Manzanillo climate

Name: Manzanillo
Address: MX

Manzanillo is warmest in May, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in March, when nights average 20 °C. September is the wettest month (289 mm) and April the driest (0.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Manzanillo averages 1,130 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 159,853 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month March 20 °C
Driest month April 0 mm
Wettest month September 289 mm
Least cloud March 33 % cloud
Hottest on record January 34 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectManzanillo through the year

Manzanillo changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 103 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in January.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 289 mm against 0 mm in April — 598 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Manzanillo is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in April at 25 °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	28.7 °C	22 mm	45 %
February	28.6 °C	14 mm	38 %
March	28.8 °C	6 mm	33 %
April	29.3 °C	under 1 mm	38 %
May	30.2 °C	6 mm	35 %
June	29.8 °C	154 mm	63 %
July	29.8 °C	188 mm	78 %
August	29.6 °C	254 mm	80 %
September	29.0 °C	289 mm	83 %
October	29.2 °C	161 mm	61 %
November	29.4 °C	25 mm	45 %
December	29.0 °C	10 mm	47 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.7 °C	20.4 °C	24.3 °C	34.3 °C	15.1 °C	30	6
February	28.6 °C	20.1 °C	24.2 °C	32.6 °C	15.1 °C	28	4
March	28.8 °C	20.0 °C	24.4 °C	33.2 °C	15.3 °C	31	6
April	29.3 °C	20.7 °C	25.0 °C	33.3 °C	16.4 °C	30	8
May	30.2 °C	22.8 °C	26.4 °C	33.3 °C	17.2 °C	31	17
June	29.8 °C	24.5 °C	26.9 °C	34.1 °C	20.8 °C	30	12
July	29.8 °C	24.8 °C	27.2 °C	34.3 °C	22.0 °C	31	13
August	29.6 °C	24.7 °C	27.1 °C	34.3 °C	22.0 °C	31	12
September	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	33.0 °C	22.0 °C	30	5
October	29.2 °C	24.3 °C	26.6 °C	32.8 °C	18.8 °C	31	6
November	29.4 °C	22.9 °C	25.9 °C	34.0 °C	17.7 °C	30	8
December	29.0 °C	21.3 °C	24.9 °C	33.1 °C	15.3 °C	31	7

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	45 %	73 %	11 km/h	27.3 °C
February	14 mm	1	12 h/day	38 %	73 %	12 km/h	26.2 °C
March	6 mm	0	12 h/day	33 %	71 %	13 km/h	25.4 °C
April	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	38 %	70 %	13 km/h	25.2 °C
May	6 mm	1	13 h/day	35 %	72 %	13 km/h	26.6 °C
June	154 mm	15	13 h/day	63 %	81 %	12 km/h	28.4 °C
July	188 mm	21	13 h/day	78 %	83 %	10 km/h	29.8 °C
August	254 mm	24	13 h/day	80 %	85 %	10 km/h	30.0 °C
September	289 mm	25	12 h/day	83 %	86 %	11 km/h	29.6 °C
October	161 mm	18	12 h/day	61 %	85 %	10 km/h	29.5 °C
November	25 mm	4	11 h/day	45 %	80 %	10 km/h	28.8 °C
December	10 mm	1	11 h/day	47 %	76 %	10 km/h	28.0 °C

How Manzanillo 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
Manzanillo	30 °C	20 °C	1,130 mm	363
Puerto Vallarta · Mexico	32 °C	18 °C	1,404 mm	357
Tlaquepaque · Mexico	32 °C	11 °C	776 mm	252
Guadalajara · Mexico	32 °C	10 °C	783 mm	272
Tonalá · Mexico	31 °C	10 °C	660 mm	213
Zapopan · Mexico	32 °C	9.6 °C	819 mm	272
Zamora de Hidalgo · Mexico	32 °C	9.1 °C	1,105 mm	269

Where Manzanillo ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in the world in April	2nd of 50	99/100
Best beach destinations in the world in March	4th of 50	99/100
The driest places in North America in April	4th of 50	0.5 mm
Best beach destinations in the world in May	9th of 50	96/100
The driest places in North America in March	10th of 50	5.5 mm
Best beach destinations in the world in February	13th of 50	99/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Manzanillo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Manzanillo?

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 Manzanillo get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 103 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in March, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Manzanillo?

September, averaging 289 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is April with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,130 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 Manzanillo 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: 19.117°, -104.342° (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.