Climate and average weather in Perote

In Perote, 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 September.

Best: mid November to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Perote typically varies from 6°C to 21°C, and is rarely below 3°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 Perote for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid April.

Hottest
Apr
21°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
194 mm
Driest
Dec
21 mm
Rain / yr
1099 mm
174 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,416 m
19.6°N
Clearest
Feb
46% cloud

Perote is municipal seat of Perote, State of Veracruz, Mexico.

Founded
1525

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

Perote 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 Perote, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Perote stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 21°C and low of 11°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 16°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan166
Feb187
Mar209
Apr2111
May2112
Jun2012
Jul2011
Aug2011
Sep1911
Oct1810
Nov178
Dec177

Average hourly temperature in Perote

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Perote 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
Jan16° / 246.5115.8
Feb18° / 266.911.36.5
Mar20° / 5312.611.96.2
Apr21° / 11°9717.512.45.5
May21° / 12°11320.212.95.0
Jun20° / 12°15220.813.24.6
Jul20° / 11°10016.113.15.2
Aug20° / 11°12919.212.74.9
Sep19° / 11°1942212.14.2
Oct18° / 10°13416.111.55.0
Nov17° / 5510.211.15.6
Dec17° / 215.910.85.9

Chance of rain

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

Perote gets about 1099 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 Mar 26 to Oct 19, peaking in September at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 8.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 194 mm over about 22 wet days; December is the driest, with 21 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 10 · 74%Dec 8 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan217
Feb257
Mar4013
Apr5818
May6620
Jun6821
Jul5516
Aug6119
Sep7222
Oct5316
Nov3310
Dec206

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Perote collects about 1099 mm of rain across 174 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 194 mm, while December is the driest at just 21 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec242653971131521001291941345521
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan247
Feb267
Mar5313
Apr9718
May11320
Jun15221
Jul10016
Aug12919
Sep19422
Oct13416
Nov5510
Dec216

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Perote, 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 13 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 25. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 26 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around November 12. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% 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 25 · 72%Sep 19 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb6634
Mar6733
Apr6139
May5050
Jun3268
Jul3466
Aug3268
Sep1783
Oct3268
Nov4951
Dec5842

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 10, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan11.07:106:06
Feb11.37:036:24
Mar11.96:436:34
Apr12.46:166:43
May12.95:586:53
Jun13.25:547:04
Jul13.16:027:07
Aug12.76:136:53
Sep12.16:206:27
Oct11.56:286:00
Nov11.16:425:46
Dec10.87:005:50

Sunny days

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

Perote 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 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.5 months, from around Nov 13 to Apr 28. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 2 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 2316 daysSep 172 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov9Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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 Perote, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr973
May8614
Jun7327
Jul919
Aug8614
Sep7426
Oct8713
Nov991
Dec1000

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 Perote is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 17 · 7 km/hMay 22 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Perote

In seasonPeak

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

Perote's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Perote

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Perote 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 Perote for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 6.8

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
Jan5.8good
Feb6.5good
Mar6.2good
Apr5.5fair
May5.0fair
Jun4.6fair
Jul5.2fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct5.0fair
Nov5.6good
Dec5.9good

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 Perote for hot-weather activities run from late February to early June and again from late July to mid August, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 3 · 3.5

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 Perote, 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.

Perote packs about the same all year — highs hold near 21°C. Across the year the things worth having are rain gear, sun protection and a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Perote sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Perote 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 Perote peaks around April 12 at about 14 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highApr 12UV 14Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May9Very high
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Perote

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 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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May7.55
Jun97
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54
Dec63.5

Air quality in Perote 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 Perote is worst in May — around 69 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.9× the cleanest month (October, 38 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyMay 1268 µg/m³Oct 1138 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan53Poor
Feb54Poor
Mar56Unhealthy
Apr63Unhealthy
May69Unhealthy
Jun48Poor
Jul41Poor
Aug38Poor
Sep39Poor
Oct38Poor
Nov49Poor
Dec59Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Perote 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. Perote banks about 1,544 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan41
Feb79
Mar138
Apr176
May192
Jun176
Jul163
Aug168
Sep156
Oct127
Nov77
Dec51

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.

Perote receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Feb 23 to Sep 5. The brightest month is May, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 46.3 kWhDec 234.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.2Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul6.0Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Perote?

Perote sits at 19.6°N, 97.2°W, 2,416 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Altotonga, 23 km away.

Topography around Perote

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Perote has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 355 m around an average of 2,442 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,643 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,558 m.

The land around Perote is covered by grassland (35%), artificial surfaces (22%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, grassland (29%), trees (28%) and cropland (28%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
355 m
16 km
2,643 m
80 km
5,558 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Altotonga 23 km · Xico 29 km · Teziutlan 31 km · Coatepec 32 km · Banderilla 32 km · Xalapa de Enríquez 34 km · Zaragoza 40 km · Tlapacoyan 45 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 Perote (19.5623°, -97.2424°, elevation 2,416 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).