Climate and average weather in Santiago Papasquiaro

In Santiago Papasquiaro, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early February to early June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Santiago Papasquiaro typically varies from 0°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 30°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Santiago Papasquiaro for warm-weather activities are from early February to early June and early October to mid December.

Hottest
Jun
27°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
177 mm
Driest
Apr
9 mm
Rain / yr
701 mm
94 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,728 m
25.0°N
Clearest
Nov
33% cloud

Santiago Papasquiaro is municipal seat of Papasquiaro, State of Durango, Mexico.

Density
17/km²
people per km²
Founded
1597

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

Santiago Papasquiaro 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 February to early June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.5 months, from April 23 to July 6, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Santiago Papasquiaro is June, with an average high of 27°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from November 29 to February 14, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Santiago Papasquiaro is January, with an average low of 0°C and high of 16°C.

Days typically run about 15°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in April.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan160
Feb182
Mar213
Apr245
May268
Jun2712
Jul2412
Aug2412
Sep2311
Oct228
Nov204
Dec171

How hot and cold Santiago Papasquiaro 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 16), with roughly 99 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan1616-20
Feb1818-12
Mar212103
Apr242435
May262678
Jun27271212
Jul24241212
Aug24241212
Sep23231111
Oct222278
Nov202024
Dec1717-11

Average hourly temperature in Santiago Papasquiaro

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Santiago Papasquiaro 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° / 162.810.66.4
Feb18° / 132.211.17.4
Mar21° / 132.211.88.0
Apr24° / 92.112.68.5
May26° / 224.913.27.8
Jun27° / 12°8111.513.56.5
Jul24° / 12°17720.613.45.4
Aug24° / 12°1562012.95.4
Sep23° / 11°14317.112.25.6
Oct22° / 406.511.47.6
Nov20° / 172.410.87.8
Dec17° / 122.110.56.8

Chance of rain

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

Santiago Papasquiaro gets about 701 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Jun 2 to Oct 10, peaking in July at about 67% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 27.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 177 mm over about 21 wet days; April is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 29 · 67%Mar 27 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb82
Mar72
Apr72
May175
Jun3912
Jul6421
Aug6520
Sep5617
Oct227
Nov82
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Santiago Papasquiaro collects about 701 mm of rain across 94 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 177 mm, while April is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 68% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec16131392281177156143401712
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan163
Feb132
Mar132
Apr92
May225
Jun8112
Jul17721
Aug15620
Sep14317
Oct407
Nov172
Dec122

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Santiago Papasquiaro, 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 December 14 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around June 19. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 20 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around October 3. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 28 · 82%Sep 1 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb7030
Mar7327
Apr7129
May7921
Jun6931
Jul4753
Aug4555
Sep4555
Oct7426
Nov7525
Dec6733

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 17, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.67:536:29
Feb11.17:426:50
Mar11.87:177:06
Apr12.66:447:19
May13.26:217:34
Jun13.56:157:48
Jul13.46:257:50
Aug12.96:397:32
Sep12.26:527:00
Oct11.47:056:29
Nov10.87:246:10
Dec10.57:446:11

Sunny days

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

Santiago Papasquiaro averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.0 months, from around Oct 5 to Jun 3. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is September, down near 8 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the October peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 2720 daysSep 36 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr16Bright
May17Bright
Jun11Mixed
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct18Bright
Nov19Bright
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 Santiago Papasquiaro, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, 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
May1000
Jun8218
Jul5446
Aug5149
Sep6040
Oct946
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 Santiago Papasquiaro is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Dec 2 to May 28. The windiest month is April, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 29 to Dec 1, with July the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeApr 1 · 10 km/hJul 23 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Santiago Papasquiaro

In seasonPeak

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

Santiago Papasquiaro's rainy season runs June–September, 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 Santiago Papasquiaro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid February, Santiago Papasquiaro 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 Santiago Papasquiaro for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to early June and again from early October to mid December, with a peak score in the second week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 11 · 8.6

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
Feb7.3good
Mar8.0ideal
Apr8.5ideal
May7.8ideal
Jun6.5good
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.4fair
Sep5.7good
Oct7.6ideal
Nov7.8ideal
Dec6.8good

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 Santiago Papasquiaro for hot-weather activities is from early April to late June, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 23 · 7.5

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 Santiago Papasquiaro, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 16°C), pack a warm layer and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Santiago Papasquiaro sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 12°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Santiago Papasquiaro 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 Santiago Papasquiaro peaks around May 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighMay 17UV 14Dec 19UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb9Very high
Mar11Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul14Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov7High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Santiago Papasquiaro

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 May the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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)
Jan5.52
Feb74.5
Mar7.55.5
Apr8.56.5
May97
Jun97
Jul8.57
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct74.5
Nov63
Dec5.50
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Santiago Papasquiaro is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 20 to November 15 (241 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2090%Nov 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5531
Feb7228
Mar8821
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov8916
Dec6431

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. Santiago Papasquiaro banks about 1,631 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb7
Mar59
Apr138
May227
Jun281
Jul259
Aug244
Sep210
Oct155
Nov52
Dec0

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.

Santiago Papasquiaro receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Feb 23 to Aug 19. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 97.9 kWhDec 154.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.8Intense
May7.9Intense
Jun7.1Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Santiago Papasquiaro?

Santiago Papasquiaro sits at 25.0°N, 105.4°W, 1,728 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Victoria de Durango, 137 km away.

Pueblo NuevoLa CruzLerdoCuliacánGómez Palacio

Topography around Santiago Papasquiaro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Santiago Papasquiaro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 217 m around an average of 1,765 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,329 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,486 m.

The land around Santiago Papasquiaro is covered by grassland (49%) within 3 km, grassland (36%), shrubs (32%) and trees (26%) within 16 km, and trees (41%) and shrubs (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
217 m
16 km
1,329 m
80 km
2,486 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Victoria de Durango 137 km · El Salto 141 km · Guadalupe Victoria 147 km · Pueblo Nuevo 185 km · La Cruz 194 km · Lerdo 198 km · Culiacán 201 km · Gómez Palacio 202 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 Santiago Papasquiaro (25.0439°, -105.4192°, elevation 1,728 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).