Mexico · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Santa Cruz.

January leads for comfortable weather in Santa Cruz: typically 30.6°C by day, 16.5°C at night, with 25 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high30.6°C

Typical low16.5°C

Rain in January25 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · December

75climate match

Beach

November

November · December · May

87climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · December

56climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 5 against January’s 75 — 344 mm of rain falls, and days average 34.5°C, 11° 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

7530.6° / 16.5°

Feb

7331.3° / 16.5°

Mar

6832.6° / 17.1°

Apr

6233.5° / 18.6°

May

5634.2° / 20.6°

Jun

4035.1° / 23.7°

Jul

1134.7° / 24.2°

Aug

534.5° / 24.5°

Sep

534.5° / 24.6°

Oct

3434.8° / 24°

Nov

5933.1° / 20.8°

Dec

7230.9° / 17.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Santa Cruz — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 12 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30.6°C	16.5°C	25 mm	1.5	24.6°C	10 h 55	75	Good coverage
February	31.3°C	16.5°C	15 mm	1.2	24.0°C	11 h 23	73	Good coverage
March	32.6°C	17.1°C	1 mm	0.2	23.8°C	11 h 58	68	Good coverage
April	33.5°C	18.6°C	1 mm	0.1	24.5°C	12 h 38	62	Good coverage
May	34.2°C	20.6°C	0 mm	0.1	26.6°C	13 h 11	56	Good coverage
June	35.1°C	23.7°C	84 mm	4.1	28.4°C	13 h 28	40	Good coverage
July	34.7°C	24.2°C	242 mm	11.8	29.8°C	13 h 21	11	Good coverage
August	34.5°C	24.5°C	344 mm	15.9	30.4°C	12 h 53	5	Good coverage
September	34.5°C	24.6°C	302 mm	13.3	30.2°C	12 h 15	5	Good coverage
October	34.8°C	24°C	120 mm	5.6	30.0°C	11 h 36	34	Good coverage
November	33.1°C	20.8°C	34 mm	1.2	28.2°C	11 h 03	59	Good coverage
December	30.9°C	17.7°C	11 mm	1.2	25.8°C	10 h 48	72	Good coverage

Records at MEXCALTITAN, 1970–2013
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.8°C30 Jan 2012	1.7°C19 Jan 1988	79 mm12 Jan 1987	406 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1989	43
February	38.9°C18 Feb 2005	3.9°C21 Feb 1990	55 mm25 Feb 1987	123 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1981	42
March	40.0°C30 Mar 2013	5.6°C11 Mar 1988	15 mm21 Mar 1997	16 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1984	43
April	37.8°C8 Apr 2011	7.2°C2 Apr 1987	13 mm13 Apr 1997	20 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1975	43
May	39.4°C27 May 1972	9.4°C2 May 1987	55 mm27 May 1983	96 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1977	43
June	40.6°C30 Jun 2006	12.8°C3 Jun 1988	142 mm28 Jun 2000	319 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1983	37
July	40.6°C29 Jul 2012	15.0°C16 Jul 1992	180 mm14 Jul 1978	696 mm2008 · driest 81 mm in 2001	39
August	40.6°C10 Aug 2012	15.6°C1 Aug 1986	240 mm4 Aug 1998	664 mm2010 · driest 55 mm in 1982	43
September	40.6°C14 Sep 2013	13.9°C28 Sep 1989	188 mm16 Sep 2013	650 mm1998 · driest 87 mm in 1994	43
October	41.7°C1 Oct 1995	12.2°C30 Oct 1986	160 mm26 Oct 2002	376 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1995	43
November	39.4°C8 Nov 1978	10.0°C29 Nov 1986	136 mm23 Nov 1972	270 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1978	41
December	38.9°C1 Dec 2004	5.0°C23 Dec 1986	95 mm24 Dec 1976	132 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2004	42

Typical days per month at MEXCALTITAN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	22	<1
February	28	23	<1
March	31	29	0
April	30	29	0
May	31	31	0
June	30	30	2
July	31	31	7
August	31	31	9
September	30	30	8
October	31	31	3
November	30	28	<1
December	31	24	<1

How often, not how much — every day in MEXCALTITAN’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	94%	6%	3%	6%	27.1–32.9°C
February	96%	5%	1%	3%	28.0–32.6°C
March	100%	<1%	<1%	<1%	28.8–33.9°C
April	100%	<1%	<1%	<1%	30.0–34.6°C
May	99%	<1%	<1%	<1%	31.0–35.2°C
June	83%	17%	8%	28%	31.3–35.9°C
July	55%	45%	24%	65%	29.5–36.0°C
August	48%	53%	27%	75%	30.3–35.7°C
September	53%	47%	26%	59%	30.7–35.6°C
October	83%	17%	8%	16%	31.0–36.2°C
November	96%	5%	3%	4%	29.8–35.1°C
December	95%	5%	1%	4%	27.2–32.6°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.

1971Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 31-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1987.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3984515
NOAA station: MXN00018022 · MEXCALTITAN
Station distance: 16.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 21.98°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 12 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 MEXCALTITAN is what differs

Palma Grande→Unión de Corrientes→La Higuerita→San Andrés→La Boquita→Los Corchos→

Or put two places side by side: Santa Cruz vs Palma Grande

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January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Santa Cruz.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.