Mexico · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Puerto Vallarta.

January leads for comfortable weather in Puerto Vallarta: typically 25.7°C by day, 12.8°C at night, with 34 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high25.7°C

Typical low12.8°C

Rain in January34 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · March

90climate match

Beach

May

May · November · April

88climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · March

78climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 5 against January’s 90 — 419 mm of rain falls.

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

9025.7° / 12.8°

Feb

8926° / 12.7°

Mar

8926.2° / 13.1°

Apr

8827.2° / 14.4°

May

8128.7° / 17.1°

Jun

3529.4° / 20.6°

Jul

930.1° / 20.7°

Aug

530.5° / 20.6°

Sep

530.4° / 20.7°

Oct

5330.3° / 19.6°

Nov

8129.1° / 16.5°

Dec

8926.6° / 13.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Puerto Vallarta — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 15 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	25.7°C	12.8°C	34 mm	1.8	25.2°C	11 h 00	90	Good coverage
February	26°C	12.7°C	12 mm	0.9	24.4°C	11 h 26	89	Good coverage
March	26.2°C	13.1°C	4 mm	0.5	24.0°C	11 h 58	89	Good coverage
April	27.2°C	14.4°C	5 mm	0.5	24.5°C	12 h 36	88	Good coverage
May	28.7°C	17.1°C	10 mm	1.1	26.3°C	13 h 06	81	Good coverage
June	29.4°C	20.6°C	241 mm	12.3	28.0°C	13 h 22	35	Good coverage
July	30.1°C	20.7°C	379 mm	17.2	29.7°C	13 h 16	9	Good coverage
August	30.5°C	20.6°C	419 mm	18.5	30.1°C	12 h 50	5	Good coverage
September	30.4°C	20.7°C	441 mm	18	29.8°C	12 h 14	5	Good coverage
October	30.3°C	19.6°C	129 mm	8.1	29.7°C	11 h 38	53	Good coverage
November	29.1°C	16.5°C	25 mm	1.5	28.1°C	11 h 08	81	Good coverage
December	26.6°C	13.8°C	18 mm	0.9	26.1°C	10 h 53	89	Good coverage

Records at EL CUALE, 1980–2012
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	32.2°C14 Jan 2000	6.1°C11 Jan 1997	91 mm24 Jan 1992	330 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1996	30
February	32.8°C18 Feb 1993	6.7°C17 Feb 1983	95 mm12 Feb 2002	104 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 2000	30
March	32.2°C21 Mar 1986	4.4°C3 Mar 1993	27 mm21 Mar 1997	28 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1982	30
April	36.1°C11 Apr 1996	7.8°C3 Apr 1987	37 mm3 Apr 1997	81 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2009	30
May	35.0°C16 May 1987	11.1°C21 May 2000	119 mm26 May 1983	217 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1988	30
June	35.6°C24 Jun 1987	13.9°C7 Jun 1995	124 mm30 Jun 1992	512 mm2009 · driest 35 mm in 1987	30
July	35.0°C24 Jul 1983	15.0°C14 Jul 1980	241 mm1 Jul 1998	556 mm1998 · driest 179 mm in 1997	30
August	35.0°C21 Aug 1997	16.7°C8 Aug 1980	205 mm22 Aug 2007	694 mm2007 · driest 131 mm in 1997	30
September	34.4°C22 Sep 2011	16.7°C29 Sep 1980	243 mm16 Sep 1998	1074 mm1995 · driest 118 mm in 1991	30
October	35.0°C4 Oct 2011	10.0°C31 Oct 1995	135 mm24 Oct 1981	242 mm1986 · driest 2 mm in 1987	30
November	36.1°C29 Nov 1996	10.0°C27 Nov 1980	96 mm16 Nov 1994	135 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 2005	30
December	31.1°C4 Dec 2006	9.4°C28 Dec 1995	118 mm19 Dec 1991	136 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1983	30

Typical days per month at EL CUALE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	24	<1	<1
February	23	<1	<1
March	27	1	<1
April	29	4	<1
May	31	10	<1
June	29	16	6
July	31	23	9
August	31	26	11
September	30	24	10
October	31	25	4
November	30	13	<1
December	27	1	<1

How often, not how much — every day in EL CUALE’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%	7%	24.3–26.9°C
February	97%	3%	<1%	<1%	24.8–27.1°C
March	98%	2%	<1%	0%	25.0–27.3°C
April	98%	2%	<1%	0%	26.1–28.5°C
May	96%	4%	1%	6%	27.5–29.7°C
June	59%	41%	19%	62%	28.0–30.6°C
July	44%	56%	29%	82%	29.4–31.0°C
August	42%	58%	31%	83%	29.9–32.0°C
September	41%	59%	31%	81%	29.4–31.9°C
October	76%	24%	10%	24%	29.4–31.2°C
November	95%	5%	2%	2%	28.2–29.5°C
December	95%	5%	2%	4%	25.4–27.5°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.

1981Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 28-year average. Warmest: 2011. Coolest: 1988.2011

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3991328
NOAA station: MXN00014339 · EL CUALE
Station distance: 4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 20.62°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 15 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 EL CUALE is what differs

Boca Mismaloya→Yelapa→Boca de Tomatlán→Las Juntas y los Veranos→Quimixto→El Nogalito→

Or put two places side by side: Puerto Vallarta vs Boca Mismaloya

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January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Puerto Vallarta.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.