Climate and average weather in Huixtla

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

Best: late November to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Huixtla typically varies from 17°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 32°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Huixtla for warm-weather activities is from late November to mid March.

Hottest
Mar
30°
Coldest
Oct
19°
Wettest
Sep
640 mm
Driest
Feb
14 mm
Rain / yr
3411 mm
242 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
52 m
15.1°N
Clearest
Feb
25% cloud

Huixtla is municipal seat of Huixtla, State of Chiapas, Mexico.

Founded
1486

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

Huixtla 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 mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Huixtla stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 30°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is October, with an average low of 19°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2917
Feb3018
Mar3019
Apr3020
May2920
Jun2820
Jul2819
Aug2819
Sep2820
Oct2719
Nov2818
Dec2817

Average hourly temperature in Huixtla

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 March afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in October, near 19°C.

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

Huixtla 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
Jan29° / 17°154.111.26.9
Feb30° / 18°144.211.56.3
Mar30° / 19°339.311.95.4
Apr30° / 20°10817.712.34.3
May29° / 20°34428.512.73.3
Jun28° / 20°53529.412.93.3
Jul28° / 19°51830.812.83.1
Aug28° / 19°57930.912.53.2
Sep28° / 20°64029.712.13.2
Oct27° / 19°43829.411.73.5
Nov28° / 18°15219.511.35.1
Dec28° / 17°368.411.16.8

Chance of rain

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

Huixtla gets about 3411 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 6.8 months, from around Apr 23 to Nov 14, peaking in August at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 17.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 640 mm over about 30 wet days; February is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 12 · 100%Jan 17 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan144
Feb154
Mar319
Apr5918
May9129
Jun9829
Jul9931
Aug10031
Sep9930
Oct9429
Nov6520
Dec288

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Huixtla collects about 3411 mm of rain across 242 wet days — roughly 284 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 640 mm, while February is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700750JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15143310834453551857964043815236
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan154
Feb144
Mar339
Apr10818
May34429
Jun53529
Jul51831
Aug57931
Sep64030
Oct43829
Nov15220
Dec368

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Huixtla, 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 November 4 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around May 6. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 7 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around November 3. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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 9 · 94%Sep 19 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan928
Feb946
Mar8911
Apr7525
May3466
Jun892
Jul1189
Aug991
Sep496
Oct2278
Nov6634
Dec8812

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 5, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:435:55
Feb11.56:406:09
Mar11.96:236:16
Apr12.36:006:20
May12.75:456:27
Jun12.95:436:37
Jul12.85:516:40
Aug12.55:596:29
Sep12.16:026:07
Oct11.76:055:45
Nov11.36:175:34
Dec11.16:335:39

Sunny days

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

Huixtla averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Nov 10 to Apr 23. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is September, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 325 daysSep 50 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb23Brilliant
Mar21Bright
Apr14Mixed
May4Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
Dec23Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.4 months, from around March 27 to December 6. 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 December 7 to March 26, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 41% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 14 · 43%Jun 5 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan7315660
Feb7345270
Mar31753270
Apr0428626
May0136036
Jun0005742
Jul0007228
Aug0007129
Sep0007228
Oct0047125
Nov1522666
Dec21354310

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 Huixtla is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 14 · 6 km/hSep 21 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Huixtla

In seasonPeak

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

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

Huixtla's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Huixtla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 9 · 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
Feb6.3good
Mar5.4fair
Apr4.3fair
May3.3poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov5.1fair
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 time of year to visit Huixtla for hot-weather activities is from early December to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 20 · 8.7

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 Huixtla, 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.

Huixtla packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Huixtla sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Huixtla

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 34 km away) is warmest in July at about 30°C and coldest in February near 28°C.

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

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Huixtla 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 Huixtla peaks around April 9 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 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 9UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Huixtla

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 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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Huixtla 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 Huixtla is worst in May — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 1039 µg/m³Feb 827 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb27Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr38Poor
May40Poor
Jun29Moderate
Jul31Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct29Moderate
Nov30Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Huixtla 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. Huixtla banks about 5,005 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan405
Feb384
Mar446
Apr445
May449
Jun417
Jul424
Aug424
Sep407
Oct416
Nov392
Dec395

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.

Huixtla receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Jan 31 to May 26. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 136.5 kWhOct 24.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May6.0Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Huixtla?

Huixtla sits at 15.1°N, 92.5°W, 52 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Tapachula, 34 km away.

Topography around Huixtla

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Huixtla has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 183 m around an average of 50 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,802 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,178 m.

The land around Huixtla is covered by trees (48%) and grassland (26%) within 3 km, trees (71%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) and water (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
183 m
16 km
1,802 m
80 km
4,178 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Tapachula 34 km · Motozintla 34 km · Cacahoatán 36 km · Malacatán 50 km · Mapastepec 57 km · Comalapa 67 km · San Marcos 74 km · Comitancillo 77 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 Huixtla (15.1392°, -92.4634°, elevation 52 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).