Climate and average weather in Magdalena de Kino

In Magdalena de Kino, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early January to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Magdalena de Kino typically varies from 4°C to 36°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 40°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Magdalena de Kino for warm-weather activities are from early January to late April and mid October to mid December.

Hottest
Jun
36°
Coldest
Dec
Wettest
Jul
64 mm
Driest
May
3 mm
Rain / yr
369 mm
53 wet days
Daylight
10.0–14.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
779 m
30.6°N
Clearest
Jun
19% cloud

Magdalena de Kino is municipal seat of Magdalena, State of Sonora, Mexico.

Founded
1700

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

Magdalena de Kino 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 early January to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 20 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 32°C. The hottest month of the year in Magdalena de Kino is June, with an average high of 36°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 26 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Magdalena de Kino is December, with an average low of 4°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 15°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan194
Feb205
Mar237
Apr2710
May3115
Jun3620
Jul3523
Aug3322
Sep3219
Oct2914
Nov238
Dec194

How hot and cold Magdalena de Kino 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, Magdalena de Kino feels like about 37°C (around June 22). About 127 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan191924
Feb202035
Mar232367
Apr27271010
May31311515
Jun36362020
Jul35352223
Aug34332222
Sep32321919
Oct29291414
Nov232378
Dec181924

Average hourly temperature in Magdalena de Kino

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 June afternoons, near 36°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near C.

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

Magdalena de Kino 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
Jan19° / 383.610.27.4
Feb20° / 38410.97.4
Mar23° / 222.811.88.5
Apr27° / 10°6112.78.3
May31° / 15°30.713.55.7
Jun36° / 20°61.613.92.9
Jul35° / 23°6411.713.82.7
Aug33° / 22°6112.513.13.3
Sep32° / 19°466.112.24.5
Oct29° / 14°232.511.27.3
Nov23° / 252.410.58.5
Dec19° / 384.110.17.2

Chance of rain

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

Magdalena de Kino gets about 369 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 2.9 months, from around Jun 27 to Sep 21, peaking in July at about 42% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 2.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 64 mm over about 12 wet days; May is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 42%May 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb144
Mar93
Apr31
May21
Jun72
Jul3612
Aug4013
Sep216
Oct83
Nov82
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Magdalena de Kino collects about 369 mm of rain across 53 wet days — roughly 31 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 64 mm, while May is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec383822636646146232538
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan384
Feb384
Mar223
Apr61
May31
Jun62
Jul6412
Aug6113
Sep466
Oct233
Nov252
Dec384

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Magdalena de Kino, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around March 19 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around July 2. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 3 and lasts for 2.0 months, ending around September 1. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 30% 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 12 · 93%Jul 26 · 64%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb7030
Mar7723
Apr8416
May8911
Jun9010
Jul7030
Aug7228
Sep8614
Oct8713
Nov7822
Dec7228

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 13, brings about 14 hours of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 10 hours — a swing of roughly 4 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.27:275:40
Feb10.97:126:05
Mar11.86:406:27
Apr12.76:026:46
May13.55:347:06
Jun13.95:257:23
Jul13.85:357:24
Aug13.15:547:02
Sep12.26:136:24
Oct11.26:325:46
Nov10.56:565:22
Dec10.17:195:21

Sunny days

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

Magdalena de Kino averages about 20 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Mar 18 to Jun 29. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 13 sunny days — about 44% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1125 daysJul 2411 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr22Bright
May25Brilliant
Jun24Brilliant
Jul14Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep22Bright
Oct24Brilliant
Nov20Bright
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 Magdalena de Kino, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around June 26 to September 29. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 80% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 30 to June 25, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 7 · 100%Aug 9 · 18%muggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr1000000
May990000
Jun866530
Jul231426333
Aug91128475
Sep361923211
Oct879410
Nov991000
Dec1000000

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 Magdalena de Kino is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 7 to Jul 2. The windiest month is May, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 3 to Feb 6, with August the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeMay 16 · 10 km/hAug 9 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Magdalena de Kino

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Magdalena de Kino 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 times of year to visit Magdalena de Kino for general outdoor tourist activities run from early January to late April and again from mid October to late December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 29 · 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
Jan7.4good
Feb7.5good
Mar8.5ideal
Apr8.3ideal
May5.7good
Jun2.9poor
Jul2.7poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep4.5fair
Oct7.2good
Nov8.5ideal
Dec7.3good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Magdalena de Kino for hot-weather activities run from late March to early June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 29 · 9.2

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 Magdalena de Kino, 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 June (highs near 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 19°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Magdalena de Kino sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Magdalena de Kino 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 Magdalena de Kino peaks around June 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 20UV 12Dec 19UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb5High
Mar7Very high
Apr10Very high
May10Very high
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov5High
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Magdalena de Kino

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 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)
Jan40
Feb50
Mar6.53.5
Apr7.55
May85.5
Jun96.5
Jul96.5
Aug8.56
Sep7.55
Oct63
Nov50
Dec30
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Magdalena de Kino is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about January 14 to December 15 (336 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeJan 1490%Dec 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8920
Feb944
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec9016

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. Magdalena de Kino banks about 3,629 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan44
Feb71
Mar160
Apr260
May408
Jun535
Jul573
Aug542
Sep475
Oct348
Nov171
Dec43

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.

Magdalena de Kino receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 8.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 10 to Sep 13. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the June peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 18.4 kWhDec 163.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.8Bright
Mar6.3Intense
Apr7.7Intense
May8.3Intense
Jun8.3Intense
Jul6.9Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep6.0Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec3.6Moderate

Where is Magdalena de Kino?

Magdalena de Kino sits at 30.6°N, 111.0°W, 779 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Cananea, 75 km away.

Topography around Magdalena de Kino

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Magdalena de Kino has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 354 m around an average of 787 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 783 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,079 m.

The land around Magdalena de Kino is covered by shrubs (60%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 3 km, shrubs (91%) within 16 km, and shrubs (89%) within 80 km.

3 km
354 m
16 km
783 m
80 km
2,079 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Cananea 75 km · Nogales 76 km · Nogales 79 km · Rio Rico 94 km · Heroica Caborca 115 km · Sierra Vista 121 km · Green Valley 137 km · Sahuarita 148 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 Magdalena de Kino (30.6268°, -110.9615°, elevation 779 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).