Tonalá climate

Name: Tonalá
Address: MX

Tonalá is warmest in May, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10 °C. July is the wettest month (163 mm) and April the driest (3.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tonalá averages 660 mm of rain and 213 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 408,759 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January 10 °C
Driest month April 4 mm
Wettest month July 163 mm
Least cloud March 28 % cloud
Hottest on record June 38 °C
Coldest on record December 0.2 °C

What to expectTonalá through the year

Tonalá has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 23 °C in January to 31 °C in May, a swing of 7.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 213 days a year reach 25 °C, 58 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 163 mm against 4 mm in April — 46 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.2 °C	17 mm	39 %
February	25.3 °C	12 mm	32 %
March	28.1 °C	7 mm	28 %
April	30.5 °C	4 mm	35 %
May	31.3 °C	15 mm	35 %
June	28.4 °C	110 mm	61 %
July	25.2 °C	163 mm	75 %
August	25.2 °C	142 mm	74 %
September	24.6 °C	129 mm	76 %
October	24.8 °C	43 mm	54 %
November	24.3 °C	12 mm	35 %
December	23.4 °C	6 mm	40 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	23.2 °C	10.1 °C	16.3 °C	28.1 °C	2.3 °C	5	0
February	25.3 °C	11.3 °C	17.9 °C	32.3 °C	2.6 °C	18	0
March	28.1 °C	13.2 °C	20.2 °C	33.9 °C	2.0 °C	29	6
April	30.5 °C	15.2 °C	22.5 °C	34.7 °C	8.2 °C	29	20
May	31.3 °C	16.8 °C	23.7 °C	36.1 °C	11.1 °C	31	23
June	28.4 °C	17.3 °C	22.1 °C	37.5 °C	14.2 °C	26	9
July	25.2 °C	16.0 °C	19.9 °C	32.2 °C	13.1 °C	17	0
August	25.2 °C	16.0 °C	19.9 °C	30.7 °C	12.8 °C	16	0
September	24.6 °C	15.7 °C	19.5 °C	29.6 °C	10.3 °C	12	0
October	24.8 °C	14.3 °C	19.1 °C	31.0 °C	6.3 °C	14	0
November	24.3 °C	12.1 °C	17.9 °C	30.5 °C	4.1 °C	11	0
December	23.4 °C	10.7 °C	16.8 °C	29.1 °C	0.2 °C	5	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	39 %	51 %	11 km/h
February	12 mm	2	11 h/day	32 %	48 %	12 km/h
March	7 mm	1	12 h/day	28 %	39 %	14 km/h
April	4 mm	1	13 h/day	35 %	35 %	15 km/h
May	15 mm	4	13 h/day	35 %	41 %	15 km/h
June	110 mm	17	13 h/day	61 %	65 %	13 km/h
July	163 mm	23	13 h/day	75 %	77 %	10 km/h
August	142 mm	22	13 h/day	74 %	78 %	10 km/h
September	129 mm	19	12 h/day	76 %	78 %	11 km/h
October	43 mm	8	12 h/day	54 %	69 %	11 km/h
November	12 mm	2	11 h/day	35 %	59 %	11 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	40 %	54 %	10 km/h

How Tonalá 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
Tonalá	31 °C	10 °C	660 mm	213
Tlaquepaque · Mexico	32 °C	11 °C	776 mm	252
Guadalajara · Mexico	32 °C	10 °C	783 mm	272
Zapopan · Mexico	32 °C	9.6 °C	819 mm	272
Zamora de Hidalgo · Mexico	32 °C	9.1 °C	1,105 mm	269
León de los Aldama · Mexico	30 °C	8.3 °C	568 mm	199
Aguascalientes · Mexico	30 °C	7.1 °C	493 mm	188

Where Tonalá ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in North America in December	1st of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in North America in January	2nd of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in North America in November	4th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in the world in December	7th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in the world in January	8th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in North America in February	13th of 50	94/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tonalá’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tonalá?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. March, July, August 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 Tonalá get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 58 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 10 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tonalá?

July, averaging 163 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is April with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 660 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 Tonalá 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: 20.623°, -103.242° (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.