Climate and average weather in San Isidro

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

Best: early January to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in San Isidro typically varies from 5°C to 23°C, and is rarely below 1°C or above 27°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit San Isidro for warm-weather activities are from early January to late May and late October to late December.

Hottest
May
23°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
345 mm
Driest
Dec
12 mm
Rain / yr
1540 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,259 m
19.3°N
Clearest
Feb
35% cloud

San Isidro 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 May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in San Isidro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 23°C and low of 10°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan195
Feb206
Mar228
Apr239
May2310
Jun2211
Jul2010
Aug2010
Sep2011
Oct209
Nov196
Dec195

Average hourly temperature in San Isidro

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

San Isidro 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° / 193.4117.3
Feb20° / 173.511.37.8
Mar22° / 225.211.97.8
Apr23° / 406.912.47.5
May23° / 10°7912.512.96.6
Jun22° / 11°24320.113.14.9
Jul20° / 10°34527133.8
Aug20° / 10°33726.512.73.8
Sep20° / 11°27323.612.14.1
Oct20° / 1201411.65.6
Nov19° / 355.711.17.0
Dec19° / 122.210.97.5

Chance of rain

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

San Isidro gets about 1540 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.9 months, from around May 26 to Oct 20, peaking in July at about 88% 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 345 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 6 · 88%Dec 12 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan113
Feb134
Mar165
Apr247
May4013
Jun6720
Jul8727
Aug8627
Sep7724
Oct4614
Nov196
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Isidro collects about 1540 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 128 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 345 mm, while December is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec19172240792433453372731203512
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan193
Feb174
Mar225
Apr407
May7913
Jun24320
Jul34527
Aug33727
Sep27324
Oct12014
Nov356
Dec122

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In San Isidro, 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 29 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 27. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 28 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 28. 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 · 83%Sep 4 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb7723
Mar7921
Apr7129
May5842
Jun2872
Jul1981
Aug1882
Sep1783
Oct3763
Nov6535
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 14, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan11.07:176:14
Feb11.37:106:31
Mar11.96:506:41
Apr12.46:236:49
May12.96:056:59
Jun13.16:017:11
Jul13.06:107:13
Aug12.76:207:00
Sep12.16:276:33
Oct11.66:346:07
Nov11.16:495:53
Dec10.97:075:57

Sunny days

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

San Isidro averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.0 months, from around Oct 31 to May 2. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2320 daysAug 281 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr13Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun4Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov14Mixed
Dec17Bright

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 San Isidro, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, 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
Apr1000
May991
Jun9010
Jul946
Aug928
Sep8812
Oct964
Nov1000
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in San Isidro is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Nov 20 to May 14. The windiest month is March, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 15 to Oct 17, with July the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 16 · 8 km/hJul 17 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for San Isidro

In seasonPeak

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

San Isidro'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 San Isidro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 23 · 8.0

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
Jan7.3good
Feb7.7ideal
Mar7.8ideal
Apr7.5ideal
May6.6good
Jun4.9fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct5.6good
Nov7.0good
Dec7.5ideal

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 San Isidro 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 5 · 6.1

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 San Isidro, 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.

San Isidro packs about the same all year — highs hold near 23°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, San Isidro sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 10°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in San Isidro 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 San Isidro peaks around April 10 at about 15 (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 highApr 10UV 15Dec 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in San Isidro

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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May8.56
Jun8.57
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec6.54

Air quality in San Isidro 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 San Isidro is worst in December — around 179 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyVery unhealthyDec 11178 µg/m³Apr 14115 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan149Unhealthy
Feb141Unhealthy
Mar126Unhealthy
Apr113Unhealthy
May134Unhealthy
Jun126Unhealthy
Jul135Unhealthy
Aug127Unhealthy
Sep136Unhealthy
Oct137Unhealthy
Nov174Very unhealthy
Dec179Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

San Isidro 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
Jan980
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec990

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. San Isidro banks about 1,641 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)
Jan47
Feb90
Mar149
Apr186
May213
Jun195
Jul165
Aug165
Sep157
Oct133
Nov86
Dec55

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.

San Isidro receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Feb 11 to Jun 20. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 66.9 kWhDec 204.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is San Isidro?

San Isidro sits at 19.3°N, 99.0°W, 2,259 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Emiliano Zapata, 3.0 km away.

Topography around San Isidro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Isidro has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 473 m around an average of 2,316 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 550 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,473 m.

The land around San Isidro is covered by artificial surfaces (69%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (50%) within 16 km, and trees (32%) and cropland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
473 m
16 km
550 m
80 km
4,473 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Emiliano Zapata 3.0 km · Magdalena Atlicpac 3.0 km · Los Reyes Acaquilpan 4.0 km · Ixtapaluca 8.0 km · Xico 8.0 km · Tláhuac 8.0 km · Santa María Chimalhuacán 9.0 km · San Francisco Acuautla 9.0 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 San Isidro (19.3397°, -98.9506°, elevation 2,259 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).