Climate and average weather in Tantoyuca

In Tantoyuca, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: late October to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tantoyuca typically varies from 15°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 37°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tantoyuca for warm-weather activities is from late October to late March.

Hottest
May
34°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Sep
207 mm
Driest
Feb
39 mm
Rain / yr
1135 mm
139 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
167 m
21.4°N
Clearest
May
56% cloud

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

Founded
1850

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

Tantoyuca 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.1 months, from April 13 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 32°C. The hottest month of the year in Tantoyuca is May, with an average high of 34°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from November 27 to February 13, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Tantoyuca is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2415
Feb2616
Mar2919
Apr3221
May3424
Jun3424
Jul3324
Aug3324
Sep3223
Oct2921
Nov2718
Dec2416

How hot and cold Tantoyuca 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, Tantoyuca feels like about 41°C (around June 7). About 203 days a year carry some heat stress, and 35 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241515
Feb26261616
Mar30291919
Apr35322121
May39342424
Jun40342424
Jul38332424
Aug39332424
Sep36322323
Oct32292121
Nov27271818
Dec24241616

Average hourly temperature in Tantoyuca

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Tantoyuca 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
Jan24° / 15°467.610.87.2
Feb26° / 16°396.311.37.1
Mar29° / 19°446.411.86.1
Apr32° / 21°526.212.54.4
May34° / 24°768.9133.2
Jun34° / 24°14016.513.32.7
Jul33° / 24°13418.613.22.9
Aug33° / 24°12718.912.72.7
Sep32° / 23°20720.212.13.2
Oct29° / 21°1591311.54.9
Nov27° / 18°739.5116.6
Dec24° / 16°397.310.77.2

Chance of rain

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

Tantoyuca gets about 1135 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 4.7 months, from around Jun 1 to Oct 21, peaking in September at about 70% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 27.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 207 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 39 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 5 · 70%Feb 27 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan248
Feb236
Mar206
Apr216
May299
Jun5417
Jul6019
Aug6219
Sep6620
Oct4313
Nov3110
Dec247

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tantoyuca collects about 1135 mm of rain across 139 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 207 mm, while February is the driest at just 39 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec46394452761401341272071597339
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan468
Feb396
Mar446
Apr526
May769
Jun14017
Jul13419
Aug12719
Sep20720
Oct15913
Nov7310
Dec397

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tantoyuca, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 30 and lasts for 1.7 months, ending around June 21. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 54% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 3 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around March 20. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 62% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 2 · 60%Jan 29 · 37%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3862
Feb4159
Mar4555
Apr4852
May5446
Jun5149
Jul4753
Aug4852
Sep4060
Oct4654
Nov4654
Dec4258

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 8, brings about 13 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.87:176:07
Feb11.37:096:26
Mar11.86:476:38
Apr12.56:186:48
May13.05:597:00
Jun13.35:547:12
Jul13.26:037:14
Aug12.76:156:59
Sep12.16:246:31
Oct11.56:336:03
Nov11.06:495:47
Dec10.77:085:50

Sunny days

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

Tantoyuca averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Feb 9 to Jun 17. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 7 sunny days — about 22% fewer than the May peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedMay 3110 daysJul 25 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around March 21 to November 3. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 4 to March 20, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 46% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 9 · 47%May 29 · 0%miserablehumidmuggyoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan2125312210
Feb1419273370
Mar7101839260
Apr151227488
May013115927
Jun00025939
Jul00007524
Aug00017327
Sep00276428
Oct259244912
Nov9102039211
Dec2018273140

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 18 · 7 km/hAug 28 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Tantoyuca

In seasonPeak

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

Tantoyuca's rainy season runs June–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 Tantoyuca

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Tantoyuca 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 Tantoyuca for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 17 · 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
Jan7.2good
Feb7.1good
Mar6.1good
Apr4.4fair
May3.2poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.7poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct4.9fair
Nov6.5good
Dec7.2good

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 Tantoyuca for hot-weather activities run from mid January to late May and again from early October to late December, with a peak score in the third week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 21 · 7.4

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 Tantoyuca, 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 May (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Tantoyuca sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tantoyuca

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 69 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 22°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan22Refreshing
Feb22Refreshing
Mar23Refreshing
Apr25Warm
May27Warm
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov26Warm
Dec24Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Tantoyuca 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 Tantoyuca peaks around June 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highHighJun 19UV 12Dec 20UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb8Very high
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct9Very high
Nov7High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Tantoyuca

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 June 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)
Jan62.5
Feb6.54
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep74.5
Oct74.5
Nov63
Dec5.51.5

Air quality in Tantoyuca 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 Tantoyuca is worst in May — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.9× the cleanest month (October, 23 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 1642 µg/m³Oct 1523 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan29Moderate
Feb30Moderate
Mar31Moderate
Apr36Poor
May43Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug26Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec32Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tantoyuca 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. Tantoyuca banks about 5,497 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan289
Feb309
Mar426
Apr499
May579
Jun570
Jul572
Aug576
Sep523
Oct474
Nov370
Dec310

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.

Tantoyuca receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 22. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 44% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 15.8 kWhDec 263.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.6Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Tantoyuca?

Tantoyuca sits at 21.4°N, 98.2°W, 167 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Huejutla de Reyes, 31 km away.

Topography around Tantoyuca

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tantoyuca has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 208 m around an average of 176 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 316 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,012 m.

The land around Tantoyuca is covered by trees (72%) within 3 km, trees (55%) and grassland (43%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and grassland (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
208 m
16 km
316 m
80 km
2,012 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Huejutla de Reyes 31 km · Cerro Azul 53 km · Naranjos 56 km · Tamazunchale 59 km · Álamo 75 km · Pánuco 78 km · Zacualtipán 90 km · Alto Lucero 92 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 Tantoyuca (21.3506°, -98.2257°, elevation 167 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).