Climate and average weather in Suchiapa

In Suchiapa, the weather is sweltering, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: early November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Suchiapa typically varies from 17°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 37°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Suchiapa for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and early November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
34°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Sep
230 mm
Driest
Feb
2 mm
Rain / yr
1076 mm
146 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
457 m
16.6°N
Clearest
Feb
24% cloud

Suchiapa is municipal seat of Suchiapa, State of Chiapas, Mexico.

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

Suchiapa 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 November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Suchiapa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 34°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 17°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2917
Feb3118
Mar3319
Apr3421
May3322
Jun3122
Jul3121
Aug3121
Sep3021
Oct2920
Nov2919
Dec2917

How hot and cold Suchiapa 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, Suchiapa feels like about 35°C (around May 6). About 180 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291717
Feb31311818
Mar33331919
Apr34342121
May35332222
Jun33312222
Jul33312121
Aug33312121
Sep32302121
Oct31292020
Nov30291919
Dec29291717

Average hourly temperature in Suchiapa

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 17°C.

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

Suchiapa 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
Jan29° / 17°30.911.17.3
Feb31° / 18°20.511.46.2
Mar33° / 19°41.211.94.9
Apr34° / 21°194.612.43.7
May33° / 22°9515.612.83.1
Jun31° / 22°21824.7132.9
Jul31° / 21°14823.812.93.1
Aug31° / 21°1852512.63.0
Sep30° / 21°23026.712.13.1
Oct29° / 20°13116.911.64.6
Nov29° / 19°345.111.26.4
Dec29° / 17°70.8117.4

Chance of rain

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

Suchiapa gets about 1076 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 5.6 months, from around May 8 to Oct 24, peaking in September at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 9.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 230 mm over about 27 wet days; February is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 5 · 88%Feb 9 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb21
Mar41
Apr165
May5016
Jun8125
Jul7724
Aug8125
Sep8727
Oct5617
Nov175
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Suchiapa collects about 1076 mm of rain across 146 wet days — roughly 90 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 230 mm, while February is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3241995218148185230131347
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan31
Feb21
Mar41
Apr195
May9516
Jun21825
Jul14824
Aug18525
Sep23027
Oct13117
Nov345
Dec71

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Suchiapa, 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 31 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 14. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 15 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 30. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 4 · 92%Sep 18 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb928
Mar919
Apr8317
May5545
Jun2377
Jul2872
Aug2476
Sep1684
Oct3763
Nov7228
Dec8416

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 7, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:485:55
Feb11.46:446:10
Mar11.96:266:19
Apr12.46:016:24
May12.85:456:32
Jun13.05:436:42
Jul12.95:516:45
Aug12.66:006:33
Sep12.16:046:09
Oct11.66:095:46
Nov11.26:215:34
Dec11.06:385:39

Sunny days

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

Suchiapa averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.1 months, from around Nov 4 to May 7. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is September, down near 2 sunny days — about 93% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2825 daysSep 171 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr19Bright
May10Mixed
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov16Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Suchiapa, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around April 20 to November 20. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 21 to April 19, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 49% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 54%Jun 6 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan12374740
Feb11394730
Mar93249100
Apr31741380
May0317738
Jun0027424
Jul0018118
Aug0008218
Sep0017524
Oct02136916
Nov21337462
Dec62552170

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 Suchiapa is typically calm, near 5 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 19 to May 8. The windiest month is March, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 9 to Oct 18, with June the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmMar 10 · 7 km/hJun 22 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Suchiapa

In seasonPeak

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

Suchiapa's monsoon runs June–October, 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 Suchiapa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Suchiapa 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 Suchiapa for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 7.5

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
Feb6.2good
Mar4.8fair
Apr3.7fair
May3.1poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct4.5fair
Nov6.4good
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 time of year to visit Suchiapa for hot-weather activities is from early November to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 22 · 9.1

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 Suchiapa, 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.

Suchiapa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Suchiapa sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Suchiapa 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 Suchiapa peaks around April 11 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 highExtremeVery highApr 11UV 14Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Suchiapa

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
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Suchiapa 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 Suchiapa is worst in April — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.1× the cleanest month (December, 12 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 2337 µg/m³Dec 1612 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr38Poor
May37Poor
Jun21Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Suchiapa 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. Suchiapa banks about 5,553 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan397
Feb398
Mar493
Apr525
May540
Jun485
Jul494
Aug494
Sep460
Oct453
Nov412
Dec403

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.

Suchiapa receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Feb 9 to Jun 12. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 116.7 kWhOct 44.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Suchiapa?

Suchiapa sits at 16.6°N, 93.1°W, 457 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Chiapas, 13 km away.

Topography around Suchiapa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Suchiapa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 225 m around an average of 469 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 989 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,772 m.

The land around Suchiapa is covered by grassland (45%) and shrubs (22%) within 3 km, grassland (35%) and trees (34%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and grassland (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
225 m
16 km
989 m
80 km
2,772 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Chiapas 13 km · Tuxtla 14 km · Berriozábal 27 km · Ocozocoautla de Espinosa 33 km · Villaflores 47 km · San Cristóbal de las Casas 50 km · Venustiano Carranza 65 km · Cintalapa de Figueroa 66 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 Suchiapa (16.6247°, -93.0989°, elevation 457 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).