Climate and average weather in Las Choapas

In Las Choapas, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: mid November to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Las Choapas typically varies from 20°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 38°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
34°
Coldest
Jan
20°
Wettest
Sep
303 mm
Driest
Mar
30 mm
Rain / yr
1729 mm
195 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
22 m
17.9°N
Clearest
Apr
40% cloud

Las Choapas is municipal seat of Las Choapas, State of Veracruz, Mexico.

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

Las Choapas 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Las Choapas stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 20°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2620
Feb2820
Mar3021
Apr3323
May3425
Jun3325
Jul3225
Aug3224
Sep3124
Oct3023
Nov2822
Dec2720

How hot and cold Las Choapas 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, Las Choapas feels like about 41°C (around June 14). About 237 days a year carry some heat stress, and 130 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan26261920
Feb29282020
Mar33302121
Apr37332323
May40342525
Jun41332525
Jul40322525
Aug40322424
Sep38312424
Oct35302323
Nov31282222
Dec28272020

Average hourly temperature in Las Choapas

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 20°C.

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

Las Choapas 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
Jan26° / 20°7911.5116.4
Feb28° / 20°458.411.46.4
Mar30° / 21°306.211.95.5
Apr33° / 23°336.212.44.1
May34° / 25°7511.112.83.1
Jun33° / 25°21722.513.12.5
Jul32° / 25°20423.6132.7
Aug32° / 24°25726.412.62.6
Sep31° / 24°3032712.12.6
Oct30° / 23°2512211.63.7
Nov28° / 22°14816.311.25.2
Dec27° / 20°8813.710.96.0

Chance of rain

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

Las Choapas gets about 1729 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 5.6 months, from around May 30 to Nov 15, peaking in September at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 25.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 303 mm over about 27 wet days; March is the driest, with 30 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 7 · 91%Mar 25 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb308
Mar206
Apr216
May3711
Jun7323
Jul7824
Aug8426
Sep8927
Oct7222
Nov5416
Dec4414

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Las Choapas collects about 1729 mm of rain across 195 wet days — roughly 144 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 303 mm, while March is the driest at just 30 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec794530337521720425730325114888
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan7912
Feb458
Mar306
Apr336
May7511
Jun21723
Jul20424
Aug25726
Sep30327
Oct25122
Nov14816
Dec8814

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Las Choapas, 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 January 7 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around June 3. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 4 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 29. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 22 · 74%Sep 16 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb6040
Mar7030
Apr7327
May6436
Jun3565
Jul2971
Aug2575
Sep1882
Oct3763
Nov5446
Dec5149

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 11, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.06:555:57
Feb11.46:496:13
Mar11.96:306:22
Apr12.46:046:29
May12.85:476:38
Jun13.15:456:49
Jul13.05:536:51
Aug12.66:026:39
Sep12.16:086:14
Oct11.66:145:49
Nov11.26:275:36
Dec10.96:455:41

Sunny days

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

Las Choapas averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Jan 14 to Jun 4. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 2 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the April peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightApr 1317 daysSep 162 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr16Bright
May13Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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.

Las Choapas is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is April, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 95% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan51843340
Feb31538440
Mar31029553
Apr14196214
May0055144
Jun0002575
Jul0001585
Aug000892
Sep0011683
Oct0194150
Nov15245812
Dec21237481

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Las Choapas is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Oct 20 to May 5. The windiest month is January, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 6 to Oct 19, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 8 · 10 km/hSep 7 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Las Choapas

In seasonPeak

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

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

Las Choapas's rainy season runs June–November, 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 Las Choapas

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 13 · 6.5

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
Jan6.4good
Feb6.4good
Mar5.5good
Apr4.1fair
May3.1poor
Jun2.5poor
Jul2.7poor
Aug2.6poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct3.7fair
Nov5.2fair
Dec6.0good

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 Las Choapas for hot-weather activities is from mid January to mid May, with a peak score in the third week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 17 · 7.7

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 Las Choapas, 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 34°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Las Choapas sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Las Choapas

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 38 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 24°C.

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

22°24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan24Warm
Feb24Warm
Mar25Warm
Apr27Warm
May28Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov27Warm
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Las Choapas 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 Las Choapas peaks around August 16 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highAug 16UV 12Dec 21UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May8Very high
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Las Choapas

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan63
Feb75
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May7.55
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Las Choapas 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 Las Choapas is worst in May — around 63 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.4× the cleanest month (January, 26 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyPoorModerateMay 1561 µg/m³Jan 1627 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb30Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr51Poor
May63Unhealthy
Jun44Poor
Jul43Poor
Aug36Poor
Sep34Moderate
Oct29Moderate
Nov27Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Las Choapas 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. Las Choapas banks about 5,999 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan399
Feb386
Mar487
Apr540
May596
Jun565
Jul568
Aug558
Sep525
Oct511
Nov445
Dec419

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.

Las Choapas receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Feb 26 to Sep 5. The brightest month is May, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 46% less than the May peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 26.6 kWhDec 263.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.6Moderate
Feb4.4Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.8Moderate
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is Las Choapas?

Las Choapas sits at 17.9°N, 94.1°W, 22 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Agua Dulce, 26 km away.

Topography around Las Choapas

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Las Choapas has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 63 m around an average of 13 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 161 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,173 m.

The land around Las Choapas is covered by grassland (37%), artificial surfaces (24%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, trees (41%), grassland (34%) and wetland (21%) within 16 km, and grassland (38%), trees (33%) and water (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
63 m
16 km
161 m
80 km
1,173 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Agua Dulce 26 km · Nanchital de Lázaro Cárdenas del Río 37 km · Allende 41 km · Coatzacoalcos 45 km · Minatitlán 50 km · Fraccionamiento Ciudad Olmeca 55 km · Cosoleacaque 58 km · Jáltipan de Morelos 66 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 Las Choapas (17.9118°, -94.0965°, elevation 22 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).