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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Colima
Colima climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing3°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation851 mm120 wet days a year
19.24° N, 103.71° WElevation 518 mUTC−6 · Central Standard Time
When to goColima · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Colima has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 36° and nights 20°. September is the coolest month, with highs of 32° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 851 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (191 mm, 30 wet days) and March the driest (3 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 18% in February to 62% in July.
Compared with Mexico City, the capital, Colima is 8.1° warmer on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 36° · May
- Coldest nights
- 16° · February
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- March
- Clearest skies
- February · 18% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 17 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 59 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 32° | 33° | 33° | 35° | 36° | 35° | 34° | 33° | 32° | 33° | 33° | 32° |
| Average low | 17° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 21° | 19° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 27 mm | 10 mm | 3 mm | 2 mm | 13 mm | 119 mm | 196 mm | 191 mm | 184 mm | 79 mm | 17 mm | 10 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 18.5 | 27.2 | 29.7 | 22.8 | 11.7 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Cloud cover | 24% | 18% | 19% | 20% | 21% | 51% | 62% | 60% | 62% | 40% | 24% | 25% |
| Daylight | 11h 06 | 11h 31 | 12h 01 | 12h 35 | 13h 02 | 13h 17 | 13h 11 | 12h 47 | 12h 15 | 11h 43 | 11h 14 | 10h 59 |
| Month score | 68 | 65 | 64 | 58 | 45 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 36 | 64 | 66 |
ivMonth by month
Colima in every month
January68
32° / 17°
27 mm · 0.7 wet day
February65
33° / 16°
10 mm · 0.8 wet day
March64
33° / 17°
3 mm · 0.3 wet days
April58
35° / 18°
2 mm · 0.5 wet day
May45
36° / 20°
13 mm · 5.7 wet days
June18
35° / 21°
119 mm · 18.5 wet days
July17
34° / 21°
196 mm · 27.2 wet days
August19
33° / 21°
191 mm · 29.7 wet days
September24
32° / 22°
184 mm · 22.8 wet days
October36
33° / 21°
79 mm · 11.7 wet days
November64
33° / 19°
17 mm · 1 wet day
December66
32° / 17°
10 mm · 1.5 wet days