Ideal weather days in Oaxaca
The best time to visit Oaxaca for warm, dry weather is October to January, with 26 to 30 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Oaxaca's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October to January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Oaxaca, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot82
- Too wet50
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
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), Oaxaca averaged 237 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Mexico, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 27 a month, 163 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 3.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 82 a year, mostly in March, April and May. Another 50 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June to September. A day can fail more than one test.
Oaxaca weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30 °C 86 °F | 0 | 0 | 19 | 29 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 89 °F | 0 | 0 | 11 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 34 °C 93 °F | 1 | 0 | 14 | 11 of 31 |
| April | 34 °C 93 °F | 2 | 0 | 13 | 10 of 30 |
| May | 36 °C 96 °F | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 88 °F | 12 | 0 | 3 | 13 of 30 |
| July | 30 °C 86 °F | 10 | 0 | 1 | 23 of 31 |
| August | 30 °C 86 °F | 11 | 0 | 2 | 22 of 31 |
| September | 31 °C 87 °F | 11 | 0 | 1 | 18 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 85 °F | 7 | 0 | 4 | 26 of 31 |
| November | 31 °C 87 °F | 1 | 0 | 11 | 28 of 30 |
| December | 29 °C 83 °F | 1 | 0 | 18 | 30 of 31 |
| Year | 59 | 0 | 105 | 237 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 incomplete (10 of 12 months)
- 2024 198 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Oaxaca for good weather?
The best time to visit Oaxaca for warm, dry weather is October to January, with 26 to 30 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 27 a month, 163 a year). Counted from measured days at Oaxaca Oax. station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Oaxaca?
On average 59 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (12 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Oaxaca get a year?
About 105 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 January (19).
How warm does Oaxaca get?
The median daily high ranged from 29 °C (83 °F) in December to 36 °C (96 °F) in May.
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Source: Oaxaca Oax. weather station (76775099999), 3 km from the centre of Oaxaca, 1518 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 81% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.