Climate and average weather in Ciudad Miguel Alemán

In Ciudad Miguel Alemán, the summers are muggy, sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: late October to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ciudad Miguel Alemán typically varies from 11°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 41°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 Miguel Alemán for warm-weather activities is from late October to mid March.

Hottest
Jul
38°
Coldest
Jan
11°
Wettest
Sep
94 mm
Driest
Feb
22 mm
Rain / yr
505 mm
66 wet days
Daylight
10.3–13.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
55 m
26.4°N
Clearest
Jun
39% cloud

Ciudad Miguel Alemán is municipal seat of Miguel Alemán, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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

Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 7 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Ciudad Miguel Alemán is July, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from November 26 to February 12, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Ciudad Miguel Alemán is January, with an average low of 11°C and high of 22°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2211
Feb2513
Mar2917
Apr3220
May3523
Jun3725
Jul3826
Aug3826
Sep3424
Oct3120
Nov2615
Dec2312

How hot and cold Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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 Miguel Alemán feels like about 44°C (around August 5). About 185 days a year carry some heat stress, and 110 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22221111
Feb25251313
Mar29291717
Apr32322020
May38352323
Jun42372525
Jul43382626
Aug43382626
Sep38342424
Oct32312020
Nov26261515
Dec23231212

Average hourly temperature in Ciudad Miguel Alemán

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 11°C.

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

Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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° / 11°254.410.57.6
Feb25° / 13°224.211.17.8
Mar29° / 17°364.811.86.6
Apr32° / 20°425.212.64.4
May35° / 23°566.713.32.8
Jun37° / 25°425.213.61.8
Jul38° / 26°50513.51.3
Aug38° / 26°345.512.91.2
Sep34° / 24°9410.312.22.9
Oct31° / 20°466.111.45.1
Nov26° / 15°334.710.77.6
Dec23° / 12°264.310.47.8

Chance of rain

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

Ciudad Miguel Alemán gets about 505 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.1 months, from around Aug 19 to Oct 22, peaking in September at about 38% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 94 mm over about 10 wet days; February is the driest, with 22 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 9 · 38%Dec 1 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan154
Feb144
Mar165
Apr175
May217
Jun185
Jul165
Aug196
Sep3310
Oct206
Nov165
Dec144

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ciudad Miguel Alemán collects about 505 mm of rain across 66 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 94 mm, while February is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec252236425642503494463326
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan254
Feb224
Mar365
Apr425
May567
Jun425
Jul505
Aug346
Sep9410
Oct466
Nov335
Dec264

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ciudad Miguel Alemán, 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 11 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around August 31. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 4 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around May 10. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 48% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 9 · 80%Jan 3 · 51%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb5743
Mar5842
Apr6040
May6733
Jun7723
Jul7228
Aug7030
Sep6535
Oct7129
Nov6238
Dec5446

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 18, brings about 13 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 10 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.57:306:01
Feb11.17:186:23
Mar11.86:526:40
Apr12.66:186:55
May13.35:547:11
Jun13.65:477:26
Jul13.55:577:27
Aug12.96:127:08
Sep12.26:266:35
Oct11.46:406:02
Nov10.77:015:42
Dec10.47:225:43

Sunny days

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

Ciudad Miguel Alemán averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around May 22 to Aug 26. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 13 sunny days — about 29% fewer than the June peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1419 daysJan 512 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul17Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct17Bright
Nov15Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Miguel Alemán, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around April 11 to October 23. 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 October 24 to April 10, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 86% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 20 · 87%Jun 8 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan701711200
Feb571720600
Mar4015242010
Apr21112334110
May541137412
Jun00324694
Jul00137575
Aug00133624
Sep24921568
Oct18111828252
Nov4017212030
Dec641316700

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 Ciudad Miguel Alemán is typically light breeze, near 17 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Feb 28 to Aug 23. The windiest month is July, averaging about 20 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 24 to Feb 27, with September the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 11 · 20 km/hSep 27 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr19light breeze
May19light breeze
Jun19light breeze
Jul20light breeze
Aug18light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Ciudad Miguel Alemán

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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 Miguel Alemán for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 29 · 8.1

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
Jan7.6ideal
Feb7.8ideal
Mar6.5good
Apr4.4fair
May2.8poor
Jun1.8poor
Jul1.3poor
Aug1.2poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct5.1fair
Nov7.6ideal
Dec7.8ideal

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 Ciudad Miguel Alemán for hot-weather activities run from early February to mid May and again from late September to early December, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 29 · 7.9

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 Ciudad Miguel Alemán, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes, sun protection and a windbreaker. In the cold season around January (highs near 22°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Ciudad Miguel Alemán sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: a windbreaker. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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 Miguel Alemán peaks around June 21 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 21UV 12Dec 20UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb7Very high
Mar8Very high
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ciudad Miguel Alemán

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 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
Feb62.5
Mar74
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct6.53.5
Nov50
Dec4.50

Air quality in Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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 Miguel Alemán is worst in July — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.3× the cleanest month (January, 7 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1522 µg/m³Jan 127 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb7Good
Mar10Good
Apr12Good
May20Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct7Good
Nov7Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ciudad Miguel Alemán 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
Jan990
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. Ciudad Miguel Alemán banks about 5,505 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan202
Feb257
Mar391
Apr483
May591
Jun632
Jul673
Aug675
Sep574
Oct483
Nov323
Dec221

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 Miguel Alemán receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.1 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 28. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.2 kWh/m² — roughly 54% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 227.0 kWhDec 193.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.4Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May6.4Intense
Jun6.9Intense
Jul7.0Intense
Aug6.6Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Ciudad Miguel Alemán?

Ciudad Miguel Alemán sits at 26.4°N, 99.0°W, 55 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Alton, 72 km away.

Topography around Ciudad Miguel Alemán

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ciudad Miguel Alemán has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 46 m around an average of 63 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 620 m.

The land around Ciudad Miguel Alemán is covered by shrubs (32%), artificial surfaces (25%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, shrubs (58%) within 16 km, and shrubs (62%) within 80 km.

3 km
46 m
16 km
105 m
80 km
620 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Alton 72 km · Mission 73 km · Reynosa 82 km · McAllen 83 km · Edinburg 87 km · Pharr 87 km · San Juan 90 km · Alamo 93 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 Miguel Alemán (26.3982°, -99.0286°, elevation 55 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).