Mazatlán climate

Name: Mazatlán
Address: MX

Mazatlán is warmest in June, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 16 °C. August is the wettest month (221 mm) and April the driest (0.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mazatlán averages 785 mm of rain and 328 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 381,583 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month February 16 °C
Driest month April 1 mm
Wettest month August 221 mm
Least cloud May 26 % cloud
Hottest on record July 35 °C
Coldest on record February 10 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectMazatlán through the year

Mazatlán has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in February to 31 °C in June, a swing of 7.3 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 328 days a year reach 25 °C, 109 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 221 mm against 1 mm in April — 349 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Mazatlán is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in March at 22 °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	25.3 °C	14 mm	41 %
February	25.7 °C	14 mm	38 %
March	26.5 °C	3 mm	35 %
April	28.1 °C	1 mm	37 %
May	29.9 °C	1 mm	26 %
June	31.0 °C	35 mm	41 %
July	30.7 °C	167 mm	76 %
August	30.2 °C	221 mm	77 %
September	29.7 °C	216 mm	74 %
October	29.6 °C	70 mm	43 %
November	28.0 °C	31 mm	34 %
December	25.8 °C	10 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	25.3 °C	16.3 °C	20.4 °C	29.8 °C	10.8 °C	19	0
February	25.7 °C	16.3 °C	20.7 °C	30.1 °C	10.1 °C	18	0
March	26.5 °C	16.7 °C	21.4 °C	30.9 °C	11.2 °C	27	0
April	28.1 °C	18.1 °C	23.0 °C	31.8 °C	13.4 °C	29	2
May	29.9 °C	20.5 °C	25.3 °C	33.9 °C	15.8 °C	31	16
June	31.0 °C	24.2 °C	27.3 °C	34.1 °C	18.4 °C	30	24
July	30.7 °C	25.2 °C	27.7 °C	34.6 °C	22.4 °C	31	22
August	30.2 °C	25.3 °C	27.6 °C	33.9 °C	21.9 °C	31	18
September	29.7 °C	25.0 °C	27.2 °C	33.6 °C	21.9 °C	30	13
October	29.6 °C	23.8 °C	26.5 °C	32.4 °C	18.3 °C	31	11
November	28.0 °C	20.3 °C	23.9 °C	32.9 °C	14.8 °C	29	3
December	25.8 °C	17.4 °C	21.3 °C	31.9 °C	10.3 °C	21	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	14 mm	1	11 h/day	41 %	76 %	12 km/h	23.3 °C
February	14 mm	1	11 h/day	38 %	74 %	13 km/h	22.5 °C
March	3 mm	0	12 h/day	35 %	72 %	14 km/h	22.2 °C
April	1 mm	0	13 h/day	37 %	71 %	14 km/h	23.2 °C
May	1 mm	0	13 h/day	26 %	72 %	15 km/h	25.6 °C
June	35 mm	4	14 h/day	41 %	75 %	15 km/h	27.8 °C
July	167 mm	16	13 h/day	76 %	81 %	12 km/h	29.3 °C
August	221 mm	21	13 h/day	77 %	85 %	11 km/h	30.0 °C
September	216 mm	21	12 h/day	74 %	87 %	11 km/h	29.9 °C
October	70 mm	7	12 h/day	43 %	84 %	11 km/h	29.6 °C
November	31 mm	2	11 h/day	34 %	79 %	11 km/h	27.4 °C
December	10 mm	1	11 h/day	43 %	77 %	11 km/h	24.7 °C

How Mazatlán 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
Mazatlán	31 °C	16 °C	785 mm	328
Victoria de Durango · Mexico	30 °C	4.1 °C	492 mm	172
Culiacán · Mexico	36 °C	13 °C	649 mm	351
Tepic · Mexico	31 °C	13 °C	1,538 mm	315
Puerto Vallarta · Mexico	32 °C	18 °C	1,404 mm	357
Cabo San Lucas · Mexico	31 °C	18 °C	280 mm	306
Los Mochis · Mexico	35 °C	13 °C	339 mm	329

Where Mazatlán ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in the world in April	4th of 50	98/100
The driest places in North America in April	5th of 50	0.6 mm
The driest places in North America in March	5th of 50	3.0 mm
Best beach destinations in the world in May	7th of 50	97/100
The driest places in North America in May	8th of 50	1.0 mm
Best beach destinations in the world in November	9th of 50	98/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Mazatlán’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mazatlán?

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 April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Mazatlán get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 109 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 16 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Mazatlán?

August, averaging 221 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is April with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 785 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 Mazatlán 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: 23.222°, -106.419° (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.