Climate and average weather in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

In Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, 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: mid November to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco typically varies from 8°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 5°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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid April.

Hottest
Apr
25°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
309 mm
Driest
Jan
9 mm
Rain / yr
1589 mm
178 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,082 m
17.3°N
Clearest
Feb
29% cloud

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco is municipal seat of Tlaxiaco, State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Density
51/km²
people per km²
Founded
~400 BCE

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

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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 mid November to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 25°C and low of 12°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan228
Feb239
Mar2510
Apr2512
May2413
Jun2313
Jul2312
Aug2312
Sep2213
Oct2211
Nov229
Dec228

Average hourly temperature in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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° / 92.211.18.3
Feb23° / 101.911.48.7
Mar25° / 10°235.611.98.2
Apr25° / 12°449.212.47.2
May24° / 13°14320.712.85.3
Jun23° / 13°30227.4133.9
Jul23° / 12°27127.512.93.9
Aug23° / 12°29528.412.63.8
Sep22° / 13°3092812.13.7
Oct22° / 11°14218.711.65.3
Nov22° / 326.211.27.5
Dec22° / 102.4118.3

Chance of rain

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

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco gets about 1589 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 5.8 months, from around May 2 to Oct 24, peaking in September at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 19.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 309 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 5 · 95%Feb 19 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan82
Feb82
Mar176
Apr329
May6621
Jun9127
Jul8928
Aug9128
Sep9228
Oct6119
Nov216
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco collects about 1589 mm of rain across 178 wet days — roughly 132 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 309 mm, while January is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec91023441433022712953091423210
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan92
Feb102
Mar236
Apr449
May14321
Jun30227
Jul27128
Aug29528
Sep30928
Oct14219
Nov326
Dec102

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, 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 31 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around May 8. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 9 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around October 30. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 21 · 88%Sep 9 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb8614
Mar8317
Apr7327
May4456
Jun1684
Jul1882
Aug1684
Sep1189
Oct3367
Nov6931
Dec8020

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 1, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.17:086:12
Feb11.47:036:28
Mar11.96:446:37
Apr12.46:196:43
May12.86:036:51
Jun13.06:007:02
Jul12.96:087:05
Aug12.66:176:52
Sep12.16:226:28
Oct11.66:286:04
Nov11.26:415:51
Dec11.06:585:56

Sunny days

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

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Nov 6 to May 1. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2422 daysSep 91 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr14Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
Dec19Bright

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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 3% 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 (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar9820
Apr9190
May51473
Jun20773
Jul38621
Aug33670
Sep20791
Oct51490
Nov87130
Dec9910

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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 6 · 6 km/hJun 9 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

In seasonPeak

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

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid April, with a peak score in the third week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 21 · 8.9

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
Jan8.3ideal
Feb8.7ideal
Mar8.2ideal
Apr7.1good
May5.3fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct5.3fair
Nov7.5ideal
Dec8.3ideal

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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco for hot-weather activities is from late January to late April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 26 · 7.5

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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, 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.

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 12°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco peaks around April 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 9 (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 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

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 7 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)
Jan75
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr8.57
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco is worst in May — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (January, 9 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMay 1324 µg/m³Jan 219 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar12Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco 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. Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco banks about 2,507 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan150
Feb168
Mar224
Apr249
May260
Jun235
Jul225
Aug228
Sep221
Oct214
Nov176
Dec157

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.

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Feb 3 to Jun 3. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is September, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 97.0 kWhSep 234.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco?

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco sits at 17.3°N, 97.7°W, 2,082 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Ciudad de Huajuapan de León, 61 km away.

Topography around Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 351 m around an average of 2,116 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,626 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,211 m.

The land around Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco is covered by grassland (39%), trees (28%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (65%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and trees (62%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
351 m
16 km
1,626 m
80 km
3,211 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ciudad de Huajuapan de León 61 km · Santa María Atzompa 98 km · Tlapa de Comonfort 100 km · Ometepec 101 km · Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán 104 km · Oaxaca 104 km · San Antonio de la Cal 107 km · Pinotepa Nacional 111 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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (17.2687°, -97.6803°, elevation 2,082 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).