Average Annual Rainfall for Mexico

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The tables below give annual averages for rainfall at cities in Mexico. Each place has a total for days of wet weather and for the amount of rain it gets on average during a year.

The calculation of rainy days only includes days when rainfall totalled 0.004 inches (0.1 millimetres) or more. Most of the precipitation totals are averages of weather data collected from 1971 to 2000. For the cities of Ciudad Juarez, Manzanillo, Mazatlan and Veracruz, the rainfall averages are based on weather recorded from 1951 to 1980.

You can jump to a separate table for different regions of the country: Central Mexico, Pacific Coast, Northern Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula & Gulf Coast.

Central Mexico

Average yearly precipitation
Days City Inches Millimetres
  61 Aguascalientes 18.7   476
108 Cuernavaca 49.8 1266
  87 Guadalajara 38.3   972
162 Jalapa 59.1 1501
  71 Leon 25.8   654
127 Mexico City 32.1   816
107 Morelia 30.4   773
107 Puebla 37.0   940
  61 Queretaro 20.5   521
  59 San Luis Potosi 13.5   342
128 Toluca 27.7   705
129 Villahermosa 79.1 2010

Pacific Coast

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall
Days City Inches Millimetres
  68 Acapulco 50.5 1284
  12 Cabo San Lucas   9.6   245
  73 Huatulco 56.8 1443
  61 Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo 45.9 1165
  67 Manzanillo 38.1   968
  51 Mazatlan 30.6   778
  71 Puerto Vallarta 54.8 1392

Northern Mexico

Average amount of rain and snow a year
Days City Inches Millimetres
  61 Chihuahua 18.8   477
  46 Ciudad Juarez 10.5   268
  50 Culiacan 24.2   615
  37 Hermosillo 14.3   364
  15 Mexicali   3.3     84
  60 Monterrey 25.1   637
  35 Reynosa 17.8   453
  61 Saltillo 14.5   369
  38 Tijuana 10.0   255
  37 Torreon   9.0   228

Yucatan Peninsula & Gulf Coast

Average annual precipitation
Days City Inches Millimetres
115 Cancun 52.7 1338
120 Cozumel 58.7 1490
  85 Merida 41.4 1050
  96 Tampico 45.3 1150
116 Veracruz 69.2 1757
Reference

Comision Nacional Del Agua and World Meteorological Organization. World Weather Information Service - Mexico.

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