Uruapan climate

Name: Uruapan
Address: MX

Uruapan is warmest in April, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 10.0 °C. August is the wettest month (319 mm) and December the driest (25 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Uruapan averages 1,719 mm of rain and 163 days above 25 °C.

Mexico · population 299,523 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month January 10.0 °C
Driest month December 25 mm
Wettest month August 319 mm
Least cloud March 28 % cloud
Hottest on record May 34 °C
Coldest on record December 2.1 °C

What to expectUruapan through the year

Uruapan has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 23 °C in January to 28 °C in April, a swing of 5.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 163 days a year reach 25 °C, 13 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 319 mm against 25 mm in December — 13 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.1 °C	40 mm	39 %
February	24.6 °C	37 mm	31 %
March	26.6 °C	35 mm	28 %
April	28.4 °C	29 mm	37 %
May	28.2 °C	130 mm	48 %
June	25.2 °C	272 mm	77 %
July	24.3 °C	319 mm	84 %
August	24.4 °C	319 mm	84 %
September	23.9 °C	298 mm	85 %
October	24.1 °C	159 mm	66 %
November	24.0 °C	55 mm	44 %
December	23.4 °C	25 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	23.1 °C	10.0 °C	16.1 °C	27.9 °C	2.2 °C	5	0
February	24.6 °C	10.4 °C	17.3 °C	30.4 °C	4.1 °C	14	0
March	26.6 °C	11.2 °C	18.8 °C	31.7 °C	5.3 °C	25	1
April	28.4 °C	12.9 °C	20.7 °C	33.1 °C	6.1 °C	29	5
May	28.2 °C	14.5 °C	21.2 °C	34.3 °C	7.3 °C	28	6
June	25.2 °C	15.8 °C	20.1 °C	32.3 °C	11.0 °C	15	1
July	24.3 °C	15.2 °C	19.3 °C	29.0 °C	11.2 °C	9	0
August	24.4 °C	15.2 °C	19.4 °C	28.6 °C	10.7 °C	10	0
September	23.9 °C	15.1 °C	19.0 °C	27.4 °C	9.9 °C	5	0
October	24.1 °C	14.1 °C	18.7 °C	28.2 °C	7.6 °C	8	0
November	24.0 °C	12.1 °C	17.7 °C	27.5 °C	4.1 °C	8	0
December	23.4 °C	10.7 °C	16.6 °C	27.7 °C	2.1 °C	5	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	6	11 h/day	39 %	63 %	11 km/h
February	37 mm	5	12 h/day	31 %	59 %	11 km/h
March	35 mm	5	12 h/day	28 %	53 %	13 km/h
April	29 mm	6	13 h/day	37 %	49 %	13 km/h
May	130 mm	16	13 h/day	48 %	61 %	11 km/h
June	272 mm	26	13 h/day	77 %	81 %	8.7 km/h
July	319 mm	30	13 h/day	84 %	84 %	8.1 km/h
August	319 mm	29	13 h/day	84 %	84 %	8.0 km/h
September	298 mm	27	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	8.4 km/h
October	159 mm	19	12 h/day	66 %	81 %	8.6 km/h
November	55 mm	8	11 h/day	44 %	73 %	9.1 km/h
December	25 mm	5	11 h/day	40 %	67 %	9.9 km/h

How Uruapan 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
Uruapan	28 °C	10.0 °C	1,719 mm	163
Zamora de Hidalgo · Mexico	32 °C	9.1 °C	1,105 mm	269
Morelia · Mexico	28 °C	8.7 °C	696 mm	112
Salamanca · Mexico	32 °C	8.8 °C	685 mm	264
Irapuato · Mexico	31 °C	8.6 °C	646 mm	256
Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas · Mexico	31 °C	21 °C	1,240 mm	364

Where Uruapan ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in North America in December	11th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in North America in January	13th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in North America in February	15th of 50	94/100
Places with the best weather in North America in March	24th of 50	91/100
The coolest places in North America in August	35th of 50	24 °C
The coolest places in North America in July	35th of 50	24 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Uruapan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Uruapan?

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

How hot does Uruapan get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 13 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 10.0 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Uruapan?

August, averaging 319 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is December with 25 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,719 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 Uruapan 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: 19.417°, -102.058° (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.