Climate and average weather in Acámbaro

In Acámbaro, the summers are hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late October to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Acámbaro typically varies from 6°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Acámbaro for warm-weather activities is from late October to mid April.

Hottest
May
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
279 mm
Driest
Dec
9 mm
Rain / yr
1140 mm
129 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,875 m
20.0°N
Clearest
Feb
35% cloud

Acámbaro is municipal seat of Acámbaro, State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

Founded
1526

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Acámbaro weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Acámbaro, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Acámbaro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 28°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in March.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan226
Feb248
Mar269
Apr2811
May2813
Jun2614
Jul2414
Aug2414
Sep2413
Oct2412
Nov239
Dec227

Average hourly temperature in Acámbaro

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on May afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Acámbaro weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan22° / 183.210.98.0
Feb24° / 172.811.38.5
Mar26° / 16311.98.2
Apr28° / 11°163.912.47.1
May28° / 13°6410.512.95.9
Jun26° / 14°19418.613.25.1
Jul24° / 14°27925.213.14.5
Aug24° / 14°23223.312.74.7
Sep24° / 13°19620.312.15.2
Oct24° / 12°7711.511.56.7
Nov23° / 244.711.18.0
Dec22° / 9210.88.3

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Acámbaro gets about 1140 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.0 months, from around May 20 to Oct 19, peaking in July at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 7.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 279 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 5 · 82%Dec 7 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb103
Mar103
Apr144
May3311
Jun6319
Jul7925
Aug7623
Sep6620
Oct3812
Nov165
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Acámbaro collects about 1140 mm of rain across 129 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 279 mm, while December is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec181716166419427923219677249
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan183
Feb173
Mar163
Apr164
May6411
Jun19419
Jul27925
Aug23223
Sep19620
Oct7712
Nov245
Dec92

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Acámbaro, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around June 3. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 4 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around October 24. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 24 · 79%Jul 3 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb7525
Mar7822
Apr7228
May6535
Jun3862
Jul2377
Aug2575
Sep2773
Oct4753
Nov7228
Dec7030

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 5, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.97:256:19
Feb11.37:186:37
Mar11.96:576:48
Apr12.46:296:57
May12.96:117:08
Jun13.26:077:19
Jul13.16:157:22
Aug12.76:267:08
Sep12.16:346:41
Oct11.56:426:14
Nov11.16:575:59
Dec10.87:156:03

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Acámbaro averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.1 months, from around Oct 25 to May 27. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 88% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2220 daysAug 242 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr15Bright
May12Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec16Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Acámbaro, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May87130
Jun40574
Jul20782
Aug22763
Sep30664
Oct65351
Nov9460
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Acámbaro is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 1 · 7 km/hJul 11 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Acámbaro

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Acámbaro's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Acámbaro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Acámbaro throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late October, Acámbaro is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Acámbaro for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late April, with a peak score in the third week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 19 · 8.7

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan8.0ideal
Feb8.4ideal
Mar8.2ideal
Apr7.1good
May5.9good
Jun5.1fair
Jul4.5fair
Aug4.7fair
Sep5.2fair
Oct6.7good
Nov8.0ideal
Dec8.2ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Acámbaro for hot-weather activities is from early February to late May, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 9 · 8.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Acámbaro, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around May (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 22°C), pack a warm layer and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Acámbaro sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Acámbaro by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Acámbaro peaks around June 14 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 7 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highJun 14UV 14Dec 15UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Acámbaro

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun97
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Acámbaro by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Acámbaro is worst in May — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1323 µg/m³Oct 1516 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan22Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Acámbaro is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Acámbaro banks about 2,815 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan128
Feb161
Mar233
Apr286
May333
Jun307
Jul279
Aug276
Sep260
Oct237
Nov177
Dec139

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Acámbaro receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Feb 14 to Jun 23. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 207.4 kWhDec 194.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.8Intense
Apr7.4Intense
May7.2Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Acámbaro?

Acámbaro sits at 20.0°N, 100.7°W, 1,875 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Zinapécuaro de Figueroa, 22 km away.

Topography around Acámbaro

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Acámbaro.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Acámbaro has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 302 m around an average of 1,892 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 970 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,938 m.

The land around Acámbaro is covered by cropland (34%), artificial surfaces (29%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, cropland (35%), grassland (21%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and trees (33%), cropland (26%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
302 m
16 km
970 m
80 km
2,938 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Zinapécuaro de Figueroa 22 km · Salvatierra 26 km · Maravatío de Ocampo 33 km · Ciudad Hidalgo 42 km · Yuriria 47 km · Apaseo el Alto 48 km · Uriangato 49 km · Moroleón 50 km

Mexico travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 127 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 54% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,889
2025
Happiness
7.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
43%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 440
Religion
Catholic 78%no religion 11%other Evangelical Churches 8%Jehovah Witness 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Acámbaro (20.0325°, -100.7243°, elevation 1,875 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).