Climate and average weather in Guasave

In Guasave, the summers are oppressive, sweltering, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: late November to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Guasave typically varies from 13°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 38°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 Guasave for warm-weather activities is from late November to early April.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
13°
Wettest
Aug
114 mm
Driest
May
1 mm
Rain / yr
416 mm
51 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
19 m
25.6°N
Clearest
May
20% cloud

Guasave is municipal seat of Guasave, State of Sinaloa, Mexico.

Founded
1595

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

Guasave 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 November to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Guasave, 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 May 22 to November 1, with daily high temperatures above 33°C. The hottest month of the year in Guasave is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from December 6 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 28°C. The coldest month of the year in Guasave is January, with an average low of 13°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2713
Feb2713
Mar2914
Apr3116
May3319
Jun3424
Jul3527
Aug3527
Sep3426
Oct3423
Nov3117
Dec2713

How hot and cold Guasave 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, Guasave feels like about 45°C (around August 11). About 191 days a year carry some heat stress, and 119 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)
Jan27271213
Feb27271313
Mar29291414
Apr31311616
May33331919
Jun39342424
Jul43352727
Aug44352727
Sep43342626
Oct38342323
Nov31311717
Dec27271313

Average hourly temperature in Guasave

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 13°C.

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

Guasave 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
Jan27° / 13°151.610.68.2
Feb27° / 13°141.611.18.1
Mar29° / 14°30.411.87.4
Apr31° / 16°10.312.66.1
May33° / 19°10.113.24.9
Jun34° / 24°6113.63.8
Jul35° / 27°701013.42.5
Aug35° / 27°11415.512.92.2
Sep34° / 26°11313.112.22.7
Oct34° / 23°333.411.43.5
Nov31° / 17°312.210.85.6
Dec27° / 13°151.910.47.9

Chance of rain

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

Guasave gets about 416 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.3 months, from around Jun 30 to Oct 8, peaking in August at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 8.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 114 mm over about 16 wet days; May is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 27 · 56%May 8 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb52
Mar20
Apr10
May10
Jun51
Jul3110
Aug5016
Sep4313
Oct123
Nov72
Dec62

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Guasave collects about 416 mm of rain across 51 wet days — roughly 35 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 114 mm, while May is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 71% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1514311670114113333115
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan152
Feb142
Mar30
Apr10
May10
Jun61
Jul7010
Aug11416
Sep11313
Oct333
Nov312
Dec152

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Guasave, 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 March 6 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around June 30. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 1 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around September 20. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 59% 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 3 · 92%Aug 22 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6733
Mar7228
Apr7426
May8713
Jun8614
Jul4951
Aug4159
Sep6238
Oct8515
Nov7723
Dec6733

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 10, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan10.67:065:40
Feb11.16:556:02
Mar11.86:296:18
Apr12.65:566:32
May13.25:336:47
Jun13.65:277:02
Jul13.45:367:03
Aug12.95:516:45
Sep12.26:046:13
Oct11.46:175:41
Nov10.86:375:21
Dec10.46:585:22

Sunny days

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

Guasave averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Feb 24 to Jun 27. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 6 sunny days — about 74% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 326 daysAug 146 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr19Bright
May25Brilliant
Jun23Brilliant
Jul8Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep14Mixed
Oct24Brilliant
Nov20Bright
Dec17Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around May 4 to November 12. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 13 to May 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 91% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 92%Jun 24 · 0%muggyhumidoppressivemiserablecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan63288000
Feb553014100
Mar443718100
Apr263728800
May6163432110
Jun016185717
Jul00002772
Aug0000496
Sep0002989
Oct2514252826
Nov1727312050
Dec542915200

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 Guasave is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 15 · 9 km/hAug 20 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Guasave

In seasonPeak

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

Guasave sits in the eastern Pacific hurricane zone; the season peaks August–September.

Pacific hurricane
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Guasave

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Guasave 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 Guasave for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to early April, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 8.3

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
Jan8.2ideal
Feb8.0ideal
Mar7.4good
Apr6.1good
May4.9fair
Jun3.7fair
Jul2.5poor
Aug2.2poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov5.6good
Dec7.9ideal

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 Guasave for hot-weather activities is from mid October to late June, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 22 · 9.0

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 Guasave, 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 35°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Guasave sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Guasave

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 27 km away) is warmest in August at about 30°C and coldest in February near 20°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Mar 17 to Jan 13 — about 10 months when the water holds above 20°C.

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan20Cool
Feb20Cool
Mar20Cool
Apr22Refreshing
May25Warm
Jun28Warm
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov25Warm
Dec22Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Guasave 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 Guasave peaks around July 17 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 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 highHighJul 17UV 12Dec 19UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5High
Feb7High
Mar9Very high
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Guasave

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 July 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
Feb62.5
Mar74.5
Apr86
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.50.5
Dec4.50
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Guasave 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. Guasave banks about 5,615 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan295
Feb287
Mar357
Apr403
May497
Jun576
Jul644
Aug640
Sep600
Oct572
Nov425
Dec319

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.

Guasave receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Mar 1 to Aug 10. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 48% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 197.9 kWhDec 144.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar6.5Intense
Apr7.4Intense
May7.9Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Guasave?

Guasave sits at 25.6°N, 108.5°W, 19 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Gabriel Leyva Solano, 20 km away.

Topography around Guasave

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Guasave has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m around an average of 17 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,603 m.

The land around Guasave is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) and cropland (28%) within 3 km, cropland (82%) within 16 km, and cropland (30%), water (26%) and trees (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
19 m
16 km
34 m
80 km
1,603 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Gabriel Leyva Solano 20 km · Guamúchil 41 km · Juan José Ríos 41 km · Los Mochis 59 km · Navolato 118 km · Licenciado Benito Juárez 138 km · Culiacán 138 km · Costa Rica 154 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 Guasave (25.5679°, -108.4695°, elevation 19 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).