Guadalajara climate

Name: Guadalajara
Address: MX

Guadalajara is warmest in May, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10 °C. July is the wettest month (200 mm) and April the driest (4.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Guadalajara averages 783 mm of rain, 272 days above 25 °C and 0 days below freezing.

Mexico · population 1,385,629 · 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 January 10 °C
Driest month April 4 mm
Wettest month July 200 mm
Least cloud March 29 % cloud
Hottest on record June 38 °C
Coldest on record December -0.5 °C

What to expectGuadalajara through the year

Guadalajara has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 24 °C in January to 32 °C in May, a swing of 7.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 272 days a year reach 25 °C, 75 of them reach 30 °C, 0 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 200 mm against 4 mm in April — 47 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.1 °C	17 mm	39 %
February	26.3 °C	13 mm	32 %
March	29.0 °C	7 mm	29 %
April	31.4 °C	4 mm	36 %
May	32.4 °C	16 mm	35 %
June	29.5 °C	129 mm	61 %
July	26.2 °C	200 mm	74 %
August	26.2 °C	174 mm	73 %
September	25.6 °C	150 mm	75 %
October	25.8 °C	52 mm	52 %
November	25.3 °C	13 mm	34 %
December	24.4 °C	7 mm	39 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	24.1 °C	10.3 °C	17.0 °C	28.8 °C	1.7 °C	11	0
February	26.3 °C	11.6 °C	18.5 °C	33.3 °C	2.5 °C	21	1
March	29.0 °C	13.4 °C	20.8 °C	35.0 °C	2.5 °C	29	10
April	31.4 °C	15.5 °C	23.1 °C	35.5 °C	8.1 °C	30	24
May	32.4 °C	17.2 °C	24.4 °C	37.1 °C	10.7 °C	31	27
June	29.5 °C	18.0 °C	22.9 °C	37.7 °C	14.8 °C	28	12
July	26.2 °C	16.8 °C	20.7 °C	31.7 °C	13.8 °C	25	0
August	26.2 °C	16.8 °C	20.7 °C	31.7 °C	13.2 °C	25	0
September	25.6 °C	16.4 °C	20.4 °C	30.3 °C	10.3 °C	21	0
October	25.8 °C	14.8 °C	19.9 °C	31.5 °C	6.6 °C	21	0
November	25.3 °C	12.5 °C	18.7 °C	30.6 °C	3.8 °C	18	0
December	24.4 °C	10.9 °C	17.5 °C	29.4 °C	-0.5 °C	12	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	39 %	49 %	12 km/h
February	13 mm	2	11 h/day	32 %	46 %	13 km/h
March	7 mm	1	12 h/day	29 %	38 %	15 km/h
April	4 mm	1	13 h/day	36 %	35 %	16 km/h
May	16 mm	4	13 h/day	35 %	41 %	16 km/h
June	129 mm	17	13 h/day	61 %	65 %	14 km/h
July	200 mm	24	13 h/day	74 %	78 %	11 km/h
August	174 mm	23	13 h/day	73 %	78 %	11 km/h
September	150 mm	20	12 h/day	75 %	78 %	11 km/h
October	52 mm	9	12 h/day	52 %	69 %	11 km/h
November	13 mm	2	11 h/day	34 %	57 %	11 km/h
December	7 mm	1	11 h/day	39 %	51 %	11 km/h

How Guadalajara 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
Guadalajara	32 °C	10 °C	783 mm	272
Zapopan · Mexico	32 °C	9.6 °C	819 mm	272
Tlaquepaque · Mexico	32 °C	11 °C	776 mm	252
Tonalá · Mexico	31 °C	10 °C	660 mm	213
Zamora de Hidalgo · Mexico	32 °C	9.1 °C	1,105 mm	269
Aguascalientes · Mexico	30 °C	7.1 °C	493 mm	188

Where Guadalajara ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in April	18th of 50	4.3 mm
The warmest places in North America in May	27th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in April	29th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	45th of 50	29 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Guadalajara’s climate

When is the best time to visit Guadalajara?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, September, October 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 Guadalajara get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 75 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 10 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 0 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Guadalajara?

July, averaging 200 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is April with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 783 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 Guadalajara 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: 20.677°, -103.347° (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.