Climate and average weather in Coatzintla

In Coatzintla, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Coatzintla typically varies from 15°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 36°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 Coatzintla for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early November to late December.

Hottest
May
32°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Sep
251 mm
Driest
Feb
47 mm
Rain / yr
1455 mm
172 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
77 m
20.5°N
Clearest
May
60% cloud

Coatzintla is municipal seat of Coatzintla, State of Veracruz, Mexico.

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

Coatzintla 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.4 months, from April 14 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Coatzintla is May, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from December 2 to February 14, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Coatzintla is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2415
Feb2517
Mar2819
Apr3121
May3223
Jun3224
Jul3223
Aug3223
Sep3123
Oct2921
Nov2718
Dec2416

How hot and cold Coatzintla 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, Coatzintla feels like about 40°C (around June 7). About 198 days a year carry some heat stress, and 20 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)
Jan24241515
Feb25251617
Mar29281919
Apr34312121
May38322323
Jun39322424
Jul37322323
Aug38322323
Sep36312323
Oct32292121
Nov27271818
Dec24241616

Average hourly temperature in Coatzintla

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Coatzintla 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°51910.96.9
Feb25° / 17°477.811.36.8
Mar28° / 19°568.111.96.3
Apr31° / 21°738.212.54.8
May32° / 23°10012.1133.6
Jun32° / 24°17320.813.22.8
Jul32° / 23°16022.613.12.8
Aug32° / 23°16823.412.72.8
Sep31° / 23°25123.212.13.0
Oct29° / 21°21315.811.54.6
Nov27° / 18°11211.8116.2
Dec24° / 16°539.410.86.8

Chance of rain

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

Coatzintla gets about 1455 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 4.8 months, from around May 29 to Oct 21, peaking in September at about 81% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 251 mm over about 23 wet days; February is the driest, with 47 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 4 · 81%Apr 1 · 24%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb288
Mar268
Apr288
May4012
Jun6821
Jul7423
Aug7523
Sep7623
Oct5216
Nov3912
Dec319

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Coatzintla collects about 1455 mm of rain across 172 wet days — roughly 121 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 251 mm, while February is the driest at just 47 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5147567310017316016825121311253
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan519
Feb478
Mar568
Apr738
May10012
Jun17321
Jul16023
Aug16823
Sep25123
Oct21316
Nov11212
Dec539

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Coatzintla, 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 March 15 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around June 21. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 46% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 18 and lasts for 1.8 months, ending around October 12. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 27 · 50%Sep 8 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3466
Feb3763
Mar4159
Apr4357
May4654
Jun4456
Jul4060
Aug4159
Sep3268
Oct4060
Nov4357
Dec3763

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 2, 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)
Jan10.97:136:06
Feb11.37:056:24
Mar11.96:446:35
Apr12.56:166:44
May13.05:576:55
Jun13.25:537:07
Jul13.16:027:09
Aug12.76:136:55
Sep12.16:216:28
Oct11.56:296:01
Nov11.06:455:45
Dec10.87:035:49

Sunny days

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

Coatzintla averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 1.1 months, from around May 14 to Jun 16. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is July, down near 5 sunny days — about 21% fewer than the June peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 18 daysJul 14 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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 Coatzintla, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around March 20 to November 6. 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 November 7 to March 19, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 38% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 14 · 39%May 11 · 0%miserablemuggyhumidoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1524332720
Feb8182736100
Mar581636341
Apr1210225016
May00294545
Jun00014653
Jul00006535
Aug00006634
Sep00166330
Oct148244914
Nov6101939251
Dec1319263570

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 13 · 7 km/hAug 27 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Coatzintla

In seasonPeak

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

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

Coatzintla'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 Coatzintla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Coatzintla 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 Coatzintla for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 16 · 7.0

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
Jan6.9good
Feb6.8good
Mar6.3good
Apr4.8fair
May3.6fair
Jun2.9poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct4.6fair
Nov6.2good
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 times of year to visit Coatzintla for hot-weather activities run from late January to late May and again from mid October to late December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 29 · 7.2

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 Coatzintla, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Coatzintla sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Coatzintla

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

The sea at the nearest coast (about 39 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 22°C.

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

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan23Refreshing
Feb22Refreshing
Mar23Refreshing
Apr25Warm
May27Warm
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov26Warm
Dec24Warm

UV index (midday) in Coatzintla 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 Coatzintla peaks around June 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highHighJun 20UV 12Dec 21UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb9Very high
Mar10Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May8Very high
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov7Very high
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Coatzintla

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)
Jan5.52.5
Feb74.5
Mar7.55
Apr86
May7.54.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct74.5
Nov63
Dec5.52

Air quality in Coatzintla 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 Coatzintla is worst in May — around 68 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.8× the cleanest month (October, 38 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyMay 1068 µg/m³Oct 1038 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan58Unhealthy
Feb60Unhealthy
Mar60Unhealthy
Apr67Unhealthy
May68Unhealthy
Jun49Poor
Jul46Poor
Aug42Poor
Sep39Poor
Oct38Poor
Nov49Poor
Dec65Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Coatzintla 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. Coatzintla banks about 5,321 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan292
Feb304
Mar410
Apr475
May548
Jun541
Jul547
Aug549
Sep509
Oct465
Nov368
Dec313

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.

Coatzintla receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 23. The brightest month is May, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 47% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 296.0 kWhDec 273.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Coatzintla?

Coatzintla sits at 20.5°N, 97.5°W, 77 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Poza Rica de Hidalgo, 5.0 km away.

Topography around Coatzintla

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Coatzintla has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 189 m around an average of 90 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 375 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,964 m.

The land around Coatzintla is covered by trees (44%), grassland (35%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, grassland (48%) and trees (44%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
189 m
16 km
375 m
80 km
2,964 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Poza Rica de Hidalgo 5.0 km · El Tajín 11 km · Papantla de Olarte 16 km · Álamo 52 km · Alto Lucero 52 km · Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano 53 km · Xicotepec de Juárez 56 km · Martínez de la Torre 63 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 Coatzintla (20.487°, -97.4682°, elevation 77 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).