Climate and average weather in Ciudad de Allende

In Ciudad de Allende, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late September to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ciudad de Allende typically varies from 7°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 34°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ciudad de Allende for warm-weather activities is from late September to early May.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
195 mm
Driest
Dec
38 mm
Rain / yr
1063 mm
123 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
469 m
25.3°N
Clearest
Jun
42% cloud

Ciudad de Allende is municipal seat of Allende, State of Nuevo León, Mexico.

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

Ciudad de Allende 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 September to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 9 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Ciudad de Allende is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from November 27 to February 12, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Ciudad de Allende is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan197
Feb219
Mar2311
Apr2614
May2817
Jun3019
Jul3119
Aug3119
Sep2818
Oct2515
Nov2211
Dec198

How hot and cold Ciudad de Allende 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, Ciudad de Allende feels like about 32°C (around August 7). About 3 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan181967
Feb212189
Mar23231111
Apr26261414
May29281717
Jun31301919
Jul31311919
Aug31311919
Sep29281818
Oct25251515
Nov22221111
Dec191978

Average hourly temperature in Ciudad de Allende

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 July afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Ciudad de Allende 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
Jan19° / 487.910.66.5
Feb21° / 639.111.16.7
Mar23° / 11°9512.311.86.8
Apr26° / 14°12913.412.66.2
May28° / 17°12213.613.25.5
Jun30° / 19°779.413.55.2
Jul31° / 19°788.413.45.0
Aug31° / 19°63912.94.9
Sep28° / 18°19515.612.25.5
Oct25° / 15°1021011.47.1
Nov22° / 11°53810.87.2
Dec19° / 386.410.56.8

Chance of rain

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

Ciudad de Allende gets about 1063 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 1.7 months, from around Aug 22 to Oct 11, peaking in September at about 55% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 7.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 195 mm over about 16 wet days; December is the driest, with 38 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 12 · 55%Dec 7 · 20%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb329
Mar4012
Apr4513
May4314
Jun329
Jul278
Aug319
Sep4916
Oct3310
Nov278
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ciudad de Allende collects about 1063 mm of rain across 123 wet days — roughly 89 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 195 mm, while December is the driest at just 38 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4863951291227778631951025338
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan488
Feb639
Mar9512
Apr12913
May12214
Jun779
Jul788
Aug639
Sep19516
Oct10210
Nov538
Dec386

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ciudad de Allende, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 14 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around August 26. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 70% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 27 and lasts for 1.1 months, ending around September 29. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 6 · 73%Sep 12 · 53%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb6139
Mar6337
Apr6139
May6535
Jun7030
Jul6832
Aug6931
Sep5644
Oct6634
Nov6436
Dec6139

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 13, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.67:326:07
Feb11.17:216:28
Mar11.86:556:44
Apr12.66:236:58
May13.25:597:13
Jun13.55:537:27
Jul13.46:037:29
Aug12.96:177:11
Sep12.26:306:39
Oct11.46:436:07
Nov10.87:035:48
Dec10.57:235:49

Sunny days

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

Ciudad de Allende averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.7 months, from around Jun 1 to Aug 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 12 sunny days — about 25% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 418 daysSep 910 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar15Bright
Apr13Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul16Bright
Aug16Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct15Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec15Mixed

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 Ciudad de Allende, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around April 16 to October 24. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 95% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 25 to April 15, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 100%Jun 18 · 4%muggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan937000
Feb7721200
Mar51311810
Apr232637140
May41041423
Jun0535574
Jul01147402
Aug01048411
Sep31032532
Oct192238201
Nov55281610
Dec8415100

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 12 · 6 km/hSep 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Ciudad de Allende

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Ciudad de Allende 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 Ciudad de Allende for general outdoor tourist activities is from late September to early May, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 29 · 7.4

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
Jan6.5good
Feb6.7good
Mar6.7good
Apr6.2good
May5.6good
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.0fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep5.5good
Oct7.0good
Nov7.1good
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 Ciudad de Allende for hot-weather activities is from early April to late October, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 7.3

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 Ciudad de Allende, 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 July (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 19°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Ciudad de Allende sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ciudad de Allende 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 Ciudad de Allende peaks around June 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highHighJun 19UV 12Dec 19UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb8Very high
Mar10Very high
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov6High
Dec5High

Average hourly UV index in Ciudad de Allende

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 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)
Jan50
Feb6.54
Mar75
Apr86
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct6.54
Nov5.51.5
Dec4.50

Air quality in Ciudad de Allende 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 Ciudad de Allende is worst in May — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1919 µg/m³Oct 2113 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb13Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ciudad de Allende 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
Jan980
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec980

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. Ciudad de Allende banks about 3,475 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan86
Feb135
Mar227
Apr306
May396
Jun429
Jul456
Aug458
Sep386
Oct308
Nov184
Dec103

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.

Ciudad de Allende receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 9 to Sep 10. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 286.8 kWhDec 193.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.7Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.5Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.0Bright
Dec3.7Moderate

Where is Ciudad de Allende?

Ciudad de Allende sits at 25.3°N, 100.0°W, 469 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Santiago, 21 km away.

Topography around Ciudad de Allende

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ciudad de Allende has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 147 m around an average of 456 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,478 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,555 m.

The land around Ciudad de Allende is covered by trees (45%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, trees (76%) within 16 km, and shrubs (43%) and trees (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
147 m
16 km
2,478 m
80 km
3,555 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Santiago 21 km · Montemorelos 22 km · Cadereyta 34 km · Cadereyta Jiménez 34 km · Ciudad Benito Juárez 41 km · Jardines de la Silla 42 km · Guadalupe 50 km · Monterrey 54 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 Ciudad de Allende (25.2812°, -100.0193°, elevation 469 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).