Colima weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
Colima is warm in every month of the year; the seasonal dip amounts to just 4.2°C. Rainfall is strongly seasonal: the bulk of the year's rain falls between June and October. Colima weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
−3.7°Chigh well below average
How it's changed
+1.7°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–49294days above 30°C a year now (2016–2025) · 191 in the 1940sdays above 30°C · 191 in the 1940s+1.7°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 22 mmhigh 30°low 16°February, rain 9 mmhigh 31°low 16°March, rain 8 mmhigh 32°low 16°April, rain 3 mmhigh 33°low 18°May, rain 21 mmhigh 34°low 20°June, rain 186 mmhigh 31°low 21°July, rain 189 mmhigh 30°low 21°August, rain 198 mmhigh 30°low 21°September, rain 230 mmhigh 29°low 21°October, rain 123 mmhigh 30°low 20°November, rain 26 mmhigh 30°low 18°December, rain 12 mmhigh 30°low 17°wettest month September, 230 mm · 1,028 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
23.0°
On this date: October 11
High well below average · −3.7°C
- Record high: 33.2° · 2022
- Record low: 16.5° · 1974
- One year ago: 32° / 22°
Every October 11 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 11 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Colima is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 19.24°N, 103.71°W, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 19.24°N, 103.71°W
- Time zone
- America/Mexico City
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
29 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +2.3°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
The warmest month is May, with typical afternoon highs of 33.6°C and nights around 19.7°C. The coolest month is January, when afternoons reach about 29.8°C and overnight lows sit around 15.6°C.
The yearly total for Colima comes to about 1,028 mm; monthly amounts range from 3 mm in April up to 230 mm in September.
The record here starts in 1940, and since then the annual mean in Colima has climbed 1.7°C from the first ten years to the last ten. The count of days past 30°C has risen from roughly 190 a year to 295 between the record's first and last decades.
Climate graph (climograph)
May is the warmest month, January the coolest: a yearly swing of 4°C. Wettest month: September (~230 mm). Whole year averages ~1,028 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Colima month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.8° | 15.6° | 22 mm | 11.0 h | 35.5° (1988) | 7.7° (1997) |
| February | 30.8° | 15.8° | 9 mm | 11.4 h | 36.7° (1999) | 8.6° (1986) |
| March | 32.1° | 16.2° | 8 mm | 11.9 h | 37.6° (2004) | 9.7° (2008) |
| April | 33.3° | 17.6° | 3 mm | 12.4 h | 37.9° (1999) | 11.9° (1951) |
| May | 33.6° | 19.7° | 21 mm | 12.9 h | 38.7° (1997) | 12.0° (1979) |
| June | 31.2° | 21.5° | 186 mm | 13.2 h | 37.7° (1980) | 14.6° (1986) |
| July | 30.1° | 21.2° | 189 mm | 13.1 h | 35.8° (2019) | 17.4° (1956) |
| August | 29.8° | 21.1° | 198 mm | 12.7 h | 35.3° (2000) | 17.2° (1946) |
| September | 29.2° | 20.9° | 230 mm | 12.1 h | 34.9° (1994) | 16.5° (1979) |
| October | 29.5° | 20.3° | 123 mm | 11.5 h | 35.7° (2015) | 11.9° (2003) |
| November | 29.9° | 18.3° | 26 mm | 11.1 h | 36.0° (1982) | 11.7° (2001) |
| December | 29.8° | 16.6° | 12 mm | 10.8 h | 35.2° (2000) | 8.8° (1999) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +1.7°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.23°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Sep–Nov is warming fastest: +0.29°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 191.0 early in the record → 293.9 recently. Frost days: 0 → 0.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1997, all-time low in 1997: 38.7°C / 7.7°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~1,028 mm/year on average. Last decade: +6% vs that average. Long-term trend: +31 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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