Ideal weather days in Albuquerque
The best time to visit Albuquerque for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 20 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Albuquerque's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Albuquerque, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold120
- Too hot78
- Too windy43
- Too wet28
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Albuquerque averaged 132 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May and September (up to 19 a month, 88 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March and November (up to 11 a month, 45 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 120 a year, mostly in November to February. Another 78 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Albuquerque weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 50 °F | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 16 °C 60 °F | 2 | 3 | 13 | 7 of 28 |
| March | 19 °C 66 °F | 4 | 6 | 10 | 14 of 31 |
| April | 24 °C 75 °F | 1 | 7 | 14 | 20 of 30 |
| May | 28 °C 82 °F | 3 | 6 | 9 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 93 °F | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 of 30 |
| July | 36 °C 96 °F | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 of 31 |
| September | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 1 | 13 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 81 °F | 1 | 5 | 19 | 25 of 31 |
| November | 16 °C 60 °F | 5 | 3 | 16 | 9 of 30 |
| December | 14 °C 56 °F | 3 | 1 | 20 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 35 | 43 | 141 | 132 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 133 warm, dry days
- 2024 117 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Albuquerque for good weather?
The best time to visit Albuquerque for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 20 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May and September (up to 19 a month, 88 a year). Counted from measured days at Albuquerque International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Albuquerque?
On average 35 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (5 rain days), the driest October (1).
How many sunny days does Albuquerque get a year?
About 141 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in December (20).
How warm does Albuquerque get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (50 °F) in January to 36 °C (96 °F) in July.
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Source: Albuquerque International Airport weather station (72365023050), 5 km from the centre of Albuquerque, 1618 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.