Los Mochis climate

Name: Los Mochis
Address: MX

Los Mochis is warmest in July, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 13 °C. September is the wettest month (106 mm) and May the driest (0.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Los Mochis averages 339 mm of rain and 329 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 256,613 · 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 July 35 °C
Coldest month January 13 °C
Driest month May 0 mm
Wettest month September 106 mm
Least cloud June 20 % cloud
Hottest on record August 42 °C
Coldest on record December 4.4 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectLos Mochis through the year

Los Mochis has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 35 °C in July, a swing of 12 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 329 days a year reach 25 °C, 228 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 106 mm against 0 mm in May — 369 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Los Mochis is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in February at 20 °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	25.7 °C	13 mm	39 %
February	26.6 °C	13 mm	40 %
March	28.8 °C	2 mm	35 %
April	31.2 °C	1 mm	34 %
May	33.7 °C	under 1 mm	22 %
June	35.1 °C	4 mm	20 %
July	35.2 °C	52 mm	59 %
August	34.6 °C	94 mm	61 %
September	33.5 °C	106 mm	44 %
October	33.7 °C	27 mm	22 %
November	30.0 °C	16 mm	30 %
December	25.9 °C	12 mm	41 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.7 °C	13.3 °C	18.5 °C	31.9 °C	7.7 °C	19	1
February	26.6 °C	13.6 °C	19.2 °C	34.1 °C	5.5 °C	19	3
March	28.8 °C	14.7 °C	20.9 °C	36.9 °C	9.2 °C	28	11
April	31.2 °C	16.6 °C	23.3 °C	39.2 °C	11.1 °C	30	21
May	33.7 °C	19.5 °C	26.2 °C	39.8 °C	13.7 °C	31	30
June	35.1 °C	24.3 °C	29.3 °C	40.9 °C	16.8 °C	30	30
July	35.2 °C	26.6 °C	30.5 °C	41.9 °C	23.1 °C	31	31
August	34.6 °C	26.6 °C	30.1 °C	42.4 °C	22.8 °C	31	30
September	33.5 °C	25.6 °C	29.0 °C	40.2 °C	20.1 °C	30	28
October	33.7 °C	22.7 °C	27.5 °C	40.5 °C	13.2 °C	31	28
November	30.0 °C	17.8 °C	23.1 °C	38.3 °C	10.5 °C	28	15
December	25.9 °C	14.1 °C	19.1 °C	32.7 °C	4.4 °C	20	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	13 mm	1	11 h/day	39 %	66 %	15 km/h	20.0 °C
February	13 mm	2	11 h/day	40 %	63 %	16 km/h	19.7 °C
March	2 mm	0	12 h/day	35 %	59 %	17 km/h	20.1 °C
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	34 %	55 %	17 km/h	21.7 °C
May	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	22 %	55 %	17 km/h	24.5 °C
June	4 mm	1	14 h/day	20 %	60 %	17 km/h	27.4 °C
July	52 mm	7	14 h/day	59 %	66 %	16 km/h	29.3 °C
August	94 mm	12	13 h/day	61 %	73 %	14 km/h	30.3 °C
September	106 mm	11	12 h/day	44 %	77 %	15 km/h	30.1 °C
October	27 mm	3	12 h/day	22 %	66 %	16 km/h	28.9 °C
November	16 mm	2	11 h/day	30 %	64 %	15 km/h	25.5 °C
December	12 mm	2	11 h/day	41 %	65 %	15 km/h	22.0 °C

How Los Mochis 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
Los Mochis	35 °C	13 °C	339 mm	329
Culiacán · Mexico	36 °C	13 °C	649 mm	351
Ciudad Obregón · Mexico	38 °C	11 °C	337 mm	326
La Paz · Mexico	35 °C	15 °C	225 mm	294
Cabo San Lucas · Mexico	31 °C	18 °C	280 mm	306
Cuauhtémoc · Mexico	29 °C	1.0 °C	426 mm	104
Mazatlán · Mexico	31 °C	16 °C	785 mm	328

Where Los Mochis ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in North America in May	1st of 50	0.3 mm
The warmest places in North America in October	2nd of 50	34 °C
The driest places in North America in March	3rd of 50	1.9 mm
The driest places in North America in April	6th of 50	1.0 mm
The warmest places in North America in November	9th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in September	11th of 50	33 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Los Mochis.

QuestionsCommon questions about Los Mochis’s climate

When is the best time to visit Los Mochis?

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

How hot does Los Mochis get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 228 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °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 Los Mochis?

September, averaging 106 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is May with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 339 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 Los Mochis 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: 25.791°, -108.998° (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.