Tapachula climate

Name: Tapachula
Address: MX

Tapachula is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. September is the wettest month (674 mm) and February the driest (15 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tapachula averages 3,719 mm of rain and 361 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 353,706 · 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 April 32 °C
Coldest month January 19 °C
Driest month February 15 mm
Wettest month September 674 mm
Least cloud February 25 % cloud
Hottest on record April 37 °C
Coldest on record February 15 °C

What to expectTapachula through the year

Tapachula changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 361 days a year reach 25 °C, 138 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 674 mm against 15 mm in February — 44 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.0 °C	18 mm	25 %
February	30.9 °C	15 mm	25 %
March	31.4 °C	43 mm	32 %
April	31.5 °C	114 mm	44 %
May	30.0 °C	400 mm	71 %
June	28.6 °C	550 mm	87 %
July	29.0 °C	477 mm	81 %
August	29.0 °C	558 mm	83 %
September	28.1 °C	674 mm	88 %
October	27.8 °C	602 mm	79 %
November	28.5 °C	223 mm	51 %
December	29.3 °C	43 mm	30 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.0 °C	19.2 °C	24.3 °C	34.8 °C	15.0 °C	31	14
February	30.9 °C	19.6 °C	25.0 °C	35.3 °C	14.9 °C	28	21
March	31.4 °C	20.7 °C	25.8 °C	35.6 °C	15.9 °C	31	26
April	31.5 °C	21.6 °C	26.4 °C	37.0 °C	17.2 °C	30	26
May	30.0 °C	21.9 °C	25.7 °C	35.7 °C	19.1 °C	31	16
June	28.6 °C	21.5 °C	24.8 °C	33.0 °C	19.1 °C	29	5
July	29.0 °C	21.0 °C	24.9 °C	33.2 °C	18.1 °C	31	8
August	29.0 °C	21.1 °C	24.8 °C	32.9 °C	18.6 °C	31	8
September	28.1 °C	21.0 °C	24.2 °C	32.4 °C	18.0 °C	29	3
October	27.8 °C	20.7 °C	24.0 °C	32.7 °C	17.3 °C	30	2
November	28.5 °C	20.1 °C	24.0 °C	33.5 °C	16.5 °C	30	3
December	29.3 °C	19.5 °C	24.1 °C	34.0 °C	15.4 °C	31	7

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	18 mm	5	11 h/day	25 %	68 %	11 km/h
February	15 mm	5	12 h/day	25 %	65 %	12 km/h
March	43 mm	10	12 h/day	32 %	66 %	11 km/h
April	114 mm	17	12 h/day	44 %	70 %	9.9 km/h
May	400 mm	27	13 h/day	71 %	79 %	8.3 km/h
June	550 mm	29	13 h/day	87 %	86 %	7.9 km/h
July	477 mm	30	13 h/day	81 %	84 %	7.8 km/h
August	558 mm	30	13 h/day	83 %	85 %	8.0 km/h
September	674 mm	29	12 h/day	88 %	87 %	7.9 km/h
October	602 mm	30	12 h/day	79 %	87 %	8.0 km/h
November	223 mm	20	11 h/day	51 %	81 %	8.4 km/h
December	43 mm	9	11 h/day	30 %	74 %	9.4 km/h

How Tapachula 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
Tapachula	32 °C	19 °C	3,719 mm	361
Quetzaltenango · Guatemala	20 °C	11 °C	2,999 mm	0
Comitán · Mexico	27 °C	12 °C	1,463 mm	115
Escuintla · Guatemala	32 °C	19 °C	2,452 mm	360

Where Tapachula ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in February	8th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	9th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	11th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in December	14th of 50	29 °C
The warmest places in North America in April	27th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in November	30th of 50	28 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tapachula’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tapachula?

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

How hot does Tapachula get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 138 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tapachula?

September, averaging 674 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is February with 15 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,719 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 Tapachula 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: 14.905°, -92.259° (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.