Climate and average weather in Metepec

In Metepec, the weather is mild, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near mild levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around July.

Best: late October to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Metepec typically varies from 3°C to 22°C, and is rarely below 0°C or above 25°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 Metepec for warm-weather activities is from late October to early May.

Hottest
Apr
22°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
301 mm
Driest
Dec
14 mm
Rain / yr
1457 mm
170 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,623 m
19.3°N
Clearest
Feb
36% cloud

Metepec is municipal seat of Metepec, State of México, Mexico.

Founded
1526

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

Metepec 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 October to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Metepec stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 22°C and low of 7°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan173
Feb194
Mar215
Apr227
May228
Jun219
Jul199
Aug199
Sep199
Oct197
Nov185
Dec183

Average hourly temperature in Metepec

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 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Metepec 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
Jan17° / 244.9116.6
Feb19° / 245.611.37.1
Mar21° / 327.611.97.1
Apr22° / 6011.112.46.6
May22° / 1291712.95.6
Jun21° / 23221.113.14.5
Jul19° / 30127.8133.6
Aug19° / 28226.712.73.7
Sep19° / 22623.412.14.0
Oct19° / 9914.411.65.4
Nov18° / 346.511.16.7
Dec18° / 143.510.97.0

Chance of rain

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

Metepec gets about 1457 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 5.7 months, from around Apr 28 to Oct 16, peaking in July at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 12.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 301 mm over about 28 wet days; December is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 8 · 90%Dec 12 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb206
Mar258
Apr3711
May5417
Jun7121
Jul8928
Aug8627
Sep7723
Oct4714
Nov227
Dec114

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Metepec collects about 1457 mm of rain across 170 wet days — roughly 121 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 301 mm, while December is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec24243260129232301282226993414
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan245
Feb246
Mar328
Apr6011
May12917
Jun23221
Jul30128
Aug28227
Sep22623
Oct9914
Nov347
Dec144

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Metepec, 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 27 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 17. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 18 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 26. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 24 · 82%Aug 28 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7624
Mar7624
Apr6436
May4852
Jun2674
Jul1882
Aug1585
Sep1684
Oct3565
Nov6337
Dec7129

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 15, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.07:196:16
Feb11.37:136:33
Mar11.96:526:44
Apr12.46:256:52
May12.96:077:02
Jun13.16:047:13
Jul13.06:127:16
Aug12.76:237:02
Sep12.16:296:36
Oct11.66:376:10
Nov11.16:515:56
Dec10.97:096:00

Sunny days

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

Metepec averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 25. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2219 daysAug 251 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr11Mixed
May6Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
Dec16Bright

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 Metepec, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)
Jan100
Feb100
Mar100
Apr100
May100
Jun100
Jul100
Aug100
Sep100
Oct100
Nov100
Dec100

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 Metepec is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 17 · 8 km/hJul 20 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Metepec

In seasonPeak

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

Metepec's monsoon runs June–September, 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 Metepec

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Metepec 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 Metepec for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to early May, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 23 · 7.3

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
Jan6.6good
Feb7.1good
Mar7.1good
Apr6.6good
May5.6good
Jun4.5fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct5.4fair
Nov6.7good
Dec6.9good

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 Metepec for hot-weather activities is from late February to late May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 4 · 4.7

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 Metepec, 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.

Metepec packs about the same all year — highs hold near 22°C. Across the year the things worth having are a warm layer, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Metepec sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 7°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer and rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Metepec 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 Metepec peaks around March 23 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 highMar 23UV 14Dec 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun15Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Metepec

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 March 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
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.57
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep85.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Metepec 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 Metepec is worst in December — around 79 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyDec 1078 µg/m³Apr 1353 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan67Unhealthy
Feb62Unhealthy
Mar55Poor
Apr52Poor
May57Unhealthy
Jun59Unhealthy
Jul69Unhealthy
Aug65Unhealthy
Sep70Unhealthy
Oct66Unhealthy
Nov77Unhealthy
Dec79Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Metepec is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan950
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec960

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)

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. Metepec banks about 1,100 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan5
Feb45
Mar92
Apr129
May151
Jun146
Jul125
Aug125
Sep120
Oct96
Nov50
Dec16

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.

Metepec receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Feb 10 to Jun 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 87.1 kWhDec 184.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar6.8Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Metepec?

Metepec sits at 19.3°N, 99.6°W, 2,623 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is San Salvador Tizatlalli, 1.0 km away.

Topography around Metepec

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Metepec has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 111 m around an average of 2,618 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 758 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,808 m.

The land around Metepec is covered by artificial surfaces (67%) within 3 km, cropland (43%) and artificial surfaces (32%) within 16 km, and trees (43%) within 80 km.

3 km
111 m
16 km
758 m
80 km
3,808 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: San Salvador Tizatlalli 1.0 km · San Francisco Cuaxusco 2.0 km · San Jerónimo 3.0 km · San Jorge Pueblo Nuevo 3.0 km · Santa María Totoltepec 5.0 km · Toluca 6.0 km · San Pedro Totoltepec 7.0 km · San Mateo Atenco 7.0 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 Metepec (19.2593°, -99.6017°, elevation 2,623 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).