Climate and average weather in Acatzingo

In Acatzingo, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Acatzingo typically varies from 6°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 28°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Acatzingo for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Apr
25°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jun
181 mm
Driest
Dec
6 mm
Rain / yr
906 mm
122 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,148 m
19.0°N
Clearest
Feb
29% cloud

Acatzingo is municipal seat of Acatzingo, State of Puebla, Mexico.

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

Acatzingo 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 early January to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Acatzingo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 25°C and low of 11°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan216
Feb227
Mar249
Apr2511
May2412
Jun2312
Jul2311
Aug2311
Sep2212
Oct2211
Nov228
Dec216

Average hourly temperature in Acatzingo

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 April afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Acatzingo 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
Jan21° / 102.1118.1
Feb22° / 91.911.48.5
Mar24° / 235.211.98.3
Apr25° / 11°5110.112.47.1
May24° / 12°10717.612.95.9
Jun23° / 12°18118.613.15.4
Jul23° / 11°11915.5135.9
Aug23° / 11°1381712.65.7
Sep22° / 12°16817.812.15.3
Oct22° / 11°741111.66.6
Nov22° / 21411.17.9
Dec21° / 61.310.98.4

Chance of rain

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

Acatzingo gets about 906 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 6.1 months, from around Apr 15 to Oct 16, peaking in June at about 63% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 10.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 181 mm over about 19 wet days; December is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 26 · 63%Dec 10 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb72
Mar165
Apr3510
May5618
Jun6119
Jul5216
Aug5417
Sep5818
Oct3511
Nov144
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Acatzingo collects about 906 mm of rain across 122 wet days — roughly 75 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 181 mm, while December is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec109235110718111913816874216
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan102
Feb92
Mar235
Apr5110
May10718
Jun18119
Jul11916
Aug13817
Sep16818
Oct7411
Nov214
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Acatzingo, 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 6.6 months, ending around May 13. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 14 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 24. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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 26 · 86%Sep 5 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb8317
Mar8317
Apr7426
May5743
Jun3664
Jul3862
Aug3466
Sep2674
Oct5050
Nov7228
Dec7921

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 1, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.07:116:10
Feb11.47:056:26
Mar11.96:456:37
Apr12.46:186:44
May12.96:016:54
Jun13.15:577:05
Jul13.06:067:08
Aug12.66:166:55
Sep12.16:226:29
Oct11.66:296:03
Nov11.16:445:49
Dec10.97:015:53

Sunny days

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

Acatzingo averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Nov 1 to Apr 24. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 3 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2322 daysSep 93 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr14Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Acatzingo, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% 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 (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr991
May919
Jun7624
Jul9010
Aug8614
Sep7822
Oct8911
Nov991
Dec1000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Acatzingo is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 4 to Apr 21. The windiest month is March, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 22 to Oct 3, with June the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 7 · 9 km/hJun 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Acatzingo

In seasonPeak

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

Acatzingo's monsoon runs May–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 Acatzingo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Acatzingo is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Acatzingo for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 8.8

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
Jan8.1ideal
Feb8.5ideal
Mar8.3ideal
Apr7.1good
May5.9good
Jun5.4fair
Jul5.8good
Aug5.7good
Sep5.3fair
Oct6.6good
Nov7.9ideal
Dec8.4ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Acatzingo for hot-weather activities run from early February to late April and again from mid November to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 26 · 6.9

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 Acatzingo, 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.

Acatzingo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Acatzingo sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 11°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Acatzingo 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 Acatzingo peaks around April 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeVery highApr 11UV 15Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May9Very high
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Acatzingo

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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)
Jan6.54.5
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr8.57
May85.5
Jun97
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Acatzingo 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 Acatzingo is worst in May — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.9× the cleanest month (January, 20 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateMay 1737 µg/m³Jan 2220 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr29Moderate
May38Poor
Jun30Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov22Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Acatzingo 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
Dec990

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. Acatzingo banks about 2,276 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan102
Feb131
Mar194
Apr230
May249
Jun231
Jul221
Aug230
Sep215
Oct202
Nov154
Dec116

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.

Acatzingo receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Feb 15 to Aug 25. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 157.1 kWhDec 195.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar6.8Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Acatzingo?

Acatzingo sits at 19.0°N, 97.8°W, 2,148 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Los Reyes de Juárez, 4.0 km away.

Topography around Acatzingo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Acatzingo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 138 m around an average of 2,148 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 954 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,725 m.

The land around Acatzingo is covered by cropland (37%), grassland (25%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, cropland (42%) within 16 km, and shrubs (30%), cropland (25%) and trees (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
138 m
16 km
954 m
80 km
4,725 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Los Reyes de Juárez 4.0 km · Tecamachalco 12 km · Tepeaca 12 km · Palmarito Tochapan 18 km · San Salvador El Seco 22 km · Tepatlaxco de Hidalgo 23 km · Acajete 23 km · Amozoc de Mota 28 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 Acatzingo (18.982°, -97.7836°, elevation 2,148 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).