Climate and average weather in Yurécuaro

In Yurécuaro, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: late October to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yurécuaro typically varies from 8°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 35°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 Yurécuaro for warm-weather activities is from late October to late March.

Hottest
May
32°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
153 mm
Driest
Apr
5 mm
Rain / yr
639 mm
103 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,586 m
20.3°N
Clearest
Mar
31% cloud

Yurécuaro is municipal seat of Yurécuaro, State of Michoacán, Mexico.

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

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

Temperatures in Yurécuaro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 32°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 25°C.

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

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan258
Feb279
Mar2911
Apr3113
May3215
Jun3017
Jul2716
Aug2716
Sep2715
Oct2714
Nov2711
Dec259

How hot and cold Yurécuaro 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, Yurécuaro feels like about 32°C (around May 17). About 17 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan252578
Feb272799
Mar29291111
Apr31311313
May32321515
Jun30301717
Jul28271616
Aug27271616
Sep27271515
Oct27271414
Nov27271111
Dec252589

Average hourly temperature in Yurécuaro

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Yurécuaro 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
Jan25° / 142.110.98.6
Feb27° / 101.811.38.3
Mar29° / 11°91.111.97.2
Apr31° / 13°51.312.55.6
May32° / 15°235.4134.6
Jun30° / 17°11117.113.24.1
Jul27° / 16°15322.313.14.6
Aug27° / 16°12820.712.74.8
Sep27° / 15°12118.512.15.1
Oct27° / 14°468.311.56.7
Nov27° / 11°142.7118.1
Dec25° / 61.310.88.6

Chance of rain

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

Yurécuaro gets about 639 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 4.6 months, from around May 29 to Oct 15, peaking in July at about 75% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 4.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 153 mm over about 22 wet days; April is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 2 · 75%Dec 4 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb62
Mar41
Apr51
May185
Jun5717
Jul7122
Aug6821
Sep6019
Oct288
Nov93
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yurécuaro collects about 639 mm of rain across 103 wet days — roughly 53 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 153 mm, while April is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1410952311115312812146146
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan142
Feb102
Mar91
Apr51
May235
Jun11117
Jul15322
Aug12821
Sep12119
Oct468
Nov143
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yurécuaro, 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 23 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around June 5. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 6 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 22. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 67% 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 19 · 82%Sep 4 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7723
Mar8119
Apr7426
May7327
Jun4753
Jul3763
Aug3664
Sep3367
Oct5347
Nov7723
Dec7030

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 3, 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)
Jan10.97:326:25
Feb11.37:246:43
Mar11.97:036:54
Apr12.56:357:03
May13.06:177:14
Jun13.26:137:26
Jul13.16:217:28
Aug12.76:327:14
Sep12.16:406:47
Oct11.56:486:20
Nov11.07:046:05
Dec10.87:226:09

Sunny days

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

Yurécuaro averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.3 months, from around Oct 23 to Jun 2. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2221 daysAug 303 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr18Bright
May16Bright
Jun8Mixed
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov19Bright
Dec18Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around June 4 to October 7. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 37% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 8 to June 3, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 25 · 100%Sep 2 · 53%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May86132
Jun284329
Jul55738
Aug65440
Sep154837
Oct52399
Nov9180
Dec10000

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 Yurécuaro is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 10 · 7 km/hJul 23 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Yurécuaro

In seasonPeak

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

Yurécuaro'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 Yurécuaro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Yurécuaro 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 Yurécuaro for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 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
Jan8.6ideal
Feb8.3ideal
Mar7.2good
Apr5.6good
May4.6fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.8fair
Sep5.1fair
Oct6.7good
Nov8.1ideal
Dec8.6ideal

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 Yurécuaro for hot-weather activities is from late October to late May, with a peak score in the third week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 19 · 8.9

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 Yurécuaro, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Yurécuaro sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Yurécuaro 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 Yurécuaro peaks around May 21 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMay 21UV 14Dec 15UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Yurécuaro

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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May97
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct75
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Yurécuaro 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 Yurécuaro is worst in May — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (August, 16 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1031 µg/m³Aug 1316 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yurécuaro 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. Yurécuaro banks about 3,734 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan194
Feb221
Mar303
Apr359
May423
Jun395
Jul358
Aug353
Sep335
Oct325
Nov260
Dec209

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.

Yurécuaro receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Feb 14 to Jun 21. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the April peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 227.5 kWhDec 194.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.5Intense
May7.2Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Yurécuaro?

Yurécuaro sits at 20.3°N, 102.3°W, 1,586 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is La Piedad de Cabadas, 27 km away.

Topography around Yurécuaro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yurécuaro has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 313 m around an average of 1,562 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 667 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,163 m.

The land around Yurécuaro is covered by cropland (46%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, cropland (46%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and cropland (38%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
313 m
16 km
667 m
80 km
2,163 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: La Piedad de Cabadas 27 km · La Barca 28 km · Atotonilco el Alto 33 km · Zamora de Hidalgo 40 km · Arandas 41 km · Jacona de Plancarte 43 km · Jamay 45 km · Ocotlán 51 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 Yurécuaro (20.3395°, -102.2822°, elevation 1,586 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).