Puerto Vallarta climate

Name: Puerto Vallarta
Address: MX

Puerto Vallarta is warmest in May, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 18 °C. August is the wettest month (321 mm) and April the driest (3.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Puerto Vallarta averages 1,404 mm of rain and 357 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 224,166 · 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 February 18 °C
Driest month April 3 mm
Wettest month August 321 mm
Least cloud March 33 % cloud
Hottest on record June 39 °C
Coldest on record March 13 °C
Warmest sea August 30 °C

What to expectPuerto Vallarta through the year

Puerto Vallarta has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in February to 32 °C in May, a swing of 4.7 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 357 days a year reach 25 °C, 191 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 321 mm against 3 mm in April — 93 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Puerto Vallarta is warmest in August at 30 °C and coldest in March at 24 °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	27.9 °C	31 mm	44 %
February	28.3 °C	25 mm	38 %
March	29.1 °C	10 mm	33 %
April	30.4 °C	3 mm	38 %
May	31.8 °C	16 mm	35 %
June	31.0 °C	194 mm	64 %
July	30.9 °C	279 mm	81 %
August	30.9 °C	321 mm	82 %
September	30.4 °C	320 mm	84 %
October	30.4 °C	148 mm	59 %
November	29.7 °C	34 mm	42 %
December	28.3 °C	23 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	27.9 °C	18.4 °C	22.6 °C	34.3 °C	13.1 °C	28	5
February	28.3 °C	18.2 °C	22.7 °C	34.2 °C	13.7 °C	26	7
March	29.1 °C	18.2 °C	23.2 °C	35.1 °C	12.6 °C	30	10
April	30.4 °C	19.3 °C	24.6 °C	35.8 °C	14.6 °C	30	18
May	31.8 °C	21.4 °C	26.3 °C	37.2 °C	16.8 °C	31	25
June	31.0 °C	24.1 °C	27.0 °C	38.7 °C	19.1 °C	30	22
July	30.9 °C	24.5 °C	27.3 °C	37.6 °C	21.8 °C	31	23
August	30.9 °C	24.5 °C	27.3 °C	37.6 °C	21.2 °C	31	24
September	30.4 °C	24.3 °C	26.9 °C	35.1 °C	20.7 °C	30	19
October	30.4 °C	23.6 °C	26.6 °C	34.8 °C	18.6 °C	31	19
November	29.7 °C	21.4 °C	25.1 °C	35.0 °C	16.9 °C	30	12
December	28.3 °C	19.4 °C	23.3 °C	33.9 °C	14.2 °C	29	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	31 mm	3	11 h/day	44 %	81 %	8.9 km/h	25.2 °C
February	25 mm	2	11 h/day	38 %	79 %	10 km/h	24.4 °C
March	10 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	76 %	11 km/h	24.0 °C
April	3 mm	1	13 h/day	38 %	74 %	12 km/h	24.5 °C
May	16 mm	3	13 h/day	35 %	75 %	12 km/h	26.3 °C
June	194 mm	18	13 h/day	64 %	85 %	10 km/h	28.0 °C
July	279 mm	28	13 h/day	81 %	88 %	8.2 km/h	29.7 °C
August	321 mm	29	13 h/day	82 %	89 %	8.1 km/h	30.1 °C
September	320 mm	28	12 h/day	84 %	90 %	8.2 km/h	29.8 °C
October	148 mm	19	12 h/day	59 %	88 %	8.4 km/h	29.7 °C
November	34 mm	5	11 h/day	42 %	85 %	8.5 km/h	28.1 °C
December	23 mm	3	11 h/day	47 %	83 %	8.6 km/h	26.1 °C

How Puerto Vallarta 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
Puerto Vallarta	32 °C	18 °C	1,404 mm	357
Tepic · Mexico	31 °C	13 °C	1,538 mm	315
Manzanillo · Mexico	30 °C	20 °C	1,130 mm	363
Zapopan · Mexico	32 °C	9.6 °C	819 mm	272
Guadalajara · Mexico	32 °C	10 °C	783 mm	272
Tlaquepaque · Mexico	32 °C	11 °C	776 mm	252
Tonalá · Mexico	31 °C	10 °C	660 mm	213

Where Puerto Vallarta ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in the world in January	2nd of 50	100/100
Best beach destinations in the world in December	7th of 50	100/100
Best beach destinations in the world in April	12th of 50	95/100
Best beach destinations in the world in March	13th of 50	98/100
Best beach destinations in the world in February	14th of 50	99/100
The driest places in North America in April	14th of 50	3.4 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Puerto Vallarta.

QuestionsCommon questions about Puerto Vallarta’s climate

When is the best time to visit Puerto Vallarta?

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 Puerto Vallarta get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 191 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Puerto Vallarta?

August, averaging 321 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is April with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,404 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 Puerto Vallarta 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: 20.617°, -105.230° (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.