 °C	7.5 °C	30	21
April	33.3 °C	16.6 °C	24.4 °C	39.2 °C	9.0 °C	30	28
May	35.5 °C	19.5 °C	27.1 °C	42.1 °C	14.0 °C	31	31
June	36.1 °C	24.1 °C	29.4 °C	44.0 °C	16.8 °C	30	30
July	34.0 °C	25.1 °C	28.8 °C	41.3 °C	22.1 °C	31	30
August	32.7 °C	25.0 °C	28.1 °C	39.5 °C	22.2 °C	31	29
September	31.9 °C	24.5 °C	27.5 °C	38.5 °C	19.7 °C	30	26
October	32.8 °C	21.9 °C	26.7 °C	41.0 °C	14.9 °C	31	28
November	31.1 °C	17.1 °C	23.5 °C	39.2 °C	9.5 °C	29	20
December	28.0 °C	13.5 °C	20.0 °C	35.0 °C	6.0 °C	26	7

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	14 mm	2	11 h/day	41 %	64 %	11 km/h
February	15 mm	2	11 h/day	41 %	62 %	13 km/h
March	3 mm	1	12 h/day	37 %	58 %	14 km/h
April	2 mm	0	13 h/day	37 %	53 %	15 km/h
May	1 mm	0	13 h/day	24 %	53 %	15 km/h
June	19 mm	3	14 h/day	31 %	61 %	15 km/h
July	135 mm	16	14 h/day	70 %	75 %	12 km/h
August	182 mm	20	13 h/day	71 %	83 %	11 km/h
September	178 mm	19	12 h/day	62 %	85 %	11 km/h
October	45 mm	5	12 h/day	30 %	75 %	11 km/h
November	38 mm	2	11 h/day	31 %	66 %	11 km/h
December	16 mm	2	11 h/day	43 %	66 %	11 km/h

How Culiacán 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
Culiacán	36 °C	13 °C	649 mm	351
Los Mochis · Mexico	35 °C	13 °C	339 mm	329
Mazatlán · Mexico	31 °C	16 °C	785 mm	328
Victoria de Durango · Mexico	30 °C	4.1 °C	492 mm	172
La Paz · Mexico	35 °C	15 °C	225 mm	294
Cabo San Lucas · Mexico	31 °C	18 °C	280 mm	306
Ciudad Obregón · Mexico	38 °C	11 °C	337 mm	326

Where Culiacán ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in November	2nd of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in May	4th of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in North America in October	4th of 50	33 °C
The driest places in North America in March	6th of 50	3.1 mm
The warmest places in North America year-round	7th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in April	8th of 50	33 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Culiacán’s climate

When is the best time to visit Culiacán?

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, June is the warmest month and May the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Culiacán get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 266 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 13 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Culiacán?

August, averaging 182 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is May with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 649 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 Culiacán 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: 24.802°, -107.394° (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.