Climate and average weather in Contla

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

Best: late October to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Contla typically varies from 6°C to 24°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 28°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Contla for warm-weather activities is from late October to late April.

Hottest
Apr
24°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
177 mm
Driest
Dec
8 mm
Rain / yr
970 mm
133 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,327 m
19.3°N
Clearest
Feb
32% cloud

Contla is municipal seat of Contla, State of Tlaxcala, Mexico.

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

Contla 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 late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Contla stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 24°C and low of 10°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan206
Feb227
Mar238
Apr2410
May2411
Jun2312
Jul2211
Aug2211
Sep2111
Oct2110
Nov218
Dec206

Average hourly temperature in Contla

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 April afternoons, near 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Contla 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
Jan20° / 122.6117.8
Feb22° / 122.311.38.3
Mar23° / 25611.98.0
Apr24° / 10°438.812.47.3
May24° / 11°7814.612.96.4
Jun23° / 12°17218.413.15.3
Jul22° / 11°16220.4135.0
Aug22° / 11°17521.212.74.9
Sep21° / 11°17720.212.14.8
Oct21° / 10°8211.711.66.3
Nov21° / 244.711.17.6
Dec20° / 8210.98.0

Chance of rain

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

Contla gets about 970 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 5.8 months, from around Apr 24 to Oct 16, peaking in September at about 73% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 9.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 177 mm over about 20 wet days; December is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 4 · 73%Dec 9 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb92
Mar186
Apr319
May4715
Jun6118
Jul6620
Aug6821
Sep6620
Oct3812
Nov165
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Contla collects about 970 mm of rain across 133 wet days — roughly 81 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 177 mm, while December is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec121225437817216217517782248
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan123
Feb122
Mar256
Apr439
May7815
Jun17218
Jul16220
Aug17521
Sep17720
Oct8212
Nov245
Dec82

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Contla, 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 October 24 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 21. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 22 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 24 · 85%Sep 4 · 25%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7426
Feb8119
Mar7921
Apr7129
May5842
Jun3565
Jul3565
Aug3466
Sep2773
Oct4852
Nov7030
Dec7624

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 14, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan11.07:136:11
Feb11.37:076:28
Mar11.96:466:38
Apr12.46:206:46
May12.96:026:56
Jun13.15:587:08
Jul13.06:067:10
Aug12.76:176:57
Sep12.16:246:30
Oct11.66:316:04
Nov11.16:465:50
Dec10.97:045:54

Sunny days

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

Contla averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Oct 27 to Apr 22. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 3 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2221 daysSep 112 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr12Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov15Bright
Dec18Bright

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 Contla, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May982
Jun8614
Jul946
Aug919
Sep8515
Oct946
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Contla is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 9 · 8 km/hMay 19 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Contla

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Contla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 22 · 8.5

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
Jan7.8ideal
Feb8.2ideal
Mar8.0ideal
Apr7.3good
May6.4good
Jun5.4fair
Jul5.0fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep4.9fair
Oct6.3good
Nov7.6ideal
Dec8.0ideal

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 Contla for hot-weather activities is from mid February to late May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 3 · 6.6

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 Contla, 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.

Contla packs about the same all year — highs hold near 24°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Contla sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 10°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Contla 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 Contla peaks around April 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 11UV 15Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Contla

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)
Jan6.54.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun97
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Contla 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 Contla is worst in December — around 165 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0306090120150180JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyVery unhealthyDec 13163 µg/m³Aug 15114 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan137Unhealthy
Feb131Unhealthy
Mar122Unhealthy
Apr120Unhealthy
May143Unhealthy
Jun121Unhealthy
Jul118Unhealthy
Aug113Unhealthy
Sep120Unhealthy
Oct121Unhealthy
Nov155Very unhealthy
Dec165Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Contla 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. Contla banks about 2,044 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan85
Feb121
Mar180
Apr214
May236
Jun217
Jul198
Aug203
Sep190
Oct173
Nov129
Dec97

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.

Contla receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Feb 12 to Jun 22. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 77.0 kWhDec 195.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun6.0Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug6.0Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Contla?

Contla sits at 19.3°N, 98.2°W, 2,327 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Santa Ana Chiautempan, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Contla

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Contla has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 181 m around an average of 2,327 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,662 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,374 m.

The land around Contla is covered by artificial surfaces (41%), trees (23%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, trees (35%) and cropland (30%) within 16 km, and cropland (34%) and trees (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
181 m
16 km
1,662 m
80 km
4,374 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Santa Ana Chiautempan 3.0 km · La Magdalena Tlaltelulco 6.0 km · Tlaxcala 8.0 km · Apizaco 10 km · Teolocholco 10 km · Tetla 14 km · Zacatelco 15 km · Papalotla 18 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 Contla (19.3293°, -98.1664°, elevation 2,327 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).