Ideal weather days in Mendoza
The best time to visit Mendoza for warm, dry weather is April, September and October, with 25 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Mendoza's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, September 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 Mendoza, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot74
- Too cold58
- Too wet15
- Too windy6
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), Mendoza averaged 222 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Argentina, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in November and December (up to 21 a month, 113 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May to June and August to September (up to 23 a month, 128 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 74 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 58 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in May to August. A day can fail more than one test.
Mendoza weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35 °C 95 °F | 3 | 0 | 12 | 9 of 31 |
| February | 35 °C 94 °F | 3 | 0 | 15 | 10 of 28 |
| March | 31 °C 88 °F | 3 | 0 | 8 | 22 of 31 |
| April | 25 °C 77 °F | 0 | 0 | 12 | 28 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 68 °F | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 18 °C 64 °F | 0 | 1 | 16 | 15 of 30 |
| July | 17 °C 63 °F | 0 | 0 | 21 | 13 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 67 °F | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20 of 31 |
| September | 24 °C 75 °F | 1 | 1 | 18 | 28 of 30 |
| October | 28 °C 82 °F | 5 | 2 | 14 | 25 of 31 |
| November | 32 °C 89 °F | 0 | 2 | 18 | 19 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 3 | 1 | 16 | 16 of 31 |
| Year | 21 | 6 | 179 | 222 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 230 warm, dry days
- 2024 195 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Mendoza for good weather?
The best time to visit Mendoza for warm, dry weather is April, September and October, with 25 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in November and December (up to 21 a month, 113 a year). Counted from measured days at El Plumerillo station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Mendoza?
On average 21 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (5 rain days), the driest July (0).
How many sunny days does Mendoza get a year?
About 179 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 July (21).
How warm does Mendoza get?
The median daily high ranged from 17 °C (63 °F) in July to 35 °C (95 °F) in January.
Nearby
- Santiago180 km, Chile267 days
- Córdoba470 km219 days
- Buenos Aires980 km216 days
- Curitiba2070 km, Brazil252 days
- Punta Arenas2260 km, Chile4 days
- Ushuaia2440 km14 days
Where is the best climate in Argentina?
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Source: El Plumerillo weather station (87418099999), 7 km from the centre of Mendoza, 704 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.