Climate and average weather in Cintalapa de Figueroa

In Cintalapa de Figueroa, the summers are humid, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: late October to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cintalapa de Figueroa typically varies from 15°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 34°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 Cintalapa de Figueroa for warm-weather activities is from late October to early April.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Jun
204 mm
Driest
Mar
15 mm
Rain / yr
1070 mm
168 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
577 m
16.7°N
Clearest
Mar
42% cloud

Cintalapa de Figueroa is municipal seat of Cintalapa, State of Chiapas, Mexico.

Founded
1100

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

Cintalapa de Figueroa 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 early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cintalapa de Figueroa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in April.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2415
Feb2616
Mar2817
Apr3019
May3020
Jun2920
Jul2820
Aug2820
Sep2720
Oct2619
Nov2518
Dec2416

Average hourly temperature in Cintalapa de Figueroa

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Cintalapa de Figueroa 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
Jan24° / 15°247.411.17.4
Feb26° / 16°155.311.47.5
Mar28° / 17°154.711.97.1
Apr30° / 19°205.612.45.7
May30° / 20°8013.912.84.5
Jun29° / 20°20423.5133.6
Jul28° / 20°14523.312.93.9
Aug28° / 20°18424.312.63.9
Sep27° / 20°1912512.14.0
Oct26° / 19°11417.311.65.3
Nov25° / 18°519.911.26.8
Dec24° / 16°277.6117.3

Chance of rain

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

Cintalapa de Figueroa gets about 1070 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.3 months, from around May 17 to Oct 24, peaking in June at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 19.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 204 mm over about 24 wet days; March is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 23 · 82%Mar 19 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb195
Mar155
Apr206
May4514
Jun7724
Jul7623
Aug7824
Sep8125
Oct5817
Nov3310
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cintalapa de Figueroa collects about 1070 mm of rain across 168 wet days — roughly 89 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 204 mm, while March is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec24151520802041451841911145127
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan247
Feb155
Mar155
Apr206
May8014
Jun20424
Jul14523
Aug18424
Sep19125
Oct11417
Nov5110
Dec278

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cintalapa de Figueroa, 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 10 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 25. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 26 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around November 9. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 29 · 71%Sep 17 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb6238
Mar6931
Apr6931
May4852
Jun1882
Jul1684
Aug1387
Sep991
Oct2179
Nov4060
Dec4654

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 6, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:515:57
Feb11.46:466:13
Mar11.96:286:21
Apr12.46:046:26
May12.85:486:34
Jun13.05:456:45
Jul12.95:536:48
Aug12.66:026:36
Sep12.16:066:12
Oct11.66:115:48
Nov11.26:245:36
Dec11.06:415:41

Sunny days

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

Cintalapa de Figueroa averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Nov 18 to May 16. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightMar 1816 daysSep 70 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar17Bright
Apr15Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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 Cintalapa de Figueroa, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around April 17 to November 19. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 20 to April 16, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 43% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 47%Jun 5 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan9344880
Feb83151100
Mar62450200
Apr11439470
May0215775
Jun0028216
Jul0008218
Aug0008317
Sep0028215
Oct03167210
Nov11138491
Dec52348240

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 Cintalapa de Figueroa is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 14 to May 3. The windiest month is November, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 4 to Oct 13, with June the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 22 · 13 km/hJun 18 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May9calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct10calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Cintalapa de Figueroa

In seasonPeak

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

Cintalapa de Figueroa's monsoon runs June–October, 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 Cintalapa de Figueroa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Cintalapa de Figueroa 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 Cintalapa de Figueroa for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 7.6

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
Jan7.4good
Feb7.5ideal
Mar7.1good
Apr5.7good
May4.5fair
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct5.2fair
Nov6.8good
Dec7.3good

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 Cintalapa de Figueroa for hot-weather activities is from late January to mid May, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 25 · 8.2

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 Cintalapa de Figueroa, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Cintalapa de Figueroa sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cintalapa de Figueroa 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 Cintalapa de Figueroa peaks around April 12 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 12UV 13Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Cintalapa de Figueroa

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 6.5 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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.57
Jul8.56
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Cintalapa de Figueroa 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 Cintalapa de Figueroa is worst in May — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.5× the cleanest month (January, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorModerateGoodMay 1039 µg/m³Jan 1111 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr38Poor
May40Poor
Jun21Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cintalapa de Figueroa 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. Cintalapa de Figueroa banks about 4,657 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan297
Feb304
Mar387
Apr432
May470
Jun438
Jul441
Aug438
Sep413
Oct392
Nov333
Dec311

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.

Cintalapa de Figueroa receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Feb 15 to Aug 23. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 38% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 226.4 kWhDec 183.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.2Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.5Intense
May6.0Intense
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep4.5Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Cintalapa de Figueroa?

Cintalapa de Figueroa sits at 16.7°N, 93.7°W, 577 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, 38 km away.

Topography around Cintalapa de Figueroa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cintalapa de Figueroa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 154 m around an average of 557 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 770 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,438 m.

The land around Cintalapa de Figueroa is covered by grassland (51%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, trees (46%) and grassland (43%) within 16 km, and trees (66%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
154 m
16 km
770 m
80 km
2,438 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Ocozocoautla de Espinosa 38 km · Berriozábal 49 km · Arriaga 53 km · Tuxtla 65 km · Tonalá 66 km · Suchiapa 66 km · Villaflores 69 km · Chiapas 75 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 Cintalapa de Figueroa (16.6839°, -93.7181°, elevation 577 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).