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Best time to visit
Tulum.

December leads for comfortable weather in Tulum: typically 29.3°C by day, 17.6°C at night, with 45 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortDecember

Typical high29.3°C

Typical low17.6°C

Rain in December45 mm

Comfort

December

December · January · February

76climate match

Beach

March

March · April · February

91climate match

Outdoors

December

December · February · January

55climate match

The weakest month is October, scoring 39 against December’s 76 — 215 mm of rain falls, and days average 30.7°C, 7° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

7429° / 17.2°

Feb

7429.8° / 17.9°

Mar

6930.8° / 19.6°

Apr

6431.5° / 20.4°

May

5231.6° / 21°

Jun

4331.7° / 21.7°

Jul

4632.2° / 21.2°

Aug

5331.7° / 21.6°

Sep

4231.6° / 21°

Oct

3930.7° / 19.9°

Nov

6830° / 18°

Dec

7629.3° / 17.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Tulum — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 13 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	29°C	17.2°C	59 mm	5.7	26.7°C	11 h 02	74	Good coverage
February	29.8°C	17.9°C	48 mm	3.1	26.5°C	11 h 27	74	Good coverage
March	30.8°C	19.6°C	35 mm	2.9	26.6°C	11 h 59	69	Good coverage
April	31.5°C	20.4°C	45 mm	3.1	27.2°C	12 h 35	64	Good coverage
May	31.6°C	21°C	108 mm	5.1	28.1°C	13 h 05	52	Good coverage
June	31.7°C	21.7°C	145 mm	7.9	28.6°C	13 h 21	43	Good coverage
July	32.2°C	21.2°C	120 mm	7.3	28.9°C	13 h 15	46	Good coverage
August	31.7°C	21.6°C	82 mm	6.6	29.3°C	12 h 49	53	Good coverage
September	31.6°C	21°C	151 mm	9.2	29.4°C	12 h 14	42	Good coverage
October	30.7°C	19.9°C	215 mm	8.9	29.0°C	11 h 39	39	Good coverage
November	30°C	18°C	70 mm	4.7	28.1°C	11 h 09	68	Good coverage
December	29.3°C	17.6°C	45 mm	3.9	27.3°C	10 h 55	76	Good coverage

Records at TULUM, 1964–2012
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.2°C8 Jan 1976	6.7°C2 Jan 1980	120 mm17 Jan 1986	179 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1995	38
February	38.9°C9 Feb 2008	3.9°C10 Feb 1991	100 mm10 Feb 2002	248 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1992	36
March	41.1°C26 Mar 2007	6.7°C6 Mar 1991	75 mm6 Mar 2012	93 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1995	35
April	41.7°C28 Apr 2009	6.7°C29 Apr 1992	70 mm9 Apr 2003	116 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1971	33
May	42.8°C8 May 1980	7.8°C8 May 1992	198 mm19 May 2010	379 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1987	35
June	38.9°C21 Jun 1983	11.1°C24 Jun 1992	150 mm26 Jun 2010	409 mm1988 · driest 8 mm in 1991	35
July	37.8°C19 Jul 1979	8.9°C13 Jul 1975	164 mm18 Jul 2005	416 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1993	38
August	43.9°C20 Aug 1983	11.7°C26 Aug 1988	140 mm20 Aug 1973	367 mm1973 · driest 4 mm in 2009	38
September	40.6°C5 Sep 1988	5.0°C29 Sep 1992	200 mm14 Sep 1988	409 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1993	37
October	38.9°C14 Oct 2005	5.6°C30 Oct 1992	185 mm21 Oct 2005	610 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1994	41
November	39.4°C9 Nov 1970	8.9°C2 Nov 1992	80 mm18 Nov 2010	259 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1991	41
December	36.7°C13 Dec 1976	6.7°C30 Dec 1980	94 mm3 Dec 1985	171 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1974	39

Typical days per month at TULUM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	28	15	2
February	27	18	1
March	28	23	1
April	28	23	1
May	30	25	3
June	29	24	4
July	30	27	3
August	28	23	2
September	28	22	4
October	29	22	5
November	28	19	2
December	28	17	2

How often, not how much — every day in TULUM’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	80%	20%	6%	18%	27.1–30.9°C
February	86%	14%	5%	11%	27.9–31.2°C
March	90%	10%	4%	4%	28.7–32.3°C
April	91%	10%	4%	6%	29.0–33.4°C
May	83%	17%	9%	19%	29.8–33.6°C
June	71%	29%	14%	34%	29.4–33.4°C
July	75%	24%	9%	26%	30.0–33.5°C
August	73%	26%	9%	31%	29.8–33.6°C
September	63%	37%	16%	51%	29.2–33.5°C
October	67%	33%	16%	38%	29.1–32.0°C
November	78%	22%	8%	27%	28.6–31.5°C
December	81%	19%	6%	19%	27.3–30.9°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 2003. Coolest: 1992.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3515040
NOAA station: MXN00023025 · TULUM
Station distance: 1.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 20.21°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 13 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from TULUM is what differs

Ciudad Chemuyil→Akumal→Macario Gómez→Javier Rojo Gómez (Punta Allen)→Grand Palladium→Chunyaxché→

Or put two places side by side: Tulum vs Ciudad Chemuyil

Best time to visitTulum.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Tulum.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.