Climate and average weather in Campeche

In Campeche, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Campeche typically varies from 20°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 37°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
34°
Coldest
Jan
20°
Wettest
Sep
174 mm
Driest
Mar
10 mm
Rain / yr
824 mm
122 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
19 m
19.8°N
Clearest
Mar
32% cloud

Campeche is capital city of the Mexican state of Campeche.

Founded
1540

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

Campeche 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 early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Campeche stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 20°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2820
Feb3021
Mar3222
Apr3424
May3425
Jun3325
Jul3325
Aug3325
Sep3225
Oct3124
Nov2922
Dec2921

How hot and cold Campeche really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Campeche feels like about 40°C (around June 9). About 264 days a year carry some heat stress, and 121 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29282020
Feb31302121
Mar33322222
Apr37342424
May39342525
Jun40332525
Jul39332525
Aug40332525
Sep39322525
Oct36312424
Nov32292222
Dec30292121

Average hourly temperature in Campeche

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 20°C.

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

Campeche 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
Jan28° / 20°163.810.97.0
Feb30° / 21°122.711.36.2
Mar32° / 22°102.611.95.2
Apr34° / 24°16412.43.9
May34° / 25°508.312.93.2
Jun33° / 25°15117.613.22.7
Jul33° / 25°10116.113.12.9
Aug33° / 25°12618.712.72.8
Sep32° / 25°17422.112.12.8
Oct31° / 24°10814.911.54.1
Nov29° / 22°38711.15.8
Dec29° / 21°223.810.86.8

Chance of rain

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

Campeche gets about 824 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 5.3 months, from around May 22 to Oct 30, peaking in September at about 73% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 25.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 174 mm over about 22 wet days; March is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 10 · 73%Feb 25 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb103
Mar93
Apr134
May288
Jun5718
Jul5316
Aug6019
Sep7222
Oct5015
Nov237
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Campeche collects about 824 mm of rain across 122 wet days — roughly 69 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 174 mm, while March is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 55% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec16121016501511011261741083822
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan164
Feb123
Mar103
Apr164
May508
Jun15118
Jul10116
Aug12619
Sep17422
Oct10815
Nov387
Dec224

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Campeche, 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 November 2 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 25. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 26 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around November 1. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 18 · 85%Jun 26 · 39%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7327
Feb8119
Mar8317
Apr8416
May7030
Jun4555
Jul5050
Aug4852
Sep4060
Oct5248
Nov7030
Dec7228

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 7, 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)
Jan10.96:445:39
Feb11.36:375:56
Mar11.96:166:08
Apr12.45:496:16
May12.95:306:26
Jun13.25:276:38
Jul13.15:356:40
Aug12.75:466:27
Sep12.15:536:00
Oct11.56:015:33
Nov11.16:165:19
Dec10.86:345:22

Sunny days

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

Campeche averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.6 months, from around Nov 7 to May 26. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 5 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 2621 daysSep 115 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr20Bright
May16Bright
Jun8Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov14Mixed
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 Campeche, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.2 months, from around March 28 to December 2. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 3 to March 27, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 15% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 16%May 5 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan2122147170
Feb1111853170
Mar161553240
Apr02638494
May001157014
Jun00015841
Jul00006832
Aug00005050
Sep00002971
Oct002104641
Nov021231487
Dec181842310

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 Campeche is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Jan 1 to Jun 6. The windiest month is April, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 29 to Dec 31, with September the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 6 · 14 km/hSep 19 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Campeche

In seasonPeak

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

Campeche sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Campeche's rainy season runs June–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Atlantic hurricane
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Campeche

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Campeche 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 Campeche for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 14 · 7.1

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
Jan7.0good
Feb6.2good
Mar5.2fair
Apr3.9fair
May3.2poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.8poor
Oct4.1fair
Nov5.8good
Dec6.8good

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 Campeche for hot-weather activities is from late October to early May, with a peak score in the third week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 17 · 8.4

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 Campeche, 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.

Campeche packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Campeche sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 8 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Campeche

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in August at about 30°C and coldest in January near 24°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan24Refreshing
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr27Warm
May29Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov27Warm
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Campeche 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 Campeche peaks around April 12 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighApr 12UV 12Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov7Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Campeche

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan63
Feb75
Mar7.56
Apr86
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct75
Nov63.5
Dec62

Air quality in Campeche 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 Campeche is worst in April — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.9× the cleanest month (November, 7 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 2231 µg/m³Nov 237 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb9Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May29Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct9Good
Nov7Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Campeche 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. Campeche banks about 6,316 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan437
Feb427
Mar520
Apr559
May606
Jun580
Jul593
Aug588
Sep551
Oct535
Nov468
Dec452

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.

Campeche receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 1 to Sep 16. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 39% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 297.0 kWhDec 224.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Campeche?

Campeche sits at 19.8°N, 90.5°W, 19 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Champotón, 59 km away.

Topography around Campeche

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Campeche has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 72 m around an average of 18 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 115 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 219 m.

The land around Campeche is covered by artificial surfaces (65%) within 3 km, trees (47%) and water (38%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and water (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
72 m
16 km
115 m
80 km
219 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Champotón 59 km · Ticul 120 km · Oxkutzkab 126 km · Tecax 135 km · Escárcega 139 km · Umán 141 km · Hunucmá 147 km · Ek Balam 155 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 Campeche (19.8407°, -90.5168°, elevation 19 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).